Noah Lloyd-Edelman

Senior Software EngineerFront-End ArchitectUX Designer

Profile

noah

A results-driven software engineer with proven success in e-commerce, business optimization, post-graduate education, localization, augmented and virtual reality, war gaming, and catastrophe simulation. Skilled in agile project management, user-experience design, teaching, technical writing, and video editing.

Currently a senior software engineer who maintains five web applications for an FinTech company which has facilitated more than 400,000 loans worth more than $9 billion in revenue.

When not in front of a computer, you’ll find me cooking, playing board games or D&D, kayaking, traveling the world, and reading in a park.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

RateGenius + The Savings Group + AutoPay

May 2018 - Present || Austin, TX

  • Developing web applications using JavaScript (ECMAScript 2021), Vue.js, and Node.js.
  • Designed and developed multiple on-boarding applications which increased customer conversions, in all segments, from 8% up to 165%
  • Optimized hardware and software to reduce page load times by a factor of 10x, build time by 43%, and package overhead by 17%.
  • Managed projects with teams of two to five people, to deliver large features or major refactors.
  • Adopted and maintained internal style guides, software coding standards, developer documentation, code debugging, and quality checking tools to maintain a stable and uniform code base.
  • Worked with the CPO, CMO, DoE, and other head executives to translate designs into front-end applications and websites.
  • Teaching five developers front-end web development.

Senior Educational Programmer & Analyst

General Dynamics Information Technology + Naval Postgraduate School + MKS2

January 2017 - May 2018 || Monterey, CA

  • Designed and developed education and simulation software using React.js, Node.js, Python, and Django.
  • Lead designer and developer for a war game simulator. It was presented twice at The Pentagon and used in a postgraduate tactics course.
  • Developed and delivered a natural disaster (hurricane) simulator in collaboration with the Department of Defense and NOAA to the US Army and multiple city governments.
  • Created and deployed a web application to hundreds of US Marine Corps Reserve bases, which simplified several hundred clerical work flows and thousands of forms and documents, into an interactive three-step checklist.
  • Developed and delivered dozens of small applications which were used in courses at the school.

Customer Success Engineer

Transifex

October 2014 - September 2015 || Menlo Park, CA

  • Updated the documentation, search engine, and marketing websites on a weekly basis, which significantly reduced customer churn by 40% and support traffic by 35%.
  • Handled ~47% support traffic while maintaining the highest volume of answered tickets and the highest customer satisfaction ratings for several consecutive months.
  • Worked as a sales engineer for several months to find optimal software integrations for customers.
  • Implemented targeted workflows and monitoring to optimize support traffic. Traffic went from 500 unanswered tickets, to full resolution within 6-48 hours over a five month period.
  • Taught both technical and non-technical customers about best software practices, optimal product workflows, and performed real-time debugging and application setup for an optimal platform experience.

Human-Computer Interaction Researcher

United States Navy + Naval Postgraduate School

June 2008 - August 2011 || Monterey, CA

  • Updated two department websites multiple times per week concerning project updates, department news, event notices, and staff changes.
  • Teaching assistant for CS3004: Human Computer Interaction for two quarters.
  • Created workshops, built instructional websites, and wrote dozens of user manuals for virtual and augmented reality devices.
  • Handled website and IT requests, concerns, and inquiries of approx. 75 employees on a daily basis.
  • Supervised several summer interns by assigning tasks, mentoring, and monitoring project development for two years.
  • Presented projects to sponsors and VIP visitors approximately two times per month.

Skills

JavaScript
  • JavaScript (ECMAScript 2021), TypeScript, Node.js, Webpack, Babel
  • Vue (Vuex), React (Redux), Express.js
  • jQuery, Grunt, Passport.js
Python
  • Django, Flask
  • SQLAlchemy, BeautifulSoup, Requests, Pillow, Jupyter
  • Gunicorn
Prototyping
  • Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Adobe XD, Balsamiq, Visio, LucidChart
General
  • JIRA, Trello, Excel
  • Git, Github, Gitlab
  • Docker, Nginx
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
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Graduated: 2013

California State University, Monterey Bay

Undergrad in Computer Science and Psychology
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Projects

Side Projects
Hackathons
Publication Mentions

Case Studies

Managing a cross-company software integration
Optimizing a support department through analytic insight and customer interaction
Increasing support performance through documentation optimization

Contact & Resume

Resume

Click here for my resume

Email

Web [at] NoahLE [.] com

Austin, Texas - USA

Blog

My notes, recipes, and other random stuff