I joined IKEA's US Digital Hub launch in the summer of 2020 as a software engineer. My team worked on ikea.com's cart and checkout front end experience. One of our most abitious features was product pick-up from FedEx locations, to ease supply chain restraints during the COVID pandemic.

My passion for mentoring my fellow engineers and collaborating on cross-team initiatives was noticed, and I was promoted to Tech Lead in February 2021. In this role I was held responsible for all code published from my team, defined best practices for code style, version control, code review etiquette, and of course offered an open door policy if any of my engineers needed help!

I interned at JP Morgan Chase & Co. during the summer of 2018. While there, I made a really cool Python script for my team to easily delete build artifacts from their complex continuous integration pipeline. Senior devs liked it so much they asked me to expand it to be a web application so every developer in our line of business could use it! I used Flask as my server-side engine, and Jinja2 as my templating engine.

I deployed my web application to the internal cloud infrastructure, which was based on Cloud Foundry technology. I also hooked in a logging microservice with the help of Splunk, so we could keep track of how many times my application was used (spoiler, it was a lot!).