Jean Pratt
Chicago,IL
Summary
Results-oriented and innovative Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience. Easily communicates complex technical requirements to non-technical stakeholders. Excellent leadership record of leading development teams in enterprise-wide development projects.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Application Developer
Mesirow Financial
03.2024 - Current
- Architected the complete server migration within AWS from Node 12 to Node 20 using a Blue/Green deployment strategy, achieving a seamless transition in under 30 minutes with 100% uptime and zero customer-facing incidents.
- Modernized legacy third-party integrations by migrating document retrieval workflows from SOAP to REST APIs, maintaining backwards compatibility for high-volume transactional data streams.
- Served as the Lead Engineer for high value client financial portal, independently managing bi-weekly release cycles and maintaining stability for dedicated user base of investor and financial advisors.
- Directed technical onboarding for senior and junior engineering staff, conducting deep-dive code reviews and an architectural walkthrough to ensure consistency across complex modernization features.
- Designed and implemented custom Grafana dashboards to visualize API traffic and latency, establishing the team's first automated observability pipeline for tracking system health.
Software Engineer
Kunai
09.2021 - 11.2023
- Collaborated with project managers, developers and designers to create premium dining services solution with React, Redux, GraphQL and AWS Amplify for platform supporting over 1M customers since launch.
- Adapted various Figma specifications to application screens and UI components by utilizing Material UI to achieve cohesive design for dining services platform.
- Architected AWS microservice leveraging Amazon OpenSearch and GraphQL, enabling customers to query 350+ venues based on keyword and market.
- Built component library on React 17 + TypeScript stack from scratch based on client's design system.
- Wrote script using Node 16 to generate over 400+ test suites for components and utilities to achieve 100% unit test coverage.
- Wrote Storybook documentation for theme/components and privately published Storybook via Chromatic to give access to designers, developers, project managers and clients.
- Created test application utilizing component library as practical demonstration of the client's design system for future developers.
- Assisted team with reviewing, debugging, and developing additional features for dining services platform.
Software Engineer
TargetX
03.2018 - 07.2021
- Developed walk-in appointment scheduler application with Angular/HTML and SCSS/TypeScript/Salesforce stack for university campuses with over 50k+ appointments scheduled since launch.
- Planned, implemented, and QA tested ambitious stack migration for flagship company product, increasing development velocity and reducing accumulated tech debt.
- Wrote Node script to ensure ADA compliance across multiple applications via generating human-readable report with Pug, CSS3 and Bootstrap4.
- Coded standalone UI components for company products using React, Material UI, and CSS-in-JS.
- Organized training sessions for new engineers across the world to learn best practices for Angular/TypeScript, code review.
- Wrote extensive documentation for various company products.
Junior Developer
Swirl
03.2017 - 02.2018
- Collaborated with project managers and designers to develop a product selection tool using Angular.
- Adapted Sketch comps for client homepage to HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and PHP.
- Maintained and contributed to documentation for tracking progress through projects.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Media Arts and Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York01.2017
Skills
- JavaScript, TypeScript
- Nodejs
- AWS Lambda
- ElasticSearch
- GraphQL
- Git
- React, React Redux
- Angular, Angularjs
- HTML, CSS
- SQL
- Functional/integration testing
- Code reviews
Timeline
Associate Application Developer
Mesirow Financial
03.2024 - Current
Software Engineer
Kunai
09.2021 - 11.2023
Software Engineer
TargetX
03.2018 - 07.2021
Junior Developer
Swirl
03.2017 - 02.2018
Bachelor of Science - Media Arts and Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology