Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
Student Assistant
01/2020 – 10/2021 · Kiel, Germany
- Led technology training for our online learning platform, giving instructors greater flexibility and more abilities when organizing their courses.
- Regularly updated department websites to keeping students informed and up-to-date.
- Proof read English writing for websites and scientific papers.
CAPA Strategies
Software Engineer
01/2019 – 12/2020 · Portland, OR, USA (Remote)
- Developed frontend web applications providing customers with an interactive experience for exploring study results.
- Researched and developed web applications for managing science projects to increase productivity and allow new business possibilities.
Vacasa
Software Engineer
08/2018 – 09/2019 · Portland, OR, USA
- Helped lead backend development on API projects which allowed the business to break away from monolithic application structures and grow the business faster.
- Developed new application deployment pipelines which gave our development team greater speed and flexibility when deploying new releases.
- Led employee training on AWS and frequently led talks explaining technical design decisions for solutions developed for the company.
Campaign Monitor
Software Engineer
05/2017 – 07/2018 · Portland, OR, USA
- Served as a Python code quality expert whose guidance helped reduce production errors and increase code readability.
- Designed services to break up a monolithic code base which lead to a more agile, easier to test code base.
- Implemented application features leading to new sales and retention of current customers in the area of integrations and user and account management.
Pacific Coast Distributors
Software Engineer
12/2015 – 04/2017 · Portland, OR, USA
- Developed and maintained full featured shipping and inventory management software with an emphasis on scalability.
- Identified flaws in database design and implemented effective fixes that helped our business gain new insights.
- Implemented automated testing and integrated it with current release procedures leading to a reduction in production errors.
Rocket Internet SE
Software Engineer
10/2014 – 12/2015 · Berlin, Germany
- Designed scalable marketing data collection systems whose data was the foundation for our marketing reports.
- Built web services and managed deployment for our marketing tools application with a focus on being able to easily onboard new developers.
- Created a series of flexible, tested, and well documented Python libraries for easily accessing reporting data.
Portland State University
Software Engineer
01/2011 – 09/2014 · Portland, OR, USA
- Started as a student worker in tech support and worked my way up to software engineer at what was then known as “Academic Research Computing.”
- The role laid the groundwork for my later career and taught me a great deal about managing and building complex web applications.
- The websites I built were split evenly between custom PHP, Drupal, and Django applications.
