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I am currently a Application Development Engineer for Discover Financial Services, innovating the mobile app experience for customers.

Discover Financial Services

Full-time

April 2024 - Present · Current

Chicago, Illinois

Discover Financial Services is a leading direct banking and payment services company based in Riverwoods, Illinois. As one of the largest credit card issuers in the United States, Discover operates the Discover Network with millions of merchants and cash access locations worldwide. Their diverse suite of financial products and services includes credit cards, personal and student loans, online banking, and home equity loans, catering to both consumer and commercial clients across the nation.

Senior Associate Application Engineer

April 2024 - Present · Current

  • - Develop features for the Discover Banking Mobile App (iOS & Android), utilized by 6,000,000+ daily active users to check account balance, view account info, make and edit payments, manage rewards, etc.
  • React Native
  • React
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • NodeJS
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Jest
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Git
  • Figma
  • Terraform
  • Material UI
  • Jira
  • Confluence

American Family Insurance

Full-time

July 2021 - Present · 2 yrs 6 months

Madison, Wisconsin (Remote)

Madison, Wisconsin-based, American Family Insurance group is the nation's 13th-largest property/casualty insurance group and ranks No. 251 on the Fortune 500 list. American Family sells products, including auto, homeowners, life, business, and commercial/farm/ranch insurance, primarily through its exclusive independent contractor agents in 19 states.

Application Development Engineer

July 2021 - April 2024 · 2 yrs 10 months

  • Develop MyAccount, a web application utilized by 5,000,000+ customers to manage policies, payments, file claims, access insurance card/information, etc.

  • - Design, collaborate and successfully migrate several applications to AWS. Maintain a monorepo that includes SPAs and APIs hosted on AWS – Angular/TypeScript, NodeJs, NgRx, RxJS
  • - Develop a Context API to upsell customers on new policies resulting in achieving upsell goals 5 months in advance – NestJS, NodeJS, AWS
  • - Streamlined CI/CD processes, integrating security scans, testing, and multi-environment deployment and created Lambda functions to cache multiple API responses to reduce AWS cost. – AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3
  • - Spearheaded the design and development of a ReactJs dashboard used by 100+ Project Managers and Product Owners to identify prioritization of new work, improve sales and IVANS downloads – Material UI, MobX, AWS, Figma
  • - Implement a Terraform Module template for all tech types to push/pull packages to/from Enterprise Artifactory for all Enterprise developers to utilize – JFrog, NodeJS, Maven, PIP, AWS, Octopus Deploy
  • - Conduct end to end / unit code testing by creating Cypress & Jest tests and implement Adobe Analytics to ensure application stability and a user friendly experience
  • - Practice Agile framework and take on leadership responsibilities by creating new stories/tasks, maintaining backlog health and delegating tasks from Jira board. Write Confluence documentation for end users to maximize efficient application usage to derive desired results

  • Angular
  • React
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • NodeJS
  • NextJS
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Jest
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Git
  • Figma
  • Terraform
  • Material UI
  • Jira
  • Confluence