Tania Rascia

Software Engineer in Chicago, IL

Experience

Balto AI — St. Louis, MO

Aided in designing and implementing an improved architecture for web applications, including using S3 and CloudFront for CDN builds, improving performance, scaling, and caching capabilities.
Led the front end team in an initiative to revamp reporting dashboards for management users, resulting in faster queries, and more useful, efficient and aesthetically pleasing graphs, charts, and tables.
Started a front end guild for bi-weekly discussions of important changes and improvements that would affect all teams working on web and Electron applications.
Refactored front end applications to use modern standards, reduce boilerplate, increase clarity and speed of onboarding, and increase test coverage and confidence.
Implemented hardened security for authentication in web and Electron applications using the latest OAuth 2.0 standards.
Hackathon winner: Balto Chat, where Balto's AI technology meets chat, helping agents by adding real-time guidance, clickable suggestions, notifications, warnings, and encouragement.

Yum! Brands — Chicago, IL

Devised a strategy for migrating systems from the various Yum! brands (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC) to one unifying, modern platform for menu management.
Lead and mentored a team of five developers to develop and architect a Backend For Frontend (BFF) system to facilitate communication between a front end and multiple microservices.
Designed and engineered a TypeScript API utilizing model view controller (MVC) design patterns, also serving as POC for the first of many TypeScript services for the company.
Wrote a single sign on (SSO) authentication and authorization system utilizing AWS Cognito, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and PKCE flow.

DAIS Technology — Chicago, IL

Architected an internal, resuable Node.js/React platform for implementing secure authentication and routing used across all DAIS front end applications.
Lead and mentored a team of three developers creating interactive and intuitive user interfaces in React and Vue.
Cross-trained the automation and SDET teams to maintain and add new features to internal applications.
Established company conventions/standards and documented all internal processes.
Hackathon winner: DAIS Hub, a one-stop-shop for accessing and updating repositories, microservices, and deployments across multiple environments.

RateYourSeats.com — Chicago, IL

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises — Chicago, IL

Languages - Node.js, JavaScript (React/Redux, Vue), TypeScript, GraphQL, SQL, PHP, Python, Bash, HTML5, CSS3, JSON
Concepts - Web Application Development, Design Patterns (REST API Design, MVC), Databases (Postgres, SQL), Authentication and Security (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SSO, JWT), Linux/UNIX Administration, Webpack, Electron, Version Control (Git), AWS Infrastructure (EC2, Route 53, RDS), Testing (Unit, Component, Integration, End-to-end)

See GitHub for all open-source projects.

Roosevelt University — Chicago, IL