Melanie Cantwell
Software Engineer @ UrgentIQ
- Role
- Software Engineer at Urgentiq
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Melanie Cantwell
I\'m Melanie, a technically-minded & creative people-person. I am also a musician, lover…
Experience
Software Engineer
Sep 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US
Translate product vision/engineering improvements into full-stack user stories and testing instructions, refine engineering tasks, and optimize workflows to accelerate delivery of reliable, high-performing features.• Led full-stack redesign of the intake system—scoped backend endpoint and frontend architecture to reduce network calls and streamline data flow via a single global state store (Zustand). Delivered a simpler, more maintainable flow that cut initial render time from ms to 500 ms, improving performance and scalability, while reducing frontend complexity.• Advocate best practices for scalable & performant frontend architecture, including global state management patterns, reusable UI components and theme-based styling.• Pair program, review team PRs, and document technical decisions to ensure clarity and knowledge sharing.• Refactor legacy components through the strategic integration of Zustand, utility files, reusable UI components, and scalable styling solutions to enhance maintainability and performance.• Scope and prioritize full-stack solutions for major application features, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with the overall product roadmap.• Manage release cycles—including smoke testing, conflict resolution, and bug fixes—ensuring stable production deployments.• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve bugs to improve application stability and API reliability.
Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, BS
2011 — 2015
Duke University
Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business, Coursera Specialization
2018 — 2018
Flatiron School
Full Stack Software Engineering
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