Jesse Berman
Full-Stack Software Developer
Professional Experience
Applications Developer/Team Lead
July 2024 - PresentAlpha Omega Integrations
- Partnered with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to support the Outcome-Based Delivery and DevSecOps Services (ODOS) program.
- Designed, developed, and supported the creation of new features, including 2 new data-driven dashboards for a Rails application that manages, tracks, and processes 100,000+ global refugee and asylum applications for the US government.
- Collaborate closely with Federal counterparts and an Agile team of 7 developers, product managers, and designers to translate stakeholder requests into implementable application enhancements and develop quarterly OKRs.
- Built dashboards to track and consolidate duplicate applications and monitor edits and corrections to duplicate applications made over time using Ruby on Rails, Stimulus.js, Rspec, capybara, and USWDS.
- Decreased manual interventions by 9% by creating improvements using Ruby on Rails, React, Stimulus, & Kafka.
- Wrote comprehensive tests within a Test-driven Development environment using Rspec and Capybara.
Software Engineer II
April 2022 - January 2024Morning Consult
- Defined and executed the technology roadmap, specifications, and milestones to build and launch MCPro, a subscription SaaS platform that provides data, charts, and insights on industry trends to 10,000+ active users.
- Built and implemented a Next.js frontend and a PHP API to display 40K+ articles from a custom WordPress CMS.
- Slashed page load times by 50% by spearheading code optimizations and test-driven development.
- Increased MOM revenue by 40% by enabling self-service subscriptions and memberships using Stripe SDK.
- Strengthened information security, protected data privacy, mitigated risk, and maintained compliance by developing and deploying an authentication and authorization system using OAuth, JWT, JWKS, and Next Auth.
- Streamlined frontend and backend deployments by developing and implementing a robust CI/CD pipeline.
Software Engineer II
April 2021 - March 2022Enovational
- Designed, developed, and deployed core features for Formability, a no-code form building and processing platform with 1M+ users managing 500+ forms across dozens of state agencies.
- Architected and delivered a drag-and-drop canvas to seamlessly build custom forms and workflows.
- Created and implemented record management, automated workflows, a custom document builder, electronic signature, built-in analytics/reporting, and custom notifications to improve usability and expand functionality.
- Improved stability by extending code coverage, fixing bugs, and building file snapshots to streamline debugging.
- Cultivated a collaborative, high-performance culture by establishing and strengthening the relationship between engineering, product, and design teams to deliver high-impact features and increase dev velocity.
Web Applications Developer
January 2020 - April 2021IMG-CROWN
- Built and implemented an interactive dashboard for Department of Energy employees to seamlessly load, process, sanitize, deploy, and analyze country-level energy data and utilization using Angular.
- Improved data quality by writing SQL functions to sanitize a database with 12M+ records on a monthly basis.
- Optimized analytics workflows by implementing automation to automatically update database units for cross-country calculations and comparisons, as well as record updates based on published data corrections.
- Served as the technical SME providing progress updates to stakeholders within the Department of Energy to ensure alignment on deliverable timeframes, scope fulfillment, and acceptance of all customer deliverables.