Personal details

Wayne L. - Remote full-stack developer

Wayne L.

Based in: 🇺🇸 United States
Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-4)

Summary

I've been working as a software engineer for 8+ years, mainly focused on web application development and some systems development, in NYC and Boston. Have had full-time roles at 4 startups and 1 corporation. I come from a strong computer science background, having graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.

My experience lies both in computer science fundamentals and shipping projects end-to-end as a full stack generalist - frontend, backend, data, and SRE. Having worked at startups, I've learned to be versatile, doing some minor product and project management as well. In addition, I've launched 3 full stack side projects.

With 4 years of experience mentoring other engineers, I've conducted 50+ technical interviews and have been interviewed 20+ times.

I enjoy helping others - it's fulfilling to help others level up while also helping my own continuous learning!

Some potential areas I can help with:

  • brushing up on computer science fundamentals
  • preparing for software engineering interviews (data structures and algorithms coding problems, system design, behavioral)
  • pair programming on a project, recommending best practices for frontend, backend, data, and SRE
  • code review
  • debugging
  • testing
  • resume review
  • career strategy consultation

Work Experience

Software Engineer, Tech Lead
VTS | Mar 2020 - Present
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
React
Apache Kafka
Market platform
Software Engineer
Namely | Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
HTML/CSS
Python
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Redis
Docker
JavaScript
Apache Kafka
Kubernetes
Go (Golang)
* Lead engineer in designing and implementing a microservice decomposition project (Golang, Ruby, C#, Kafka, gRPC) to streamline the user experience of setting up new clients and adopt an event-driven architecture * Lead engineer in designing and implementing an internal tool (Golang) that listens for Spinnaker deployment events and outputs metadata with integrations with Google Sheets, GitHub, and JIRA for release activity monitoring * Designed and implemented a library to standardize logging and integrate APM tools across multiple services * Implemented a CMS to manage permissions for a new internal tools auth system * Implemented various features across Namely’s suite of internal tools * Hackathons * 2018 - 3rd place - Lead engineer - Sentiment analysis on performance reviews using machine learning * 2017 - Team lead - Similar task detection in JIRA using natural language processing