i'm a full-stack software engineer based in kansas city [39°5'N 94°34'W]. in elementary school i was sent to the principal's office for writing html. these days my pull requests get approved.
i'm a software engineer at Mylo, LLC. we make personal and commercial insurance easy. Mylo lets you quote multiple products across multiple carriers with a single click. i write microservices in node+express to interface with an ever-increasing number of carrier and rater partners. i also implemented a groundbreaking solution that allows users to answer different-but-similiar insurance carrier questions with one input. this has let insurance agents go from generating 20 quotes/day to 40. i build databases using postgres and create react micro frontends to allow operations personnel to more easily peruse insurance data. these frontend tools have cut down engineer-reliant inquiries down from once a day to once a week, allowing our team to stay in the zone. i refactored legacy code to allow multitenancy for our application, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing.
i was a software engineer at Generation Esports. we gave 6-12th grade gamers a reason to go to school. i wrote microservices in node+nestjs to build out new features on the platform: examples include high-score challenges in aim trainers, quest rewards for playing matches, OAuth to allow sign-in with Google, Riot, and Aimlabs, and SSO to facilitate authentication with our streaming service. all of these features directly helped the userbase grow by over 50%. i supplemented or otherwise refactored RESTful APIs with GRPC and used RabbitMQ for inter-service communication. the switch to using GRPC over HTTP improved performance site-wide; the user journey from login to matchmaking was ~30% faster, and support received less tickets that were the result of users assuming the system timed out. i established best practices by writing documentation, unit tests, and new access control functionality, ensuring a smooth onboarding experience for new developers as they arrived. i led three teams as the scrum master, facilitating all ceremonies every two weeks. i helped distribute tickets and unblock developers as the need arose. i deployed microservice docker images to kubernetes and configured them as they were needed to be spun up via a GitHub to Azure DevOps pipeline.
i handled the programming for kidakupo's twitch stream overlays. they look really cool and you're legally bound to agree. i wrote the logic and styling for the chatbox and alertbox. both widgets are animated. the chatbox comes in a 2d version suitable for all situations and a 3d version designed to be used with perspective provided in a graphic. the 3d chatbox continues to be one of a kind; these widgets helped to promote kidakupo as a sought-after graphic designer in the vtubing space. i also wrote the logic for kidakupo's caption widget using the Web Speech API, allowing them to continue catering to audiences that are otherwise difficult to capture with spoken word alone. viewers often come in even when they are unable to listen to the stream because of the accessibility the captions provide.