Melissa Patterson

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

Led and significantly contributed to large feature releases, typically multi-person projects that cross team boundaries range in complexity, scale, and uncertainty. Contributor to the strategic direction, planning, and road map. Escalating issues and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success. Mentor to junior engineers.

• Observability leader, instrumented monitoring for rapid identification and alerts to detect issues before users report them.
• Built a new user facing application with suite of new self service features in LiveView with a strong focus on accessibility for our target audience, seniors.
• Instrumented reverse proxy for hosting new app on existing DNS infrastructure.
• Established automated pipeline for generating and hosting assets on AWS during deploy process for liveview application.
• Trailblazer for LiveView architecture, infrastructure, and code standards for engineering organization.
• 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
• AWS
• 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. Worked across domains 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, worked hand in hand with product lead.
• Mentored junior engineers by giving architecture guidance, setting expectations, and providing timely feedback.
• Identified key metrics to track team productivity and efficiency, allowing for more insightful and effective process improvements.
• Intrumented vertical development delivery method enabling engineers to grow while improving efficiency and reducing knowledge silos.
• Led company-wide continuous learning series and product demo.

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

• 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 feature projects.

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

• Maintained CMS for all 5 Onion Inc brands using 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 designing, shipping, and maintaining 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
• Lead laser safety office for Air Force Research Lab.
• Evaluated lasers and laser training ranges for acquisition by US Department of Defense.
• Rigurous leadership training in a variety high pressure scenarios.
• Melted a lot of things with lasers.