Email: me@rjb.tech
Location: Tennessee, United States
Work Experience
Software Engineer -> Team Lead/Senior Software Engineer
Future Capital (March 2023 - Present)
- Significantly enhanced participant data security by implementing AES-256-GCM for at-rest SQL Server encryption and x25519/xChaCha20-Poly1305 for in-transit encryption.
- Architected and led a 3+ month project to build a scalable and concurrent distributed system leveraging Docker, Playwright, React, RabbitMQ, Node.js, .NET, and Azure Container Apps to automate previously manual operations for direct-to-consumer retirement accounts (e.g. Fidelity and Empower) such as trading, downloading funds, and modifying future elections.
- Largely increased average assets under management per signup by engineering a streamlined, multi-account signup flow using React and .NET to replace the previous single-account solution.
- Spearheaded a critical fullstack project integrating Yodlee FastLink across account management dashboards and signup flows, resolving a major outage for clients owning accounts on Open Banking enabled distributors like Fidelity and TIAA.
- Drove a 4% increase in direct-to-consumer signup conversion by executing a complete overhaul of the React-based onboarding flow, serving as the sole technical lead and collaborating closely with the head of product using Figma to implement redesigned user interfaces.
- Decreased post-release bugs by introducing automated test suites for our .NET backend (Moq and Xunit) and React-based dashboard (playwright) for use within our Azure Devops pipelines for pull request validation.
Fullstack Engineer I and II
Balto (December 2021 - December 2022)
- Led development of a audio-related product from design to production that saw 30,000 minutes of usage within 2 weeks of launch.
- Utilized SQLAlchemy to write efficient ORM SQL queries for FastAPI and Flask endpoints
- Demonstrated new products and services to engineering and product leadership teams, showcasing features and capabilities and explaining the potential benefits and value to the organization.
- Collaborated with other teams and departments to ensure timely and successful product releases, coordinating efforts and resources, and communicating effectively with stakeholders.
- Contributed to a scalable and maintainable component library using React, Redux, and Semantic UI.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Audio Production, Computer Science minor
Middle Tennessee State University (2019)