Hello! I'm Michelle and I'm a software engineer.

Education

Led Etsy's OpenAI feed variations project, identifying a ~3B-row scaling issue and driving a pivot to a scalable sharded Parquet architecture across product, analytics, platform, and OpenAI teams
Led frontend modernization of the site navigation, driving jQuery deprecation to improve performance and architecting an overlay system for adoption across Etsy
Developed APIs and MCP tools for Etsy's Agentic Commerce integrations with ChatGPT and Gemini, enabling Etsy capabilities across emerging AI shopping experiences
Led development of a complex multivariate order-tracking experiment, uncovering hidden user states, translating technical tradeoffs into product scope, and creating testing guidance adopted beyond the team
Led web implementation and experimentation for deferred deep linking, partnering across teams and diagnosing Web-to-App attribution issues
Drove engineering enablement through React training, mentorship, custom Claude Code skills, tech talks, and technical documentation

Delivered immersive instruction covering JavaScript, React, Ruby, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Git, and software engineering best practices while mentoring students through debugging, code reviews and architecture.
Selected as Lead Instructor for Flatiron School's software engineering course at Yale University, leading curriculum delivery, mentoring students, and coordinating instructional staff for the Summer 2021 cohort
Created supplemental labs and pairing exercises for students
Wrote detailed and individualized code reviews to students on labs and projects
Developed and led student project sprints
Managed cohort's instructional team

Developed, tested, debugged, and maintained enterprise software for fire safety related building systems using C++ in Linux environments.
Tech stack included using C++, GDB, git, and Docker

Contractor through Eileen Claman Inc
Developed and delivered instruction for Capital One's internal immersive software engineering program in order to prepare 30 employees for their software engineering roles at Capital One using data structures, JavaScript, React, Redux, Express.js, node.js, Postgres, Sequelize, noSQL, Mongoose
Provided code reviews and support to students on projects, labs, and exercises
Designed and built an internal application using React, Redux, Postgres, Sequelize, and JavaScript

Provided security services and performed administrative duties in order to increase on campus safety
Leveraged fluency in Spanish and understanding of Latin American culture to strengthen police-community relations with the area's Hispanic population
Developed preliminary reports involving student or visitor violations
Led and supervised squad of officers during special event shifts