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)