Mary Rose Boulos

Full-Stack Software Engineer · Fairfax, VA · MaryRoseBoulos@gmail.com

Self-motivated Software Engineer with diverse professional experience. Successfully pivoted into web development in 2022 after +7 years of specialized database and web scraping expertise. Seeking a full stack engineering role that leverages my web development skills and data expertise to contribute innovative solutions that help organizations thrive.

Experience

Full-Stack Software Engineer (Contract)

iDirect Government, Herndon, VA

Dec 2022 - Dec 2023

Designed/developed solutions for web-based application providing access to satellite modems for configuration and real-time monitoring purposes using Vue, Vuetify, Javascript, Node, Go and GraphQL.

1 of 3 selected developers to refactor code upgrading Vue 2 to 3 and VueX to Pinia.
Enhanced UI accessibility by 35% with features like mobile layout and dark mode.
Maintained and developed bug fixes for back-end using JS, Go, GQL and bash.
Delivered and peer reviewed code in agile using Git, Jira, Jenkins, and Bitbucket
Improved quality and integrity of code by 10% with unit tests using Vitest/Jest.
Met latest release launch deadline, by evaluating/verifying 20+ fixes and features.

Dec 2022 - Dec 2023

Full-Stack Software Engineer (Freelance)

100Devs, (Remote)

Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

Designed and developed full-stack web applications using MERN/MEVN stack and MVC framework with RESTful API services. Biggest projects:

A multilingual fully responsive website for an ophthalmology clinic, using features like Google Maps and WhatsApp API integration and providing SEO & hosting, boosting business exposure by 35%.
A fully responsive landing page for a web development freelancing business, using Vite, React, and Tailwind, with accessibility features.

Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

Web Scraping Specialist/Lead

Scholarchip, New York (Remote)

Jan 2014 - Jun 2021

Lead a team of 3 developers scrape and maintain a dynamic database from different sources using various web scraping tools and utilities to provide a quick criminal background check tool for school visitors to ensure the safety of children.

Technical ownership of project data warehouse and web scraping toolchain.
Lead team, uplifting their skillset and increasing productivity 30%.
Migrated/maintained all projects, licenses, tools, and utilities to AWS cloud.
Boosted scraping performance 1.5x by migrating crawlers to Content Grabber.
Shortened scraping time 50% by optimizing extraction techniques.
Mastered PL/SQL utilized for data handling and management on Oracle.
Researched/evaluated scraping tools, proxy, and de-captcha services.
Proficiently designed/maintained 52 crawlers using web scraping tools and scripts including VWR, Content Grabber, XPath, Regex, and VB.net.

Jan 2014 - Jun 2021

Database Management

U.S Naval Medical Research Unit - 3, Cairo, Egypt

Sep 2007 - May 2009

Designed and developed a relational database schema that met and exceeded the requirements and satisfaction of 3 different departments, with a user-friendly interface, that included automated features providing a practical and timesaving data entry tool on MS access, for prospective migration to SQL server.

Sep 2007 - May 2009