Hi I'm Ruth :)
Senior Fullstack Engineer (7+ YOE) specializing in high performance React, TypeScript, C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, GraphQL, Node.js, and Azure / AWS.
Strong background in system modernization, microfrontend and microservice transformation, API contract design, data visualization, data intensive workflows, and complex UI architecture.
Experienced in translating ambiguous product requirements into scalable architecture across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
Experience
Premier Inc.
- Built a greenfield React + TypeScript frontend and contributing to the .NET Core + C# CQRS backend for Premier’s next-generation supply-chain platform.
- Modernized a decade-old Angular/.NET monolith into React microfrontends with safe, feature-flag-driven rollouts.
- Defined GraphQL and API contracts that reduced redundancy and improved data accuracy across the app.
- Optimized ASP.NET Core and EF Core queries to reduce latency and strengthen backend reliability.
- Automated a .NET bootstrap tool that cut Windows VM environment setup from 25 minutes to 3.
- Identified critical domain issues that improved system stability ahead of a $2.6B acquisition.
Medidata Solutions
- Developed metric-driven D3.js and HighCharts visualizations for an AI-powered clinical trial platform, contributing to a 30% increase in customer adoption.
- Refactored core UI architecture to reduce cyclomatic complexity and improve maintainability.
- Standardized design patterns using Atomic Design to increase consistency and speed up feature delivery.
- Improved frontend performance by redesigning API contracts and optimizing client data workflows.
- Enhanced delivery predictability by introducing engineering refinement and migrating the component library to Artifactory.
Joy (Contract)
- Stabilized a fast-scaling microservice architecture during the rollout of a new dropshipping feature.
- Introduced global error-handling middleware in Node to restore observability after a 60% drop in exception signal.
- Used telemetry to isolate AWS media-upload failures, enabling rapid recovery and safe database rollbacks.
Peacekeepers
- Led a small engineering team to deliver a TDD-driven MVP improving access to legal-aid resources.
- Architected the platform’s frontend and backend under tight deadlines using a streamlined CI workflow.
Codesmith
- Modernized the core learning platform with Docker to support fully remote workflows during the pandemic.
- Automated YAML-to-React component generation to help non-engineers publish content rapidly.
- Led public workshops teaching JavaScript, debugging, testing, and deployment to engineering cohorts.
Reactime (Open Source)
- Co-founded Reactime, a real-time React state-visualization devtool nominated for a React Open Source Award.
- Built the D3.js node-graph visualizer integrated into Chrome DevTools for live state inspection and time-travel debugging.
Technical Skills
Frontend
Backend
Architecture
DevOps & Testing
Featured Projects
Thyroid Reproductive Hormone Health Explorer
Uses evidence-based research to visualize hypothyroid effects on women's health
A node-link visualization showing the cascade from thyroid dysfunction to reproductive impacts with interactive depth at each node.
✨ To be featured on Reproductive Fertility Doctor's Podcast
Reactime
Open Source React DevTool
Chrome DevTools extension for visualizing React state changes in real-time. Nominated for React Open Source Award (2020).
✨ Nominated for React Open Source Award 2020
I'm deeply passionate about preventative health, system architecture, and pixel perfect UI. I'm open to remote-only opportunities.