Eric Bui
Software Engineer
Seattle,WA
Summary
Former healthcare professional and mostly self-taught software developer with a keen eye for UI/UX and 6+ years of experience in creating scalable software solutions to enhance business productivity as well as user experience. Highly familiar with all aspects of the software development cycle and can quickly adapt to new situations.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
13
13
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Sr. Software Engineer (Front End Technical Lead)
First American Title Insurance Co
06.2021 - Current
- Improved code review practices by encouraging more documentation/more detailed pull requests, fostering an environment of constructive feedback exchange among team members.
- Mentored junior developers through regular pair programming sessions, providing guidance on best practices and coding standards.
- Organized weekly front end sync up meeting to discuss blockers and share knowledge.
- Defined code styling guide and configured an automated linting process by utilizing a husky pre-commit hook. This made our code review process much more efficient and helped to ensure consistency in our codebases.
- Coordinated collaboration between QA and development teams in adopting automated testing frameworks (using Jest and react-testing-library) to improve overall code quality and greatly reduce time spent with manual testing.
- Championed the adoption of a unit/integration testing approach to the UI code, freeing up developer resources to focus on deliverables over maintaining a failing e2e testing suite.
- Worked closely with product teams to define a balanced strategy and timeline to deliver 70% code coverage while still meeting feature delivery timelines.
- Led cross-functional collaboration effort between three different teams to create an reusable feature flag wrapper package in React/Next.js that integrates with the company's existing internal feature flags as well as LaunchDarkly.
- Managed CI/CD pipelines by writing basic shell scripts and maintaining
Terraform/yaml files for our codebase.
Software Development Engineer II
Nationstar Mortgage DBA Mr. Cooper
02.2019 - 06.2021
- Worked closely with product management and UI/UX teams to deliver features for the company's central customer-facing web portal: www.MrCooper.com
- Participated in design meetings, contributing ideas for improving user interface elements and the overall website workflow.
- Followed Test Driven Development (TDD) practices to maintain 80% code coverage on our unit tests using Jest and Enzyme.
- Reduced technical debt by refactoring legacy code for improved maintainability and reduced error rates.
Software Developer
Cognizant
10.2018 - 02.2019
- Worked as a software development consultant with Neiman Marcus to build new features and maintain the existing web application for the company's primary e-commerce platform: www.NeimanMarcus.com
- Contributed to building a reusable component library using React and Typescript.
- Helped to optimize performance of the products listing page by implementing lazy loading, reducing page load times nearly 50%.
Software Engineer
Verizon
04.2018 - 10.2018
- Contributed to the migration of a legacy codebase for one of the company's internal applications to a more modern tech stack using React and NodeJS.
- Designed and updated major UI components to enhance usability and increase app performance.
- Implemented Redux as a state management tool in order to increase code maintainability and improve code quality by adhering to React design patterns.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Kinesiology
The University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX 05.2001 - 12.2013
Skills
Javascript, Typescript
Timeline
Sr. Software Engineer (Front End Technical Lead)
First American Title Insurance Co
06.2021 - Current
Software Development Engineer II
Nationstar Mortgage DBA Mr. Cooper
02.2019 - 06.2021
Software Developer
Cognizant
10.2018 - 02.2019
Software Engineer
Verizon
04.2018 - 10.2018
Bachelor of Science - Kinesiology
The University of Texas At Austin
05.2001 - 12.2013