Professional Summary
Software Developer with expertise in automation architecture, API design and validation, CI/CD systems, and distributed platform quality. Experienced collaborating across engineering teams to design resilient systems, de-risk architectural changes, and ship reliable SaaS products. Integrates AI-assisted development tools into daily workflows to accelerate delivery while maintaining strong engineering judgment and system integrity.
Core Competencies
- Full-stack JavaScript (React, Node.js)
- Automation framework architecture
- API validation (REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI)
- RBAC & access control systems
- CI/CD integration & release gating
- Performance & load testing
- Distributed system debugging
- AI-assisted engineering workflows
Experience
- Developed Playwright (TypeScript) automation for complex GraphQL and REST workflows
- Improved CI-driven release stability through deterministic API validation and end-to-end test design
- Leveraged AI-assisted development tools to accelerate locator strategy, test generation, and debugging
- Led backend quality strategy across five product teams and mentored eight engineers
- Designed RBAC validation framework for authentication, authorization, and role expansion
- Validated OpenAPI contracts and integrations (SSO, OAuth2, Workato)
- Benchmarked MongoDB performance during schema migrations and data restructuring
- Diagnosed distributed backend failures using Datadog logs and telemetry
- Architected validation strategy for new GenAI product prior to release
- Designed and executed multi-scale atomistic and molecular simulation models on national supercomputing infrastructure
- Automated high-throughput computational pipelines for reproducible data transformation and analysis
- Published peer-reviewed research translating theoretical models into experimentally actionable insight
- Taught high school physics and chemistry, designing rigorous curriculum and communicating complex technical concepts clearly
Selected Projects
- Built full-stack camera application with client-side image processing and server-side persistence
- Designed RESTful API routes with validation safeguards and structured response contracts
- Balanced client-side responsiveness with backend storage and performance trade-offs
- Implemented browser-based reactive system modeling interacting entities
- Evaluated algorithmic trade-offs between physical realism and real-time performance
Technical Skills
JavaScript - TypeScript - Node.js - React - GraphQL - REST - MongoDB - Playwright - Selenium - CodeceptJS - Postman - K6 - GitLab CI - Datadog - Jira - AI-assisted development tools (ChatGPT, Codex)
Education
Software Developer Certificate - Fullstack Academy / Virginia Tech (2024)
Ph.D. Chemistry - Virginia Tech (2017)
B.S. Chemistry - Towson University Honors College, Summa cum laude (2007)