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Andrew Candelaresi

Longmont,CO

Summary

Results-driven Senior Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in front-end development, specialized in Vue and React. Proven expertise in JavaScript, Node.js, CI/CD, and Git. Proven track record of leading teams, mentoring, and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. I'm excited to contribute to Salesforce's Engineering team by applying my technical skills and innovative solutions.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Communify Fincentric
Boulder, Colorado
09.2018 - Current
  • Designed, built, and deployed several highly available “Stock Screener” applications leveraged by over 4000 financial advisors at Merrill Lynch to discover, analyze, and inform clients about investment funds.
  • Developed engineering and system design documentation based on product specs and UI/UX designs.
  • Led the development of a project with a team of 6 engineers over 6 months to build the application leveraging Node, Caddy, and React with Redux. Ensuring ADA compliance as well as responsive mobile support.
  • Met with clients and stakeholders to provide regular demos, communicate clear answers to questions, and gather product feedback.
  • Wrote automated unit and integration tests in Jest and TestCafe, resulting in 70% test coverage metrics. Integrated automated tests into Jenkins CI/CD builds to ensure seamless deployment.
  • Mentored teammates in delivering high-quality code through code reviews and pair programming.
  • Converted design documentation into prioritized tickets to work split among the team and work on in parallel. Audited dependencies for security vulnerabilities and deprecated features.
  • Rebuilt legacy ASP Classic applications with over 10,000 views per day into a modern tech stack, including Vue with Webpack, all with zero downtime. Allowing for deployment to Docker containers.
  • Monitored live systems, including participating in on-call schedules as well as triaging and fixing bugs in production.
  • Implemented Git versioning strategy to accommodate shifting priorities/feature sets for client releases.

R&D Software Engineer

Medtronic
Boulder, CO
06.2016 - 09.2018
  • Worked on improving reliability for a C# application called Vital Sync Patient Monitoring, which aggregated metrics from medical devices in a hospital to provide a centralized display to nurses.
  • Addressed a critical issue where a connection drop would crash the application by implementing a graceful degradation and retry strategy.
  • Used D3.js to build charts from streaming data from local devices.
  • Collaborated with manual QA to automate tests and improve overall coverage by 15%.
  • Built Python scripts to provision mocked devices and install the application for test execution.
  • Optimized SQL queries to reduce load on the database.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
05-2018

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Fine Arts

Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
05-2011

Skills

  • CI/CD practices
  • REST APIs
  • Vite
  • Full stack development
  • Software architecture
  • Automated testing
  • CI/CD practices
  • REST APIs
  • Vite
  • Full stack development
  • Software architecture
  • Automated testing

Affiliations

  • climbing, cycling, guitar, painting

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Communify Fincentric
09.2018 - Current

R&D Software Engineer

Medtronic
06.2016 - 09.2018

Master of Science - Computer Science

Boulder, Colorado

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Fine Arts

Cincinnati, Ohio

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