About Me
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Ex-Capital One Principal Associate, Ex-AT&T Senior Specialist Software Engineer
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9+ years of software development experience
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4+ years in Finance, Payments, eCommerce, Credit Cards, Fintech, and Banking
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Java, Java Spring, SQL, JavaScript, React.js, Typescript, Python, Node.js, Ruby
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Going back to graduate school for a second masters in Computer Science part-time
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Adopted South Korean American
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Family of U.S. Judges, Teachers, Mayors, Rare Metal Importers, Pilots, Officers, iPhone Patent Holders, Artists, Writers, Veterinarians, Nurses, Lawyers, Musicians, and Antique Car Restorers
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Independent Moderate (registered as such) for ~10 years
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Avid boardgamer, trading card collector, and plant guy
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Experience working with Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence tools
Fun Stats
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Honor percentile: Top 0.383%, 2 kyu - Codewars - Leaderboard position: #2,711
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8 badges earned - LinkedIn - Must be top 30% of test-takers to earn
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Rank 69,674 / 5,059,951 - HackerRank - Practice Score 1456.56
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Rank 132,568 - LeetCode - Easy problems solved beats 99.2%, medium problems solved beats 94.48% - (no longer active on this site)
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X7.5 average user - CodeSignal - Job screen score of 528 (New Scale) at the top ~15% of test-takers
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Rank 348,678 / 28,939,178 - StackOverflow - 746 reputation
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72 problems originally solved - Project Euler - Top 2.779%
Work History
- Recent, Partial Work History
- Complete Work History Available Upon Request.
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Software Engineer - Veterans United (2025-10 to 2025+)
- Columbia, MO - Full Time, Hybrid
- Ongoing
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Senior Software Engineer - Capital One (through testing platform Hired.com) (2023-02 to 2024-04)
- Richmond, VA - Full Time, Remote
- Java, React, Spring, Snowflake, Splunk, Python, AWS, Docker, Terraform
- Serverless stack migration, features for top credit card, financial security and compliance
- $M’s saved for customers/company through payment scheduling features, enterprise-wide platform tooling
- Card Tech Team Hackathon Winner, top 5 shoutouts from Payments org Q3 and Q4 2023
- Departed with performance bonuses
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Technical Writer III - Aquent (at Microsoft Research AI Content and Strategy) (2022-06 to 2022-08-15)
- Redmond, WA - Contract, Remote
- .NET, Machine Learning, Documentation Tooling, JavaScript, Node.js, Markdown, Azure, Jupyter Notebook
- Documentation, product, document tooling
- Completed requirements early
- Contract extended through end of year
- Voluntary departure
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Software Engineer II - Amount (through testing platform Hired.com) (2020-06 to 2021-03)
- Chicago, IL - Full Time, Remote
- Ruby, Rails, RSpec, PostGres, AWS, GitHub, GraphQL, Python, Docker
- Backend, data analyst, data quality, loan servicing
- Work helped to bring in new Wall Street bank, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Performance bonuses
- Voluntary departure
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Programmer Writer III - Aquent (at Microsoft Azure IoT) (2018-08 to 2020-02-28)
- Redmond, WA - Contract, Remote
- .NET, Documentation, JavaScript, Node.js, REST APIs, Azure, Markdown
- Documentation, product, service management (self-managed), testing, SDK's, code samples, UI/UX
- Both Azure Digital Twins and Azure Time Series Insights went from Preview to General Availability
- Contract extended to the maximum 18 months
- Contract completed
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Software Engineer - D3 Banking (2014-07 to 2015-04)
- Omaha, NE - Full Time, Onsite
- Java, Java Spring, ActionScript, AWS, MSSQL, GitHub, Ant
- Scaled to ~200 Banks, ~200K users, assigned tactical objectives met: $M’s funding secured
- Contract, Conversion to Full Time, Promotion
- Voluntary departure
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Graduate Assistant - Northern Illinois University (Graduate Assistant to the Chair of the AHCD) (2012-08 to 2013-05)
- DeKalb, IL - Part Time, Onsite, Student
- Center for the Deaf Blind administrative duties, Graduate Assistant, Federal grant compliance
- Helen Keller National Center Liaison, selected university-wide for the role
- Maximum weekly hours allowed
- Completed education
Education
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Arizona State University - Math and Computer Science - Non-Degree Student (2025+)
- For credit, course(s) I tested out of before/prereqs for a second Master's
- Specific course(s) listed below, 4.0 GPA
- Statistics, Probability, Data Structures, Algorithms, Calculus, Discrete Math, etc.
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Northern Illinois University - Philosophy - M.A. (2010 to 2014)
- ~14 Accepted / ~375 Total Applicants, also won campus-wide competition for a Graduate Assistantship
- Academic publications, reviewer, and conferences in multiple fields
- Coursework completed 2013, received degree 2014, ~3.8/4.0 GPA
- Considered among the top/strongest Terminal M.A. Philosophy programs
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Iowa State University - English Literature - B.A. (2003 to 2009)
- Won scholarship, poetry journal editor
- Academic publications and conferences in multiple fields
- Took 1 year off ~2006 (to work full time)
Humanities Degrees in 2024:
Continuing Education:
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Arizona State University - Math 265: Calculus for Engineers - Calculus, Asymptotes, Limits, Derivatives, etc. For credit. (TBD)
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Arizona State University - Computer Science and Engineering 110: Principles of Programming - Java, OOD, Programming; Basic Search, Sort, DSA. A+. For credit. (2025-08-15)
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Arizona State University - Math 117: College Algebra - Logarithms, Parabolic Graphs, Exponents; Polynomial, Quadratic, Functions/Composition. A+. For credit. (2025-08-15)
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Arizona State University - Math 142: College Mathematics - Statistics, Probability, Set Theory, Amortization, Geometry, etc. A+. For credit. (2025-05-07)
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Coursera (DeepLearning.AI) - Structuring Machine Learning Projects (2020-08-11)
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Coursera (University of California, Irvine) - Programming with Google Go - Specialization (2020-08-08)
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Coursera (DeepLearning.AI) - Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization (2020-07-15)
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Coursera (DeepLearning.AI) - Neural Networks and Deep Learning (2020-06-19)
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Coursera (University of Michigan) - Python for Everybody - Specialization (2020-06-10)
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Coursera (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - Accelerated Computer Science Fundamentals - Specialization (2020-05-28)
Selected Awards, Memberships, and Honors
Skill- and Knowledge-Based Assessments
Selected Publications
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(2021) Gravitational Documentation - GoLang, React, JavaScript
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(2018-2020) Azure Digital Twins Documentation - Markdown, Azure, IoT
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(2018) Quantum Computation - Python, Quantum Computing, Angular
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(2018) Procedural Generation - Procedural Generation, Games
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(2018) From CMS to WAF - WordPress, React, JavaScript
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(2018) Lightweight Web3j Clients - Java, ERC20, Web3, Cryptocurrency
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(2018) A Quick Jump into Blockchain and ERC20 - React, ERC20, Ganache, Ethereum
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(2017) Reactive Support: WebSession - Java, Reactive Spring Boot
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(2017) Spring Dispatcher Servlet - Java, Spring
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(2017) Intro to Neuroph - Java, Machine Learning
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(2017) Intro to EthereumJ - Java, ERC20, Web3, Cryptocurrency
Code Samples
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(2025) Rossby.info - AWS, React.js, Terraform, Serverless, Python, SQL, ETL Data Pipelines, Node.js, GeoJSON - Already among the very best ZIP Code datasets, delightfully serving over ~.25M+ Requests, RSS Wildfire and Disaster Trackers provided as a Free Public Service, supplementing + safeguarding but not supplanting important Gov. data, Rent Optimizer, Location Finders, critical disaster mirror/relay
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(2024+) Python uvicorn FastAPI Container for Project Euler - I use this to solve (and perhaps more importantly prove) my Project Euler solutions
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(2023+) C++, Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Algorithms, SQL, AWS, Azure, Engineering - Hosted study notes and code sample links
Selected Open Source Contributions
Professional and Academic References
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References available upon request.
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