Cindy Alvarado
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Dynamic Principal Software Development Engineer at CodeMettle, recognized for architecting a company-wide component library, and enhancing frontend architecture. Proficient in React and TypeScript, I excel in mentoring teams, building beautiful and performant frontends, and driving significant improvements in user experience and project efficiency.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
1
1
Degree
Work History
Principal Software Development Engineer
CodeMettle
Sandy Springs, GA
07.2024 - Current
- Responsible for creating a cohesive, user centric, and performant interface for multiple projects within the company.
- Responsible for setting the standard on style, and best practices, for all things frontend with n the company.
- A company leader and mentor, educating peers and sharing knowledge to build bullet proof UI’s.
Manager of Software Development Engineering
CodeMettle
Sandy Springs, GA
07.2022 - 07.2024
- Essential decision maker on frontend tooling, team structure, processes, and best practices with a focus on cost and implementation time reduction.
- Continuous and consistent feedback loops with direct reports.
- Find ways for direct reports to improve, show strengths and give guidance in career paths.
- Interview process improvements to define guidelines for hiring managers when screening candidates.
- Product owner for internal component library responsible for its evolution and overall success.
- Mitigating risk and identifying areas of improvement in products.
- Process improvements to move to an automated workflow increasing efficiency in projects.
- Task delegation within team.
- Robust requirement definition to hand off to developers for delivery.
- Release management utilizing semantic versioning fundamentals.
- Engage in day-to-day code writing by contributing with small features, identified bugs, and pipeline updates.
- Code reviews.
- Documentation for newly adopted features, processes, and workflows.
- Planning of product roadmap.
Lead Software Development Engineer
CodeMettle
Sandy Springs, GA
03.2021 - 06.2022
- Responsible for leadership, training, and mentoring of peers, and the implementation of reliable, scalable, and maintainable code.
- Architected and successfully launched a company-wide utilized component library.
- Mentoring of peers via code pairing sessions, team huddles, and one on one interaction.
- Responsible for ideation and implementation of robust, scalable, maintainable, reliant frontend components.
- Works hand in hand with product owners to successfully plan out features and avoid possible pitfalls.
- Active and essential team player who guides with can do attitude.
- Context specific skills, tools, and languages include React 17, MUI, Typescript, Storybook, frontend architecture, functional programming, immutability, Jest/enzyme unit testing, persistent layer integration, servant leadership.
- Build: Node.js, NPM, Rollup, CI/CD pipelines, YML, various workflow optimization utilities.
Lead Application UX/UI Developer
Elavon
Atlanta, GA
04.2019 - 03.2021
- Frontend UI Lead for client-facing Customer Onboarding Application and internal Admin Console Application.
- Lead for A11y accessibility initiative.
- Successful completion of accessibility overhaul in three company projects within a 6month period.
- Planned, documented, and communicated vision & strategy plans to executive stakeholders to meet federal and legal compliance requirements.
- Designed features and new experiences as needed to meet business requirements, following UI Principals, and proven design patterns.
- Context specific skills, tools, and languages include React.js, Angular, Typescript, Jest/enzyme unit testing, Java, Rest APIs, MS SQL, prototyping, wireframing, Sketch, and Figma.
Senior Frontend Developer Engineer
Hearst Autos
Atlanta, GA
07.2016 - 03.2018
- Rebuild of the highly visible and highly trafficked Car and Driver website.
- Rebuild of Black Book Trade and Credit Shopping tools in Angular 1.4.
- Context specific skills, tools, and languages include Angular 2, Node.js, Angular Universal, TypeScript, TsLint, Webpack, Jasmine, Sass, PostCSS, Rest APIs, Protractor, and Istanbul.
Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Greensky Trade Credit
Atlanta, GA
11.2014 - 05.2015
- Responsible for the architecture, development, maintenance, documentation, and integration of custom-built Automated Testing Framework (ATF).
- Development of test packages for all test suites that were compatible with Jenkins integration server and could be run with build jobs.
- Agile Methodology Practices Defect tracking, QA review, QA approval, task assignment, progress and completion tracking, and time tracking managed using JIRA.
- Led training classrooms for new and current team members twice a week.
- Database testing to ensure data model performance, reduce redundancy, and ensure data integrity as well as, CRUD record validation, field-level security checks, and verification of user access rights.
- Code reviews.
- Context specific skills, tools, and languages include Node.js, NPM, Saucelabs, Q-test, Rest APIs, Protractor, and Jasmine.
Lead Software Development Engineer
Global Payments
Atlanta, GA
03.2014 - 11.2014
- Training of all team members, onshore and offshore, on workflow and application architecture.
- Attended daily scrum meetings, reported status updates, assigned tasks to team members, and provided estimates based on the project's scope to the product team.
- Worked closely with Quality Assurance team members tracking defects, providing up-to-date requirements, and tracking the developer's progress of test script creation.
- Responsible for ensuring that team members were up to date on all Information Security Coding Standards and that standards were followed throughout development.
- Creation of AngularJS template files, custom directives, filters, and forms.
- Styling using LESS, Twitter Bootstrap, and custom client-specific CSS templates.
- Session-based application security using JSON web tokens.
- REST API integration.
Business Intelligence Developer
Brickstream
Norcross, GA
03.2013 - 03.2014
- Successful delivery Enterprise Reporting system TrafficIQ.
- Data visualizations developed using Logi Analytics V.11 reporting tool.
- Microsoft SQL Server Development of complex stored procedures, queries and views used to return saved traffic metrics based on user-selected date and time filters.
- Server Management and Networking Configuration of data connections, deployment of application packages to Tomcat server utilizing the Logi Analytics integrated deployment tool.
- Responsible for the management of dedicated production server and configuring client project file structure.
- Performed all production application releases, deployment of bug fixes, and custom client requests.
- Set client domain redirects and DNS records.
- Overall monitoring of server load as well as troubleshooting server performance errors and failures.
Business Intelligence Developer
Brave Point Inc
Norcross, GA
10.2012 - 03.2013
- Responsible for identifying, researching, and documenting client and industry-specific metrics and KPI's.
- Design, development, and implementation of KPI dashboards, reports, charts, graphs, maps, scorecards.
- BI team collaboratively developed Enterprise Reporting Solution explicitly targeted for the manufacturing industry, MFG360.
- The product provides ad-hoc reporting, MFG's custom ETL process, and is tablet and mobile compatible.
- Gained experience with multiple BI tools, including Logi Analytics V.11, QlikView, Pentaho, Actuate, and Rapid Miner, fulfilled custom feature or styling client requests outlined in the work statement using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
- Microsoft SQL Server Developed complex stored procedures, queries, and views to pull and transform data and return application required metrics, KPIs, and filters.
- Performed various database tasks such as table creation, record deletes and updates, modification of user access rights, and user creation.
Frontend Web Developer
OmegaNet Inc
Stone Mountain, GA
01.2010 - 01.2012
- CMS development in WordPress, as well as older systems.
- Conversion of current sites into HTML 5 & CSS 3.
- Worked directly with customers/clients guiding them through the design and development phases for website creation.
- Graphic design work using Adobe Creative Suite.
Education
Associate of Arts & Science – AAS - Computer Information Systems
Gwinnett Technical College
Lawrenceville, GA01.2010
Some College (No Degree) -
Georgia Perimeter College
Lawrenceville, GASkills
- Software development lifecycle
- UI/UX design
- Requirements analysis
- Servant leadership
- Frontend architecture
- Scrum methodology
- React 18
- TypeScript
- Frontend component libraries
- Functional programming
- Quality assurance
- API integration and persistence
- Accessibility standards
- Workflow optimization
- Mentoring team members
- Code reviewing
- Continuous integration
- Architecture strategy
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Release management
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance, 01/01/22, 01/01/24
- Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, 01/01/22, 01/01/24
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Principal Software Development Engineer
CodeMettle
07.2024 - Current
Manager of Software Development Engineering
CodeMettle
07.2022 - 07.2024
Lead Software Development Engineer
CodeMettle
03.2021 - 06.2022
Lead Application UX/UI Developer
Elavon
04.2019 - 03.2021
Senior Frontend Developer Engineer
Hearst Autos
07.2016 - 03.2018
Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Greensky Trade Credit
11.2014 - 05.2015
Lead Software Development Engineer
Global Payments
03.2014 - 11.2014
Business Intelligence Developer
Brickstream
03.2013 - 03.2014
Business Intelligence Developer
Brave Point Inc
10.2012 - 03.2013
Frontend Web Developer
OmegaNet Inc
01.2010 - 01.2012
Associate of Arts & Science – AAS - Computer Information Systems
Gwinnett Technical College
Some College (No Degree) -
Georgia Perimeter College