About me
I'm Iris, a Full Stack Software Engineer based in Rochester, NY with a Bachelor's in Software Engineering and a minor in Web Design & Development from RIT. I've spent my career building a diverse range of software. My experience spans both innovative startup environments and large-scale enterprise organizations, enabling me to contribute effectively to diverse teams and impactful projects.
Education
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering 2020
- Minor in Web Design and Development
- RIT Honors Student
- Member of Women in Computing
Work Experience
Software Engineer I & II
- - Spearheaded the design and submission of a proposed universal Paychex standard for Positive Pay files to banks.
- - Led the team's UI implementation during the Positive Pay Project, leveraging strong expertise in Angular user interface development.
- - Mentored new team members and co-ops, providing comprehensive support for both technical and soft skill development.
- - Drove significant contributions to the MongoDB 6 upgrade, actively managing releases, creating organizational tools and documentation, and identifying issues with the testing process before they became blockers
Chief Technology Officer
- - Joined the icitizen team as an engineer, transitioned to a leadership role within months.
- - Lead efforts to relaunch the icitizen platform.
- - Was Responsible for company’s technical decisions, architecture, and knowledgebase.
- - Spearheaded a small, lean development and design team.
Software Engineer Intern
I worked on Datto’s (web) portal team. I quickly joined their bi-weekly sprints, and took on the same role as my co-workers. I built, tested and presented a wide assortment of features and bug fixes, and led a small team within the company on a side project. (See FoodTrax).
Software Engineer Intern
I worked on Fujifilm’s kiosk team. My work was divided evenly between huge expansions to the kiosk’s analytics reporting system, and minor changes to the embedded JS apps contained within the main application, which were responsible for image and product adjustments.
Lead Software Developer
I established a temporary network and designed and programmed light shows for New York City’s new Kosciuszko Bridge at the request of the Governor’s office and the Department of Transportation. I also revamped the company's outdated product page, adding a product database along with a corresponding product ID generator and selector.
- My Duties included:
- - Development of React webapps to replace Nanometer Lighting's product page. Information about products is located on a flask server in a SQLAlchemy database, hosted on heroku
- - Developing a temporary network on the Kosciuszko Bridge, and the design of months of light shows
- - Miscellaneous networking tasks and the development of a fileserver for the office
Full Stack Engineering Intern
I did full-stack development work for Kassen Co., a YCombinator funded startup that created a lab information management system for medical marijuana testing laboratories. Most of my work was developing improvements to report generation across multiple platforms.
Freelance Software Engineer
Designed and developed a website for a client. Users of the site can create accounts, track people and places they've boycotted, vote on polls, and talk to other users. The project took about a month to complete, and the client is billed monthly for support and hosting costs. (Views expressed on the site are not my own.)
I ran and managed the CS lab for honors students. I maintained the network and computers and handled support requests. I also handled the migration of the lab and network across campus.
I worked in Vendor Risk Management at New York Community Bancorp. I automated some data entry, did some basic web design and helped the company transition from a 20,000 line spreadsheet to an online risk management system.
I was hired by the Garden City Union Free School District to upgrade and replace old computers across 7 schools in the district. This included physical maintenance as well as imaging and networking the new computers.
Designed, implemented and administrated a fully functional network in Kreon’s new factory/office complex in Bethpage, NY.
Projects
A project I spearheaded with a bunch of fellow interns while working at Datto. FoodTrax is a service that allows people to find their favorite food trucks in real time using standalone GPS trackers or a mobile app. We’re currently in the process of incorporating and deploying to the Rochester area first, so stay tuned!
A project built over 24 hours at a hackathon. Visualizes music from Spotify or Pandora on Philips Hue smart lights. Future work on this would use Spotify's API, instead of realtime audio processing.
The point of this project was to create a standard API for Philips Hue, LIFX, and Nanoleaf Lights in my apartment. As they all have their own REST API, I created a web server that could act as an intermediary to all 3 APIs.
Cat facts is a fun little python script that will send cat facts to a friend's phone. It uses the catfacts-api to fetch a list of Cat Facts, and uses the twillio web service to send the texts.
I created a web app that prompts for a user's credentials with SweetAlert, and pulls their dining transaction data using RIT's Dining Services API with Selenium with phantomJS. This data is put in a JSON file which is parsed and added into a database created and controled with SQLAlcemy and flask. The data is then requested by a basic webpage through a series of ajax requests and modeled with a series of c3 graphs. The database and site are hosted using Heroku's cloud application platform.