Resume

Experience

Software Engineer

SendOutCards | Salt Lake City, UT | April 2022 – Present

• Built async GraphQL wrapper around our legacy print pipeline with the production fulfillment team, adding custom enterprise print filters to onboard a $1M ARR enterprise client
• Optimized batch-processing pipeline by caching previously processed images in memory, eliminating redundant sequential processing and accelerating throughput 5x
• Delivered a configurable risk engine with rule-based thresholds and automated blocking, reducing digital gift card fraud from a targeted attack vector to near zero
• Cut card editor load time in half by implementing data prefetching, fine-tuning client-side cache policies and leveraging CloudFront CDN for static asset caching
• Rebuilt the greeting card rich text editor to use ProseMirror's native DOM handling and debounced Redux state updates, reduced re-renders, eliminated keystroke latency and delivered a smooth editing experience
• Contributed to the launch of our digital greeting-card platform, enabling users to send 3D animated cards through shareable links that generated over $100K in new revenue within the first seven days
• Integrated Saleor E-commerce SaaS to decouple order logic from our legacy backend, enabling faster iteration on digital product offerings
• Built a Stripe-powered cart/checkout for digital products, boosting revenue 5.6% and new customers 4.8%
• Eliminated S3 thumbnail storage by building an on-demand Open Graph image generation API
• Upgraded three core repositories to React 18 and replaced Webpack with Vite, cutting build times by ~80%
• Replaced a legacy client-side Redux cache with TanStack Query, reducing tech debt and improving data and render performance

Frontend Software Engineer

SendOutCards | Salt Lake City, UT | December 2019 – April 2022

• Rebuilt card editor into a reusable React Component, significantly enhancing user experience by enabling unrestricted element placement with layering, rotation, custom sizing and sticker support
• Established semantic versioned CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for the card editor repository, enabling automated testing and rapid white-label deployments across multiple applications
• Reduced client side bundle size by 82% through code splitting, hosting static assets externally, and pruning unused dependencies, significantly improving initial page load times
• Developed Quantum Design System, a public TypeScript-based React component library using Rollup and published to NPM, enforcing consistent UI patterns throughout the product suite

Skills

Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQL

Frameworks: React, Next.js, GraphQL, Node.js, Django, Redux, TanStack (Start, Query, Router)

Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MinIO

Integrations: Stripe, Twilio/SendGrid, Saleor

Education

Western Governor University B.S. Computer Science | Expected February 2027

Salt Lake Community College A.S. Business | January 2019