· 6 years ago · Oct 26, 2019, 03:50 AM
1# Kayla Ecker
2kaylajayecker@gmail.com
3Tel: 702-601-5807
4Seattle, WA
5
6## Technical Skills
7
8*Best Practices*: Agile Development, SCRUM, Incident Management, Object-Oriented Design, Test Driven Development
9
10*Tools used*: Jira, Trello, Zendesk, Confluence, Bitbucket/Stash, Grafana, Figma, Draw.io
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12*Languages/Frameworks used*: Javascript, HTML, CSS, Java, Python, Go, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Android Studio, Terraform, Stackdriver, Firebase, Docker
13
14## Technical Experience
15
16### Redfin
17August 2018 - Present
18*Software Engineer (RedfinNow team)*
19* Team functions as a start up within Redfin, resulting in unique involvement with business needs from high-level strategy roadmaps to implementation details
20* Participate in costing and prioritization of future projects, biweekly demos with key high-level stakeholders, sprint reviews, bug bashes, and backlog grooming
21* Use of research and data analysis to create product and tech specs, which break large projects into iterable solutions
22* Analysis of data to define metrics for improved performance and quality dashboards and creation of applicable guides, templates and documentation
23* Implement specified full-stack features for high profile projects. Technical responsibilities include: Database/schema migrations, owning both customer and internal facing flows, creation of a scalable photo manager used both internally and externally, quality and integration plan development and testing
24
25**Technical contribution and shareable impact for recent projects:**
26
27*Self Guided Tours*
28* Responsible for scope, design, implementation and testing for SMS-based service to allow authorized building entry for self-guided tours
29* Designed a service-appropriate relational schema that integrated with external legacy databases
30* Built and deployed a scalable web API to process requests from a Twilio-based SMS bridge
31* Created web interfaces for customer facing authorization flow and internal management tools
32* Impact: Used for 41% percent of tours for RedfinNow properties. Of the requests for self-guided tours, 78% came from new contacts
33
34*Remote Cash Offers*
35* Created a photo management system in Javascript and React, allowing users to upload photos for employees to view and edit. This system enabled cash offers to be made remotely based on photo review.
36* Impact: 20% increase in completed questionnaires. Internal buyers saved 50% offer generation time, improving overall offer timeline by up to 20%.
37
38### Google
39Feb 2018 - July 2018
40*SRE/Software Engineer Intern (Cloud Conversion team)*
41* Drove the creation of a plugin between Stackdriver and Terraform; developed a customizable library for scaling automated alerting and monitoring policies, taken from conception to internal product launch
42* Created a tagging system for clusters in core Kubernetes
43* Developed clarity around project’s root requirements and submitted a design proposal which analyzed objectives, requirements, scale, and alternatives
44* Strong and complete documentation, including creation and deliverance of both a presentation and how to guide for a new team technology (Terraform)
45* International cross-team collaboration to ensure proper project integration
46* Analyzed data to define metrics for improved monitoring and dashboards
47
48## Non-Technical Prior Work Experience
49
50**State of Nevada**
512013 - 2017
52*Family Services Specialist 2*
53* Project planning, Collaboration and Buy-in: Managed a caseload 46% above average while negotiating for cross-departmental and cross-agency support. Broke down high level goals into achievable incremental markers to define success metrics
54* Public Speaking: Developed and presented conference-style talks to 200+ attendees
55
56**MedicWest**
572010 - 2013
58*EMT and Emergency Dispatch*
59* Team Management, Task Prioritization: Lead crews of up to 30 2-person teams, determined priority order in busy emergency system (population of nearly 2 million with a new emergency response every 5 minutes, on average)
60* Emergency and Incident Management: Maintained calm during analysis, de-escalation and triage of emergency situations.
61
62## Education
63
64**University of Nevada, Las Vegas**
65B.A. Psychology, Statistics and Research
66Honors: Summa Cum Laude
67
68**Ada Developers Academy**
69Full-Stack Software Development student in a highly selective (under 10%), intensive (full-time, year long) program