| Internal Revenue Service |
| Information Technology Specialist (Systems Analysis) |
Oct 2024 – Present |
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Launched the new IRS Tax Withholding Estimator from start to finish in nine months, with full support for 2026 tax law.
I built the prototype and then led the project through design, implementation, and testing, securing sign-off from stakeholders across IRS and Treasury.
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Collaborated with tax policy experts to establish a rigorous, automated, and transparent testing process to ensure the estimator’s accuracy.
This work enabled the first Tier 3 open-source projects at IRS.
- Managed a cross-functional delivery team of approximately 30 full-time employees and contractors.
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Modularized and expanded the Direct File tax engine for use in lightweight, static websites.
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Tech Stack: Scala, Web Components, JS, CSS, Java, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, Splunk, Datadog, AWS Services
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| Freelance Software Consulting |
| Self-employed |
Sep 2021 – Present |
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- Consulting engineer for non-tech companies that need reliable, maintainable web services.
- Built a web registration system that processed over $1.5mil in revenue in one calendar year.
- Reduced operating cost by 20x on a live full-stack web service by migrating it from MongoDB to SQLite.
- Reduced the average request time of a web service by 100x, while dramatically improving its functionality, by replacing the
React frontend with HTML templates and a hypermedia API.
- Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, SQLite, NodeJS, PHP, htmx, Digital Ocean, fly.io
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| The Washington Post |
| Engineering Lead |
Sep 2022 – Apr 2023 |
| Senior Software Engineer |
Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 |
| Software Engineer |
Jun 2021 – Oct 2021 |
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- Resurrected and modernized the freelance operations platform, a Java + AngularJS monolith that had been in maintenance mode since 2017.
- Led a group of engineering, newsroom, and finance stakeholders to plan product roadmap.
- Built a fully automated CI/CD with containerized builds, a full test suite, and multi-region deployment.
- Mitigated key vulnerabilities by implementing SSO, encryption-at-rest, and reverse proxies.
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| Amazon |
| Software Development Engineer II |
Mar 2021 – Jun 2021 |
| Software Development Engineer I |
Sep 2019 – Mar 2021 |
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- Reduced average request latency from 1500 to 400ms by parallelizing requests, modeling expected
thread usage based on predicted traffic—which functioned during peak holiday load without incident.
- Designed, implemented, and documented Alexa Video APIs for Echo Show Devices, used by 3P partners
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