Melissa Patterson

• Phoenix
• Elixir
• LiveView
• React
• TypeScript
• GraphQL
• PostgreSQL
• Tailwind

Led or significantly contributed to large feature releases, typically multi-person projects that cross team boundaries range in complexity, scale, and uncertainty. Participated in design review process seeking and providing constructive criticism. Crossed team and service boundaries to solve problems, building relationships with stakeholders including cross-functional and external partners. Contributor to the strategic direction, planning, and road map escalating issues and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success. Mentored to other engineers and elevated those around me.

• Built a suite of new self service features in LiveView with a strong focus on accessibility for our target audience, seniors
• Trailblazer for LiveView architecture, infrastructure, and code standards for engineering organization
• Instrumented metrics and monitoring for senior application for rapid identification and alerts leading to quicker resolutions for system issues and bugs
• Setup and managed reverse proxy and asset hosting configurations for senior application
• Collaborated closely with design stakeholder to build a fully accessible styleguide and base component library in LiveView
• Advocated amongst peer and senior engineers for best practices in both Elixir and React codebases, mentored junior engineers through direct feedback, code review, and pair programming
• Stretched across organizational boundaries to build a prototype and propose an architecturual approach for a real-time collobaritive feature for support team to assist seniors in navigating the web

• Phoenix
• Elixir
• React
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• Rails
• GraphQL
• PostgreSQL

Responsible for entire lifecycle of projects, design, development, and deployment. Improved code structure and architecture in order to improve testability and maintainability. Wrote, co-wrote, and reviewed design documentation. Worked within and outside of team to solve problems and escalate wider scoped issues as they arose. Mentored junior engineers through pair programing and direct feedback.

• Engineering lead for team of 7, collaborated hand in hand with product lead
• Mentored junior engineers by giving architecture guidance and setting high level expectations
• Identified key metrics to track team productivity and efficiency, allowing for more insightful and effective process improvements
• Provided high level estimates on project delivery
• Pivoted between major front and back end initiatives
• Led department-wide continuous learning series

• React
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• Rails
• GraphQL
• PostgreSQL

Full stack individual contributor responsible for designing, shipping, and maintaining features. Improved development experience by enhancing tooling, test coverage, and code structure.

• Collaborated hand in hand with product to define and refine user needs
• Introduced testing mindset, added unit testing to react components and automated linting
• Improved code quality and a streamlined coding style
• Architect of basic component library with design team to achieve consistently styled and accessible UI components

• Angular
• TypeScript
• Material
• Python
• Django
• PostgreSQL

Individual contributor responsible for designing, shipping, and maintaining features.

• Led small/medium feature project letters of recommendation

• JavaScript
• React
• Angular
• SCSS
• Python
• Django
• PostgreSQL

Individual contributor responsible for developing, testing, debugging, and monitoring features.

• Maintained CMS for all 5 Onion Inc brands using Django, React, and Angular 1
• Aided in implementation of re-usable React component library for rapid feature delivery and consistent product design
• Designed and implemented infinite scroll feature

• Ruby
• Rails
• JavaScript
• HMTL
• XML
• PostgreSQL

Individual contributor responsible for developing, testing, debugging and monitoring features.

• Implemented recurring mailer feature, increasing web traffic

• Lasers
• Physics
• Leadership
• Linux
• Bash

Commissioned officer responsible for evaluation, training, and acquisition of DoD lasers.

• Lead laser safety office for Air Force Research Lab, Air Force Materiel Command
• Evaluated lasers and laser training ranges for acquisition by US Depart of Defense
• Analyzed various experiment outcomes using bash scripting
• Rigorous leadership training in a variety of high pressure scenarios
• Melted many things with lasers