My Personal Website (this site)
- Designed and developed a personal website to showcase my projects and experiences
Utilized:
React, Typescript, Gatsby, TailwindCSS, GraphQL, Material UI
Hi 👋 I'm Andrew Rocks
I am a Software Engineer with a passion for building and lifelong learning. I follow a builder's mindset when delivering high-quality, user-centric applications. I currently am based out of Chicago and work at Pariveda Solutions.
Education 📚
University of Notre Dame
2018 - 2022
GPA: 3.92
Honors:
Magna Cum Laude, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computing Honor Society
I earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a minor in Engineering Corporate Practice.
Relevant Coursework:
Data Structures, Design/Analysis of Algorithms, Programming Paradigms, Systems Programming, Operating Systems Principles
Advanced Coursework:
Droid Building, Computer Vision, Cryptography, Advanced Database Projects
Work Experience 🏢
Pariveda Solutions
Summer 2022 - Present
Software Engineer (Consultant 2)
- Architected the combination of multiple microservices to increase the number of flights viewable to contact center agents by over 250%, feature used by over 4,000 agents
- Led testing and deployment for a new feature, triaging and resolving 30+ bugs to ensure a smooth launch
- Increased warehouse claims processing rate by > 175% by migrating business workflow to a React web app
- Automated the validation and processing for an average of $140,600 worth of claims each week, or nearly $6.75 million annually
- Eliminated 30+ second load time of old MVC app by writing performative React code
- Created a web app that calculates suggested retail prices for 17+ competitive products based on custom business rules and 60,000 competitor prices
- Decreased price calculation time by 98% by centralizing 26 regional macro workflows into one app, resulting in 1000+ labor hours saved annually
- Improved batch retail processing, reducing price calculation duration by 91% and process memory usage by 58% by leveraging multithreading and data structures
Utilized:
React, Typescript, C#, .NET, Angular, SQL
Deloitte Consulting
Summer 2021
Technology Consulting Summer Scholar
- Interviewed product development teams on their DevSecOps processes, researched best practices, and presented recommendations for improvement to firm partners and managers, solo presentation over an hour
- Streamlined processes for 5+ development teams leading to improved agility and code delivery
- Researched market competition to firm offerings and crafted professional slide decks to convey findings
Utilized:
DevSecOps, Salesforce, PowerPoint
DICK's Sporting Goods
Summer 2020
Software Engineering Intern
- Created the API for the MVP of an appointment scheduling app that increased accessibility to previously underutilized services, leading to 100% more revenue generated
Utilized:
Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB
Skills 💪
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Python, Java, C, C++, HTML, CSS
Technologies
React, .NET, Angular, GraphQL, SQL, AWS, Next.js, Spring Boot, Flask, Gatsby, Tailwind CSS, MongoDB, Material UI
Other
API design, Object-Oriented Programming, Component-based UI design, UX design, Agile
Projects 🔨
Swipe & Swing
- Created an Tinder-Style mobile app for golfers to find other similar golfers to play with and schedule tee times
- Earned 1st place award in class for best application
- Designed and implemented an Oracle SQL database to store and manage application data
- Developed a Flask API to handle requests and manage interactions between the database and the front-end applications
- Created a web application in React to allow golf courses to manage tee times created through the mobile app
Utilized:
Flask, Python, React, React Native, Typescript, Oracle SQL
Tank Droid
- Managed a semester-long project to build a fully-functioning droid, with coordinated motion, sound, lighting, and theming that could perform routines and navigate autonomously
- Earned 1st place award in class for best droid
- Programmed using the C/Arduino language, designed and assembled 21+ custom parts with CAD software and 3D printers
Utilized:
C/Arduino, CAD
PDF Data Scraper
- Applied OCR (optical character recognition) libraries to convert 20+ page PDFs to text
- Leveraged custom regular expressions to extract useful data from legal documents into to json files
Utilized:
Python, Tesseract & Textra OCR Engines
Road Lane Detection (Computer Vision)
- Crafted a road lane detection algorithm to find and mark road lanes from vehicle dashcam footage
- Utilized canny edge detection, a Hough transform, and predictive filtering operations supported by the OpenCV package in Python
Utilized:
Python, OpenCV
