Nikole McLeish
EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine - 2022
Master of Human Computer Interaction and Design
Georgia Institute of Technology - 2019
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Concentrations: Intelligence and Media
Minor in Industrial Design
WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer | Twitter
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
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Working on the Scaled Enforcement Tools Team
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Designed and executed the migration of a legacy tool to advance my organization’s consolidation initiative
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Improved the architecture of a chrome web extension and implemented 3 new features to enhance bug reporting
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Provided support for and resolved 10+ bugs and issues to ensure our services were running in a healthy state
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Implemented, updated, and tested 8+ APIs across several internal tools and services
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Delivered 2 technical design documents and actively contributed additional documentation for 3+ tools
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Ensured all our applications authenticate through S2S to enable privacy and data protection between services
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Utilized TypeScript, JavaScript, ReactJS, Scala, Thrift, and Git
Software Development Engineer | Amazon
Sept 2019 - Sept 2020
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Developed and tested 4 safety and management service applications used to support sort technology
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Designed and implemented safety mechanisms to provide authentication and authorization for an android app
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Improved collection of performance metrics to auto-generate alarms for service monitors
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Deep dive into operational problems to develop root cause analysis and provide solutions to operational risks
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Implemented cooldowns mechanisms to prevent throttling of high-impact services
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Designed and implemented an auditing workflow that supports bulk actions and integration with S3 buckets
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Technologies used: Java, Ruby, Typescript, ReactJS, AWS
Researcher | Georgia Tech Security, Privacy, Usability, and Design Lab
Aug 2018 - May 2019
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Designed AI-assistants that use machine learning to make authentication decisions for physical spaces
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Developed an Android application that handles real-time face recognition using Microsoft Face
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Utilized Google Firebase for real-time database access and authentication
Research Intern | IBM
May 2018 - Aug 2018
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Cleansed and provided modeling and analyses of structured and unstructured data for anomaly detection
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Designed and implemented animated data visualizations with Matplotlib and NetworkX
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Conducted research on acoustic data using Neural Networks with TensorFlow and Neo4j
Software Developer Intern | IBM
May 2017 - Aug 2017
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Developed a travel-themed chatbot that collects location and date to provide a weather prediction
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Developed a poem-generating web application using Watson Tone Analyzer and Natural Language Understanding
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Used Spark Machine Learning to predict purchases from unfiltered clickstream data with up to 70% accuracy
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Created two PixieApps that allow easier data query from Postgres and Cloudant databases