My experience.

Internship on the Search team, facilitating improvement in search experience across all Tableau products.

• Architected an Elasticsearch query modification library in Java for independent versioning, testing, and isolation of search relevance functionality
• Collected search data for development of ML models by designing telemetry and a relevance rating tool using React, AWS Lambda, and DynamoDB
• Added AWS SQS integration to a Java Spring service to allow for data ingestion from a new product offering
• Created a mock server to decouple development from other services, reducing blockers and simplifying integration testing

• Created new conversation flows for a top North American music provider's Alexa skill using Node.js and AWS Lambda
• Collaborated with product/design teams to improve skill interaction model, helping to improve channel-matching success rate by ~60%
• Led development of an automated voice testing tool using Python, C++, and Alexa Voice SDK, improving test consistency and reducing testing time by over 95%
• Engaged in Test Driven Development and wrote unit/regression tests with Jest to improve code quality and reliability

Blueprint partners with non-profits to provide technology services such as websites, mobile applications, analysis tools—free of charge.

OSS DanceFest:

• Built Android app with Kotlin to digitize grading and ranking for a provincial dance competition, streamlining the judging process for 500+ contestants
• Retrieved display data and submitted forms to Firebase with real-time updates

Social Development Centre:

• Worked on a Ruby on Rails API for a flowchart creation tool, enabling creation of more accessible flowcharts for social service information

• Worked in cross-platform team to develop workspace booking app in Java, reducing time needed to do booking tasks by over 90%
• Integrated Firebase Realtime Database using MVVM architecture, allowing the service layer to be easily swappable with alternative service providers in the future
• Utilized latest Android architecture components like Data Binding, LiveData, and ViewModels to manage UI component state and lifecycles