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Open Source Developer
Mozilla Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
January 2024 - Current
â—¦ Worked on Firefox browser toolkits in JavaScript and C++. Improved reader mode functionality by rolling out a custom themes menu and adding accessibility features, leveraging Mercurial for version control and Phabricator for collaboration.
â—¦ Developed custom unit and integration tests using Mocha to validate new features and code changes. Utilized in-house CI/CD tools to automate the testing process.
Software Engineer
Littledrop
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 2023 - January 2024
â—¦ Utilized Node.js and TypeScript to develop scalable backends for multiple web projects, leveraging JWT and OAuth2 for authentication and Redis for session management/caching
â—¦ Enhanced performance of the client management portal by reducing database query latencies by over 200% through indexing essential items in the existing PostgreSQL database.