Joél Hawkins Torres

Sr Software Engineer Iii @Intuit

US

Delivered over 40 new features/fixes for public-facing, high-traffic TurboTax app. in React/TypeScript, improved test coverage beyond 85%, accessibility, maintaining high level of reliability. • Lead development & implementation of customer analytics for business users achieving metrics for 100% of possible UI interactions with minimal network overhead. • Collaborated closely with analytics team to derive meaningful metrics from business user interactions providing actionable insight & directly impacting the iterative design & implementation process. • Expanded functionality of proprietary page templating schema ’Fuego’ (JSON, Kotlin)–the underpinning of TurboTax’s document structure & layout–vastly improving developer experience & capabilities. • Engineered new features of TurboTax platform, combining Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, JavaScript, TypeScript, & others, quickly adapting ’on-the-fly’ advanced skill in Kotlin & Java with no prior exposure. • Developed robust type definitions for core JavaScript/TypeScript & React component libraries used by hundreds of developers across all Intuit products, improving stability, test coverage, & accelerating development process ultimately delivering more stable & secure products, new features in less time than before. • Mentored junior developers in advanced TypeScript & React as well as professional skills to improve collaboration with designers, managers, executives, and effectively express technical concepts to non-technical audiences. • Promoted & expanded accessibility of TurboTax Online at the developer level, improving keyboard, screen reader, readability support as an ‘Accessibility Champion’–a title awarded by Intuit’s accessibility community to those with demonstrated knowledge & commitment to accessibility. • Developed feature enabling users to instantly upload tax / financial documents & effectively unifying experience between Intuit products (e.g. CreditKarma to TurboTax).

Reed College

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics

Boise High School

Graduate, N/A