Full-Stack Software Engineer at Renaissance Learning (EdTech SaaS)

Designed, developed, and maintained full-stack features using Angular, TypeScript, and Node.js with REST APIs in a large-scale SaaS environment. Implemented in-product analytics using Pendo by instrumenting the frontend and integrating with backend data pipelines for product reporting. Led UI modernization using Tailwind CSS to improve performance, accessibility, and maintainability across repositories. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure Pipelines with automated smoke tests and release validation. Integrated frontend components with backend services for pagination, sorting, filtering, and validation, collaborating on API contracts and error handling. Engineered a resilient, multi-backend LLM pipeline for multimodal NLP extraction (text + vision) using sentence-transformer embeddings, FAISS vector search, and re-ranking, achieving 50%+ high-confidence alignment accuracy across 1,000+ items. Optimized LLM inference costs/latency using constrained outputs, structured JSON sche

Full-Stack Software Engineer at Renaissance Learning

Designed, developed, and maintained full-stack features using Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and REST APIs in a large-scale SaaS environment. Implemented in-product analytics using Pendo to support product analytics and reporting. Led UI modernization using Tailwind CSS for performance, accessibility, and maintainability across repositories. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure Pipelines with automated smoke tests and release validation. Integrated frontend components with backend services supporting server-side pagination, sorting, and validation. Collaborated with backend engineers to define API contracts, improve error handling, and optimize data flow. Conducted code reviews, mentored junior engineers, and championed best practices. Worked in Agile/Scrum teams.