A full stack engineer with 7 years of experience who has built web applications enjoyed by billions of customers.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Front End Engineer (Full Stack Responsibilities)
Amazon
11.2021 - 06.2024
Designed and lead a team of engineers to deliver an API which serves billions of daily requests to reduce the largest contentful paint metric on https://console.aws.amazon.com
Lead a team of front end engineers to deliver a website for AWS builders so that they could more efficiently deliver new products on https://console.aws.amazon.com. This website included mechanisms for community feedback, contribution, and documentation feedback.
Delivered features and maintained the front end, backend APIs, and infrastructure of a tool responsible for allowing AWS builders to release new products on https://console.aws.amazon.com
Front End Engineer (full stack responsibilities)
IBM
12.2018 - 11.2021
Led the technical design / breakdown of new features for IBM’s talent acquisition platform. Enabled 2000 recruiters to manage candidates through all stages of the application life cycle.
Designed, built, and maintained APIs to consume vastly different data sources and output uniform information about IBM job postings and the people who applied to them.
Coordinated with teams across IBM to provide a shared feature management platform. Used a tiered roll out strategy for new functionality to receive feedback earlier in the development lifecycle.
Created an open-source component library so clients could easily integrate data from one of IBM cloud’s AI offerings into their own user interfaces.
Participated in mentoring a fellow colleague and designed a project to help them learn the fundamentals of software engineering and bring a valuable service to coordinate tickets within their customer support team.
Site Reliability Engineer
IBM
09.2017 - 12.2018
Identified gaps in the way the web application for IBM's on-premise AI service was monitored.
Successfully onboarded the larger Site Reliability Group on to New Relic which allowed for the first time confidence that on-premise users had 99.99% uptime when accessing their web application.
Took initiative and contributed PR's to the front end repository of the product where I was a Site reliability engineer.
Natural Language Processing Researcher
Siena College
06.2015 - 08.2016
Developed an information retrieval system which uses AI to parse the natural language of doctors' notes to accurately diagnose patients over the course of two summers
Published a research paper to the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
State University of New York At New Paltz
New Paltz, NY
05.2017
Publications
Gassert, S., Kish, B., Walsh, T., Small, K., Small, K., Small, S., Siena's Clinical Decision Assistant with Machine Learning, 05/28/20, https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec25/papers/SCIAICLTeam-CL.pdf