About me
I am a DC-based front-end engineer; motivated by the power of technology as a tool for positive change; and with a background in linguistics, education, and nonprofit management. When not coding, I love reading, traveling, and most of all doting on my puppy.
Before becoming a software engineer, I worked in nonprofit management at a refugee resettlement agency and in English language education. I've always loved harnessing the magic of communication to do my job, whether that involved
- studying spoken languages or learning programming languages;
- teaching new concepts in the classroom or describing new concepts through documentation; or
- training and providing feedback to teachers or providing code review for team members.
I thrive in collaborative roles on mission-driven teams that value curiosity and life-long learning.
Work Experience
Front-End Engineer
POLITICO
Washington, DC
04 / 2021 - null
Full-Stack Developer
The Collab Lab
Remote
04 / 2021 - 06 / 2021
Senior Manager of Language Access & Proficiency
Nationalities Service Center
Philadelphia, PA
05 / 2018 - 08 / 2019
Academic Program Administrator
Nationalities Service Center
Philadelphia, PA
06 / 2016 - 05 / 2018
Native Education Trainer
ECC Foreign Language Institutes of Japan
Osaka, Japan
04 / 2015 - 05 / 2016
English Instructor
ECC Foreign Language Institutes of Japan
Osaka, Japan
08 / 2013 - 05 / 2016
Education
Grace Hopper Immersive Software Engineering Course
Fullstack Academy of Code
New York, NY
2020
Certificate, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
2013
Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA
2012
Skills
(Programming) Languages:
JavaScript
Dart
Python
Front End:
React.js
Redux
CSS
HTML
Flutter
Socket.io
Gatsby.js
Back End:
Node.js
Express.js
PostgreSQL
Sequelize
Socket.io
Tools:
Git
GitHub
Heroku
Mocha
Chai
Chrome Dev Tools
(Human) Languages:
Japanese
Spanish
Arabic
Writing
Learning to Code as a Form of Language Learning
Lessons from Second Language Acquisition, and how we can apply them to code
Nov 2022 - 7 min
Collab Lab Retrospective
Lessons learned about how best to contribute to a software engineering team
Jun 2021 - 4 min
Job Hunting as a Junior Developer
A small mindset shift that can make a huge difference
Apr 2021 - 4 min