Tom Fanella

Engineering Manager

• Managed a scrum agile team of 5 engineers responsible for the delivery of 11 product and engineering features.
• Collaborated with product, design, and engineering to identify, refine the scope, and prioritize new initiatives.
• Improved team effectiveness by increasing team velocity by 52% and average individual velocity by 42%.
• Acted as a hiring manager for 2 roles and interviewed 50+ software engineering candidates over 3 years.
• Featured in Built-In - “How NYC Engineering Managers Foster Healthy Work-Life Balance for Their Teams”

Senior Software Engineer

• Technical lead for 3 engineers building 10 product and engineering initiatives per year.
• Lead a major website versioning system modernization which increased website redesign throughput.
• Built a payment-over-time concept for setup fees that quickly launched and increased fee attachment by 37%.
• Won a “principal award” for owning a major upgrade to our website alerts which improved customer retention.
• Leveraged knowledge in Django, ORM, PostgreSQL, React, Next.js, Redux, Pytest, Jest, Git, CI/CD, Stripe.

Software Engineer II

• Built a multi-channel restaurant checkout application using Next.js that has processed more than 1M orders grossing over $50M across all restaurants.
• Integrated digital wallets into two checkout applications which yielded an adoption rate of over 60%.
• Demoed product features at 30 “demo day” events.

Full-Stack Software Engineer

• Contributed to an increase of 30k subscriptions by managing resources for a 6 member agile development team.
• Increased user retention by 8% through creating the Deduction Finder which uses machine learning combined with industry
• knowledge to help users automatically classify their expenses as business or personal.
• Improved full-stack stability by 10% through debugging issues, optimizing performance and monitoring analytics.
• Optimized 15+ complex external API integrations such as Plaid, Uber, Square, Freshbooks, and Capital One.
• Leveraged knowledge in Java, React, React-Native, Redux, MySQL, Node.js, Swift, Git, OAuth/SAML API integrations, bug reviews, statistical analysis, creation of developer APIs, and UX design.

Software Engineering Instructor / Product Manager

• Collaborated with a team to teach software engineering to over 150 students from 20+ universities.
• Managed 5 teams of students to develop and deliver code to 4 different clients.
• Mentored 40 students in the fundamentals of web development with an emphasis on Node.js and React JS.

Software Engineer Intern

• Increased the accessibility of storage compatibility data by 75% through the creation of a mobile application.
• Worked in an agile team to implement new features and conducted extensive bug testing for 2 major releases.
• Leveraged knowledge in C#, Xamarin.Forms, Javascript, web development debugging, and Git.

Co-Founder

• Generated over $7,000 in profit by creating an online marketplace for college class notes.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

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