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Software engineer · Boston
Hi! I’m a software engineer based in Boston. I’m currently working at CapTech Consulting. I’m passionate about web development, and am always looking for new opportunities to learn and grow.
I’m currently working on a few personal projects, including this website. I’m using it as a platform to showcase my work and share my thoughts on various topics.
If you have any questions, ask my assistant using the chat bubble in the corner, or drop me a line directly!
A site built to teach sailors and other Mariners basic rules of the road
On this site users orient two sailboats on the page using a drag, drop, and rotate interface. Once positioned, the application identifies which boat has right of way and explains why.
Darling Charters Website
Developed a Webflow site for a new Charter Yacht Business in Annapolis Maryland with online booking
Senior Consultant at CapTech, Remote - Boston
At a top 3 credit card company worked to migrate millions of accounts from an acquired bank to the financial core system. This involved a large ETL process. I led the design of a dry-run system which allowed us to test the migration process without impacting production data. This system was built using GoLang and AWS services such as AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and Glue jobs running Java Spring Boot.
Senior Consultant at CapTech, Remote - Boston
Worked on a five person backend development team to create an entirely new account creation service for a new financial core system at a top 3 credit card company & Top 10 consumer bank. This was a part of a core bank modernization project. Our section of this project involved creating and tokenizing bank account numbers. We integrated with an internal account ID and tokenization service and managed the deployment of three services in the client's AWS instance to handle this process. Entirely greenfield development project we took from zero to enterprise production application in 6 months. - Lead the system design and implementation of a buffer feature using GoLang concurrency and buffered channels which reduced account creation request response times by a factor of 7x. - Created a REST API with the net/http GoLang package. - System required 'platinum resiliency': it needed to be capable of failing over to one region within 15 minutes and without downtime. - System designed to handle millions of account opening requests per month. - Postgres database in AWS was designed for a capacity of approximately 200mm accounts. - Performed on-call production support activities using PagerDuty. Investigated and resolved issues with CloudWatch and custom CloudWatch Insights. - Testing: unit tests in GoLang, contract tests with PactFlow, component and live dependency tests with Behave (Python), and performance tests with JUnit.
@CapTech for a Midsize Bank
Designed, and developed two software solutions to systematize commercial account maintenance and openings for a leading Financial Services Company listed in the Forbes Global 2000 with 80 bn AUM. These tools allowed commercial bankers to make requests to the account servicing team such as modifying an account type or creating a new client account of a specific type such as a commercial checking or lending account. - Scale: Tools managed hundreds of requests within the initial two weeks of deployment and scaled to thousands of requests with over 2,000 users in the following year. - Reporting: Tools provided reporting on previously unknown KPIs such as the distribution of maintenance request types. - Result: New process and tools drove a 20% reduction in servicing time for core account maintenance request types.
ChatGPT Generated Recipes
Aiming to offer an alternative to recipe sites crammed with useless stories and ads, this site is radically minimal. Just type any recipe and get a list of ingredients and instructions. Under the hood these recipes are generated using the openAI api.
Find the genre of any song
I am an avid playlister in Spotify. I like to organize my favorite songs by genre among other things, but in the app there is not way to find the genre of a song. However Spotify has artist genre’s in the backend and exposes them through an api. This app makes it easy to find the genre of what you’re listening to now, or search a song and determine its genre. It is built using NextJS and a client-side authentication api hosted in Google Cloud.
@CapTech Shotlander Golf Scoring Application
Developed Frontend for ‘Dangerzone’ golf minigame used in Shotlander Golf tournament tracking application. Collaborated with a team of 12.
@CapTech for Richmond Data Management Association
Created React Frontend for Richmond Data Management Association. Implemented state management using React Toolkit
Quick Wordle Clone Based on Bird Calls
Think you can identify a Carolina Wren based on its call? Try your luck with Birdle. The app invites users to guess the name of a bird based on its call and the number of letters. Built using Create React App ~10 hours
@Captech for a top 5 U.S. Bank
Developed a controls logging and monitoring dashboard for a top 3 US Bank using PowerBI • Consolidated data from disparate systems to forecast risk effectiveness based on constituent control effectiveness • Ethan owned the agile delivery of a risk modeling PowerBI dashboard to SVP level clients through weekly technical demos
A parody of blockchain and digital land startup sites
With its origins in jest, this site was built to poke fun at the plethora of blockchain startups selling 'digital land' and other imaginary assets in the digital world. Intentionally minimal, the site is built with just html, css in an afternoon. The most interesting feature of the site is the dynamic background which is animated using d3.
An app to sort Spotify playlists
Sort the songs in your Spotify playlists using JamSort! The application can re-order songs in a playlist based on energy, danceability, key, and more. The re-sorted playlist can overwrite the existing playlist or be saved as a new one. Connects to Spotify using the api and visualizes song levels using d3.
@CapTech for top 5 Energy Utility Company
Ethan led the agile design and development of an augmented reality application for a top 5 U.S. energy company. The application serves to enhance customer communications and assist in acquiring property easements.