Mary Dickson Diaz

Full-stack senior software developer specialized in Ruby on Rails and Go, and experienced in web-based apps, REST APIs, legacy monolith and microservice architecture, feature development, databases, QA and testing, and leading Agile teams.

Technical Skills

Ruby / Ruby on Rails
Go
JavaScript and JS Frameworks including React, Backbone, JQuery, Angular
HTML / CSS
SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Web deployment tools: Heroku / AWS
REST APIs

Experience

Navigating Cancer, Senior Software Engineer | May 2018 - present

Full-stack development and team lead for patient management platform used by oncology clinics, primarily in Ruby on Rails monolith app with Rails engines and Backbone/React front end components

Promoted to senior engineer/care management team lead after one year
Work with product lead and team of engineers to design and deliver new care management features including asynchronous reporting, new triage incident types, banner alert system
Prod support and client fulfillment initiatives to enable internal support team to better serve clients without needing engineering intervention
Responsible for bi-weekly release train coordination, including identifying and communicating impact of code changes to customers and internal stakeholders.
Prod support and client fulfillment initiatives to enable internal support team to better serve clients without needing engineering intervention

Experticity, Software Engineer | March 2016 - March 2018

Full-stack development for marketer platform app used by hundreds of top consumer brands

Rebuilt an API for marketer platform from Java -> Go
Led Ruby on Rails -> Go transition for marketer platform web app
Added feature for marketers to download content as a CSV (via email) through an Azkaban job
Developed a script to create a full-featured demo brand for Experticity sales executives

Code Fellows, Teaching Assistant | November 2015 - February 2016

Support instructors and students to meet learning objectives in 301: Intermediate Software Development. Class covers common core of software development, including MVC, Object-Oriented Programming, functional programming, and asynchronous programming via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

University of Washington Information School, Corporate & Foundation Relations | 2013 – 2015

Communicated iSchool research and teaching initiatives to Seattle area tech companies to build private/public partnerships and secure financial and in-kind support, including a lead gift to support the iSchool's DataLab research team. Doubled revenue to iAffiliates program from previous year.

Fight for the Future, Annual Funds Manager | 2012 – 2013

Fundraising development strategy and execution for a national non-profit working to preserve freedom of expression online, including: creation of annual strategic plan, list-based online appeals, campaign funding, crowd-funding, corporate partnerships, and foundation and major gift strategy.

Teach For America & Citizen Schools, Corporate & Foundation Relations | Houston, TX: 2005 – 2012

Held a variety of roles with increasing responsibility from 2005-2012 leading up to strategy and execution for annual corporate and foundation funding goal of up to $5 million. Increased corporate giving at Teach For America by 81% and special event revenue by 86% in one year. Managed a portfolio of more than 100 corporate and foundation donors.

Houston Independent School District, Teacher, English Language Arts | Houston, TX: 2002 – 2005

Taught first under the auspices of national service corps of outstanding recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools, then continued teaching in original assignment for a third year.

Education

Code Fellows, Seattle, WA

Code 501: React & Redux
Ruby on Rails Advanced Software Development – Certificate awarded October 2015
Foundations II: Ruby
Foundations II: Python
Foundations I: HTML/CSS/JavaScript/JQuery

Kal Academy

Data Structures & Algorithms

University of Maryland

College Park, MD – Bachelor of Arts cum laude