Mikaela Currier

Software Engineer

Cyclist

Life Enthusiast

Background

I am a software engineer in Wayfair's financial engineering department and a research fellow at the Adaptive and Secure Computing Systems (ASCS) Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. I focus my research on system optimization, data visualization, software architecture, microservices, machine learning, and UX. I am also an avid cyclist and mountain climber.

Featured Projects

August 2020

Gauge

Gauge is a tool for analysis and visualization of supercomputer workloads. We utilize HDBSCAN to cluster similiar jobs for ease of analysis and our tool contains many coloring and searching parameters for I/O experts to peer into these supercomputing applications.
I collaborated with ASCS lab based out of Texas A&M to create this open-source project.

Stack: React (with hooks), Context API, D3, MaterialUI, Facebook's HiPlot API

April 2019

Stand-Em-Ups

This is my collaborative senior project at Lambda School. I worked with 3 other students over 5 weeks to create this application. "Stand-em-Ups" is an asynchronous solution to too-long, too-far, too-boring stand-up meetings.
While I had a hand in both the front-end and back-end, I contributed heavily to the React front-end and the UI/UX.

Stack: React, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, MaterialUI, Slack API, Firebase

Skills




Education

August 2018 - August 2019

Lambda School

Full Stack Immersive Web Development

I attended Lambda School's Full Stack Web Development program that runs for 9 months. Halfway through, I had the oppurtunity to reinforce my skills as a teaching assistant which prolonged my in-school period by 3 months.

August 2014 - August 2018

Colorado State University

Bachelor's of Psychology

I spent 4 years attending Colorado State University in their Psychology program and graduated in August 2018. More than anything else, I have greatly honed writing, speaking, research, and personal skills from this degree.

Work Experience

October 2021 - Current

Fermata Energy

Software Engineer

I currently work as the lead frontend software engineer for Fermata Energy building scalable, enterprise platforms. The tech stack is primarily TypeScript React.

May 2020 - January 2023

ASCS Laboratory

Research Fellow

As a research fellow, I collaborated on the Gauge tool, led front-end development, set up the infrastructure for the project, and taught peers professional-level React standards. I also wrote sections for and revised the PDSW paper on Gauge.

May 2021 - October 2021

Broadcom

Software Engineer II

At Broadcom, I built tools and workflows for our department's sales team to onboard new customers. The tech stack was TypeScript React and GoLang.

November 2019 - May 2021

Wayfair

Software Engineer

As a software engineer in Wayfair's finance engineering department, I worked closely with designers, the business team, and other software engineers to deliver business-relevant products for both supplier and internal employees. While I often worked on legacy code, I also built multiple projects from concept to release. Primary stack includes PHP, React, and GraphQL, and SQL.

May 2019 - June 2019

Arvata

Front-End Software Engineering Intern

Front-end developer on a team with 4 other developers, fixing bugs and adding features to legacy code. My stack is primarily Angular/TypeScript.

September 2020 - Current

Stack Education

TA -> Lead Instructor

Guiding students through a full-stack web development course, focusing on HTML, CSS, Node, and React. This part-time position does an exeptional job of grounding me in my work, reminding me how far I've come, and is a way for me to guide and mentor students into becoming great software engineers. In February of 2021, I was promoted from teaching assistant to lead instructor where I now give 3 hour lectures to 15-20 students.

Publications

(1) E. del Rosario, M. Currier, M. Isakov, S. Madireddy, P. Balaprakash, P. Carns, R. Ross, and M. Kinsy, “Gauge: An interactive data-driven visualization tool for HPC application I/O performance analysis,” in 2020 IEEE/ACM Fifth International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW), 2020.