EXPERIENCE
SidesSite, Remote — Freelance Web Engineer
NOV 2021 - Present
- Founded SideSites, a solo freelance company offering web services to clients.
- Designed and built a comprehensive website for Hagler Process.
- Hosted on Netlify, utilized Sanity.io as a CMS to populate data within SvelteKit
- Acted as the founding developer for MergerAI, an M&A planning and assistance
web app.
- Built on Next.js with an AWS infrastructure.
- Utilized Claude AI for deliverable recommendations.
- Integrated Pinecone vector database for RAG operations on AI queries, implemented
using LangChain.
- Managed data with DynamoDB.
- Developed and launched a reservation platform for ReserveNow.
- Enabled users to pay for meals while making table reservations at participating
restaurants.
- Built and deployed in under two weeks.
- Leveraged Stripe for payments, SvelteKit for the frontend, and Vercel for
hosting.
Technologies: SvelteKit, Netlify, Sanity.io, Next.js, AWS, Bedrock, Pinecone, LangChain,
DynamoDB, Stripe, Vercel
Data Recognition Corp, Remote — Web Engineer
JUNE 2022 - OCT 2023
- Utilize TypeScript and unit tests across a majority of services
- Introduce asynchronous stateful features to Angular web apps
- Debug AWS Lambdas using a serverless dev environment
- Setup various AWS infrastructures using Serverless
- Incorporate SQS and DynamoDB in a notification service
- Reconfigure mappings for users in ElasticSearch
- Deploy EventBridge Scheduler for HR user creation tool
- Modify authentication protocols using
Okta
- Maintain documentation on code features and release notes
- Monitor and debug pipeline steps in Jenkin processes
Technologies: AWS+, TypeScript, Node.js, Angular, RXjs, Serverless, Okta, Jest, Jenkins
Pyxl, Remote — Web Developer
MAY 2020 - JUNE 2022 — Promoted from Junior in March 2021
- Developed at a full-stack level for dozens of clients
- Led development on Pyxl’s first headless ecommerce build using the Next.js
framework and WordPress API
- Wrote front-end code using Twig, enforcing best practices
- Replaced plugins with custom Vue-based solutions
- Trained new developers to create responsive and sharp styles
- Adopted emerging technology with a new site every 4 weeks
- Refactored our PHP core from a functional-based plugin to a class-based theme
Technologies: JS, WordPress, Node.js, PostCSS, Vue & React, Vuex & Zustand, Next.js,
GraphQL
Pyxl, Knoxville, TN —
Development Intern
APRIL 2019 - May 2020
- Fixed FE (React and Twig) and BE bugs on existing sites
- Shadowed senior developers
- Assisted other developers on WordPress-based bugs
- Developed a WP Plugin to import products via the WP API
Technologies: PHP, WordPress, JS, Node.js, Twig, SASS and TailwindCSS, VCS with BitBucket and
Github
University of Tennessee —
Computer Science (CS) Tutor
OCTOBER 2018 - APRIL 2019
- Tutored at an all-women organization for helping electrical engineering and
computer science students
- Reviewed and debug problem scenarios in C++
- Mentored problem solving and algorithm development
MakeMeModern Web Agency —
Web Development Intern
JANUARY 2018 - MAY 2018
- Eased client operations by building a PDF viewer with signature input
- Coded on a professional web-stack based around the Django web framework
Technologies: JS, Python, Django
EDUCATION
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
AUGUST 2015 - MAY 2020
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Minor - Cyber Security | DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGES/SKILLS
- JavaScript (Primary)
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- HTML5/CSS3
- Templating - Twig & JSX
- SASS/PostCSS/TailwindCSS
- React
- Next.js
- State Management
- PHP
- Jest
- GraphQL
- VCS/Git
FRAMEWORKS & TECHNOLOGIES
- WordPress
- Figma
- AWS via Serverless
- Lambdas
- API Gateway
- DynamoDB
- S3
- SQS
- SNS
- Secrets Manager
- EventBridge Scheduler
- ElasticSearch
- RAG - Pinecone & LangChain
- Netlify
- Vercel
- Stripe
- Okta
- Github
- CI/CD - Jenkins & Github Actions
AWARDS
1st Place KnxHx Hackathon - Developed a trash reporting solution for communication
between the city and the public.
We followed-up with a pitch to the City of Knoxville, Public Works.
2022 W3 Gold - Brownlee Website
ORGANIZATIONS
HackUTK - Teaching Director: Taught cyber security topics to dozens of students, demonstrating web exploits and
general security best practices.
UTK Esports - Team Captain: Organized and led a competitive video game team. Participated in multiple
leagues, held tryouts and traveled to tournaments over the course of 4 years.
SidesSites - Founder: Solo-freelance company offering web services to clients looking to build a
website from the ground up.
Tech: SvelteKit, Netlify, TailwindCSS
PROJECTS
OurJams - Web app for sharing music via the Spotify API.
Pick3 - Web app using FourSquare Places API to make restaurant recommendations.
Nodulus - Collection of web games made with Three.js 3D modeling library.
Pincity - Web app for providing and reviewing geographic feedback on points of interest
in the user’s city.
WyTrash - trash reporting solution for communication between the city and the public.
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