OLIVIA HOULIHAN

Motivated and confident individual who finds passion in programming Agile teams. Proven leader who integrates well into new teams with different technical & product backgrounds and cultures. Looking to contribute to a company as a developer using agile techniques for developing great products while continuing to learn in a tech-first environment.

EXPERIENCE

The Knot Worldwide, Remote — Software Engineer

OCTOBER 2019 - PRESENT

  • Part of the Couples Marketplace team practicing Agile techniques to build and ship large features.
  • Lead monitoring of accessibility on Marketplace pages
  • Lead on multiple large features and experiments.

The Knot Worldwide, New York — Associate Software Engineer

OCTOBER 2018 - OCTOBER 2019

  • Part of the Core Services team practicing Agile techniques.
  • Handled many of TKWW's Rails APIs.
  • Worked with React between rebuilding current admin tool and contributing to TKWW's internal design library.
  • Replatforming existing projects on the Registry Activation team to use more modern technologies and better fit agile workflow needs.

The Knot Worldwide, New York — Software Engineering Intern

JUNE 2018 - OCTOBER 2018

  • Part of the Core Services team practicing Agile techniques.
  • Handled many of TKWW's Rails APIs.
  • Helped integrate Braze API into current applications.
  • Rebuilt current admin tool to better fit client needs and overall improvement of performance using Express and React.

EDUCATION

Dev Bootcamp, San Francisco

2017

  • Completed 1000+ hours in an immersive agile full-stack web development certification program while learning problem-solving as well as the core values associated with engineering empathy.
  • Developed multi-page web applications using MVC patterns.
  • Integrated user authentication and worked with backend database architecture.

South Seattle Community College, Seattle

2016 - 2017

Electrical Engineering

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

2013 - 2016

Electrical Engineering

Relevant Courses: Electric Circuit Analysis I & II, Basic Electronics Manufacturing, Computer Engineering 101, Calculus I, II, III, & IV.

PROJECTS

Olivia Houlihan Website

Web application for housing resume and information about myself as a software engineer. Built with Next.js, React with Typescript, and Docker. Cursor (AI-first IDE) was utilized for development, leveraging AI-assisted coding and debugging to complete the project and optimize Typescript component logic rapidly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • GraphQL

Frontend Technologies

  • React
  • Next.js
  • HTML/CSS

Backend Technologies

  • Node.js
  • Hapi

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB

Project Management Tools

  • Jira
  • Pivotal
  • Trello

Additional

  • Mobile web development
  • Accessibility monitoring
  • Performance monitoring (New Relic, Grafana, Sumo Logic, Kubernetes)