Resume

Software Engineer

🇯🇵 Musashino-shi, Tokyo

October 2023 - Present

Planned and created a career growth framework based on frameworks applied at other tech companies, established formal roles within the engineering team, introduced one-on-one's, and invested time into the growth of the engineering team.
Reworked the hiring and recruiting process as well as how candidates were targeted, leading to a noticeable increase in applicable talent, decreased time spent interviewing and hiring, and lead to 4+ key hires.

Japanese Language School Student

🇯🇵 Shinjuku, Tokyo

January 2023 - December 2023

Stepped away from work to fulfill a personal dream of mine: living abroad in Japan while studying Japanese intensively.
Passed the JLPT N2 test in July 2023, and am currently studying for JLPT N1! I intended to take the test in December 2023 but unfortunately caught COVID...the day before. 🥲

Senior Software Engineer

🇺🇸 Remote, California

August 2019 - December 2022

Created a brand new Virtual Ceremony product using Azure Blob Storage, C# and MSSQL when COVID started, taking the company from the brink of potential bankruptcy to acquiring hundreds of new customers and accomplishing its most profitable year to date
Rewrote the emailing system, leveraging ElasticEmail’s API, webhooks, and Azure Functions, allowing the system to handle hundreds of thousands of emails and status updates daily
Lead the development of two separate projects, Pronunciation Manager and Zoho API integration, using C#, MSSQL, Angular.JS and Azure, cutting operation costs by several hundred thousand dollars

Software Engineer

🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts

March 2016 - July 2019

Rewrote existing fund flow and allocation calculation engines into separate services using Azure Service Fabric, improving performance and increasing scalability of the products
Collaborated with team leads, quantitative analysts and product managers to create two brand new products using MSSQL and C#, expanding existing product offerings
Wrote the first unit tests for existing projects using Moq and FluentAssertions, and expanded test coverage to all new products going forward

Software Engineer I

🇺🇸 Cleveland, Ohio

February 2013 - March 2016

Created quote proposal generation project using C# and MSSQL, providing 20 existing products the ability to generate and send proposal documents
Refactored and rewrote policy declaration generation code and switched from Word to PDF generation, reducing print times to 1/20 of their original times
Lead implementation of form generation engine for the new Special Risk product, helping to introduce Agile methodologies to the team and mentoring other engineers on the project