Kevin Lizarazo
Email: kevin@lizarazo.dev
Website: kevinlizarazo.com
Professional Experience:
Company: Bank of America
Title: Software Engineer II
Dates: September 2022 – Present
Responsibilities:
- Leading the migration of a legacy application to a React-based web application, managing the epic from start to finish and delegating tasks to developers
- Contributing to development and feature enhancements of a Single SPA, React-driven application which supports Enterprise Credit Risk reporting users in maintaining the bank's compliance efforts
- Writing unit tests using Jest and React Testing Library, contributing to functional test suites using QTest
- Developed a VSCode Extension to provide a React-form app, in support of an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tool
- Participate in pull request reviews and contributing to story refinements and requirement definitions
Company: Diversant (Contracted to Bank of America)
Title: Application Programmer V
Dates: March 2022 – September 2022
Responsibilities:
- Contributed to business mandated Workbench related enhancements supporting Enterprise Credit Risk reporting users, supporting simplification/automation of end to end data sourcing and processing efforts
- Developed audit tracking software to assist the bank with its SOX-compliance requirements
Company: Council on Foreign Relations
Title: Associate Web Developer
Dates: October 2020 – March 2022
Responsibilities:
- Use skills in front-end development (including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, D3, responsive email, Node) to develop websites, data visualizations, and tools for use by the editorial and research teams
- Code new features and resolve bugs for the flagship website and other products, using Agile development best practices, ensure my code passes SonarCloud tests and deploys smoothly through CI/CD via Git & CircleCI
- Develop and maintain responsive emails for sends via Sailthru
- Maintain bespoke data visualization development toolset
Company: Council on Foreign Relations
Title: Design Technologist
Dates: April 2017 – October 2020
Responsibilities:
- Developed an interactive and static graphics development toolset, leveraging Node.js, Express, and D3, for data visualization designers to produce their own high-quality, bespoke interactive graphics
- Developed CFR’s first responsive email newsletters using MJML and Sailthru, and maintain them across all departments
- Present work to various teams, departments, colleagues, and executive leadership
Company: Stony Brook University - School of Journalism
Title: Adjunct Lecturer
Dates: Summer 2015, Summer 2017
Responsibilities:
- Developed website to showcase student-journalists work on a WordPress custom installation
- Traveled with undergraduate and graduate students to Hawaii and New Mexico to instruct them as they reported on NASA’s geological field research
- Taught students how to become self-sufficient multimedia reporters capable of interviewing, producing, and editing content
Skills: Front-end development, React.js, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Material UI, Node.js, Redux.js, Express.js, jQuery, Docker, Oracle SQL Developer, Jenkins, Ansible, OpenShift, Jira, Bitbucket, Agile Development, Jest, React Testing Library, QTest, TypeScript, VSCode Extensions
Education: Stony Brook University, graduated May 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts double major in Political Science and Journalism