Luke Hays

Experience

• Consulted on frontend development in React for a third-party risk management tool used by a Fortune 500 financial client, resulting in two contract extensions and generating over $2M in additional revenue.
• Implemented a major component library upgrade, addressing deprecated APIs and broken test cases in over 400 files.
• Coordinated two software developer teams to achieve 80% unit test coverage for a React application using Jest on a shared codebase.
• Led a team of three developers in launching the initial phase of a mental health practitioners' finder and registry tool using Next.js.

• Engineered an inventory management system that integrated desktop and web platforms using C# and SQL Server.
• Mitigated a denial of service attack on a public-facing web application by implementing rate limiting on search functions and refactoring sequential IDs in routing.
• Automated a monthly data entry process by developing scripts for parsing CSV files and importing data into SQL tables, resolving over 100,000 erroneous records.

• Addressed and resolved bug reports for a Laboratory Information Management System using C# and ActiveReports.
• Revamped laboratory user acceptance testing (UAT) process, reducing average bug reports by 50% during testing.

• Facilitated user acceptance testing for a software rollout, managing a team of twenty QA testers.
• Delivered software training and provided onsite support across seven regional offices, impacting over 70 employees.

Skills

• Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, Python
• Technologies: React, Node.js, Jest, Playwright, SASS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Tools: Docker, Amazon Web Services, Git

Education