Julia Hogan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Julia is a full-stack engineer with a varied background, from working on legacy APIs serving global customers and processing billions of transactions per second to greenfield websites for small companies spun up in a week. She's tech agnostic and cares about aligning with her partners' priorities and needs. She brings experience in distributed teams, focus on outcomes to every project, and leverages strong communication skills, adaptability, and problem-solving to deliver success.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...non-technical skill I've acquired is spotting miscommunications or misunderstandings and helping bring about shared understanding.
Work Experience
Full-stack Developer
Bloom Works
- Built and launched a behavior and mental healthcare search tool built in TypeScript and React over a 1-month sprint, including discovery, research, and development.
- Expanded existing Gatsby site, serving as a sole engineer for delivery of features derived from post-launch user research and client feedback.
- Revamped a client's Jekyll website to match an updated design specification, with a 1-week turnaround time.
Full-stack Developer and Team Lead
Skylight Digital
- Led a multidisciplinary team of seven through a pilot launch of a data collection application for state-funded child care providers through to successful full launch resulting in a record >95% compliance with data reporting.
- Ensured HIPAA, IDEA, and FERPA security standards were met by the TypeScript and Express server, AWS-hosted infrastructure, and identity server authentication provider.
- Took part in high-level strategic planning to balance strategic outcomes with technical feasibility as a technical engagement manager.
Full-stack Developer
NYCPlanningLabs
- Contributed to open source data visualization and city planning tools built to empower planners and citizens of New York City like FactFinder, Zola New York City's Zoning & Land Use Map, and Zoning Application Portal.
- Dockerized development environments and data processing workflows to increase development speed and ease and reduce friction in running data transformations.
- Integrated a JavaScript back-end application with Microsoft SOAP API, enabling our open source responsive Ember.js front end to pull more accurate and current data.
Software Engineer and Software Engineer II
Xandr
- Increased test suite stability from <50% to 100% reliably passing runs on master and increased automation around build and deploy processes, adding production smoke tests and updating Jenkins pipelines.
- Maintained a legacy PHP monolith API, including reviewing pull requests from multiple product teams developing services in the core API, and fixing production issues to ensure high availability for global customers in many time zones.
- Helped to implement a Java process identification number (PID) controller to improve budget pacing, drastically reducing overspending across the platform, and built numerous Python batch processing jobs using Pandas.
Experience
OwnPath by Colorado Behavioral Health Administration
http://ownpath.coI managed the development and data processing and supported teammates in setting up analytics, deployments and infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. I collaborated with a designer on features, balancing accessibility best practices, feedback from user testing, and the client asks with technical feasibility on a short delivery timeline.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Bowdoin College - Brunswick, ME, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React, Pandas, NumPy
Tools
Terraform, Google Analytics, RabbitMQ, Jenkins
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL, Python, PHP
Frameworks
Express.js, Ember.js, Next.js, Material UI, Tailwind CSS
Platforms
Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB
Other
Critical Thinking, Full-stack Development, Full-stack, Web Development, Front-end, Back-end, Mentorship, Data Structures, Algorithms, Back-end Development, Front-end Development, Software Project Management
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