Hi! My name is Max and I live in Chicago. I am a Software Engineer specializing in front-end web development. My main area of focus currently is building responsive, accessible, and scalable React-based applications.
My Skills
JavaScript
TypeScript
React.js
Redux
AngularJS
HTML
Sass / CSS
Python
Node.js
SQL
REST APIs
Bootstrap
Version control
Unit testing
Continuous integration
Responsive design
My Experience
Albert
Software Engineer II // January 2022 - June 2022
Promoted to SE II level in my first performance review cycle. This level of promotion is rarely seen at Albert as most employees are typically not considered for promotion within the first year of employment
Led QA initiatives for Albert's web application during initial development. This involved coordinating with product designers and team members to delegate work and verify bug fixes, leading to over 100 QA items being resolved within a two-month timeline
Assigned as project owner for Albert's web style guide integration. The style guide's purpose is to have consistently defined styling for various UI components. Owning this project involved writing a 6-page PRD specifying requirements, implementation approach, estimated timelines, and trade-off decision analysis
At a technical level, integrating the style guide consisted of refactoring over 15 commonly used UI components throughout the Albert web applications and verifying such changes with pixel-perfect accuracy against Figma design mockups. This was estimated to increase QA lifecycle efficiency by approximately 15%
Contributed to overhaul of Albert's mobile device web signup flow, one of Albert's largest revenue channels. This consisted of refactoring the responsive UI for over 15 pages in the signup flow and testing such changes across multiple mobile and desktop devices
Software Engineer I // May 2021 - January 2022
Member of the Web team, building web applications for Albert products and services
Specialized in front-end technologies such as React, Redux, TypeScript, styled-components, and Webpack
Collaborated with the Product team, specifically product designers, to implement product mockups with pixel-perfect styling
Within one month of joining the team, contributed to 25% of total team output for our first project deadline, resulting in a 50% increase in the team's overall output and setting a new company record for the Web team's output
Contributed to redesign of Albert's website rebrand, building 4 new pages and assisting teammates with building additional pages. The project included collaborating with product designers as well as investigating and integrating the Lever.co API for fetching Albert job board data
Assigned as lead for building and testing the Albert Web app Home pages. Building these 10 new pages involved planning the engineering architecture approach, communicating with stakeholders to gather requirements, delegating work to teammates, updating my manager with the project's timeline and challenges, and contributing my own programming work including coding and pull request reviews. This resulted in creating a new point of access for Albert users to use Albert services
Data Decisions
Software Engineer // February 2020 - April 2021
Built AngularJS applications to solve business needs of varying companies, mainly forklift manufacturers
Main project was a sales team CRM which handles a sales pipeline, communication, and data for over 200 customer accounts
Completed over 6 Jira issues on average weekly which included new features and bug fixes, resulting in an increase of the team's work output by 30%
Within 7 months, built over 150 features into the sales team CRM collaborating with the executive assistant and CEO of a customer site; this included biweekly demos and using a support ticketing system to keep track of updates for the customer
Created over 50 new REST API endpoints for our backend system leading to an increase in data read / write speeds by 10%
Collaborating with president of Data Decisions on design decisions and customer support to produce products that satisfy our customers
Cyclebar Culver City
Cyclebar Experience & Sales Associate // November 2019 - February 2020
Contributed to highly-rated Cyclebar customer satisfaction by assisting over 120 clients daily
Managed multiple tasks in small time frames such as cleaning, making sales calls, and satisfying client requests all within 45 minute to 1 hour periods
Increased number of clients through membership sale pitches and offering packages based on clients' needs. Cyclebar Culver City has been ranked 2 years in a row as the #1 franchise for member count across over 200 Cyclebar franchise locations
Freelance Web Developer
August 2019 - January 2020
Building websites and applications for various clients, mainly small businesses or independent entrepreneurs.
Working with clients to define project requirements, establish deadlines, and estimate costs.
Regularly presenting demos to clients to share progress on project, gain feedback, and suggest additional features.
Member of Tools team under Support department. Tools team develops tools (mostly applications and scripts) used by the Support department. Tools used assist technical support engineers with closing customer support cases and developing their careers.
Built 2 new full-stack web apps used by technical support engineers for career development. Collaborated with full-time engineers and other interns, delegating features to be built.
Developed new features and resolved bugs with current applications maintained by our team. Worked with management to define requirements for new features as well as setting timelines for releases.
Followed gitflow workflow for new features and hotfixes that were developed; fulfilled requests made through code reviews such as modifying code readability, optimizing performance, and adding new features.
Contributed ideas towards planning and design meetings and actively participated in over 50 standup team meetings.
Engineered over 30 pieces of documentation for added features to current applications, details of new applications developed by myself and others, app architectures and stacks, and guides.
New Student and Family Programs, University of the Pacific
Scheduling and Coverage Manager // August 2017 - May 2018
Scheduled 28 employees to work welcome desk shifts with approximately 50 shifts assigned per week.
Communicated with staff daily through emails; contributed towards monthly staff meetings by presenting scheduling updates to staff of 68 individuals.
Assisted coordinators of New Student and Family Programs with various tasks such as contributing towards the design of the new peer mentor program.
New Student and Family Programs, University of the Pacific
Pacific Ambassador // April 2016 - August 2017
Served as representative of University of the Pacific community.
Hosted over 150 prospective families on campus tours.
Served as orientation leader and welcomed in over 1,600 new students into Pacific.
Mentored over 100 students in orientation groups as orientation leader.
Student and family populations included multiple ethnicities, genders, religions, ages, and backgrounds.