Alisha Hwee
Software Engineer at Target
3.7
Years of Experience
Education
hackbright academy, cs50, university of minnesota, mounds view senior high school
Companies
target, target, manyc, shopify partners, hennepin healthcare, essentia health, st. lukes duluth mn
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Experience
2022 - Present
target
Software Engineer
Team: Inventory Insights Acquisition • Engineer specializing in automation-driven micro-services to bolster cutting-edge inventory solutions. • Utilize machine-learning data to facilitate systemic inventory adjustments to improve availability and accuracy. Provided engineering guidance during the first phase of development and onwards. Projected to increase annual sales by $280 million. • Work with auditing efforts to gather annual inventory data on Target stores and warehouses. Currently implementing a modernization roadmap to improve our inventory picture by 30%. • Provide external APIs to 3rd party vendors that sell product through Target via scan-based trading. This partnership increases revenue by offloading inventory operating costs and improves guest experience due to better in-stocks. • Created a continuous-integration/deployment model that minimized environment-related bugs and increased confidence in publishing releases. • Developed an internal Kafka tool that allows topic consumption with the most notable features of human-readable timestamps and MongoDB-like filters. Was able to accurately filter out ~10 messages out of ~10,000 in under a few seconds. • Mentored junior engineers and students through early tech-talent initiatives in Target and acted as a code reviewer during onboarding assignments. • Racial Equity Group: educate leadership on Asian American history, welfare, and the impact of systemic racism as well as promote actions that improve the racial equity for said group.
2021 - 2022
target
Technology Leadership Program
A software engineer though Target's Technology Leadership Program, focused on best in class leadership and technology skills through a rotational program. First rotation team: Orchestration & Automation (DBaaS). • Full-stack engineering work. • Increased efficiency amongst database administrators in maintaining database instances by providing a health-check tool that replaces command-line SSH for simple health inquiries. • Promoted high-availability by migrating micro-service architecture to one that supports database provisioning across multiple data centers. • Custom Docker images using Go and Bash scripting. Second rotation: Janus (machine learning and computer vision). • Full-stack engineering work. • Reactive streams that consume Kafka messages containing image data. • Digested out-of-stock detections via machine-learning and computer-vision in order to promote restocking of empty shelves. Helped expand the operation to 12 stores by activating 200 cameras in our pipeline. • Bootstrapped a modern web application for engineers and partners to manually audit out-of-stock image results for quality assurance. • Capture camera/image metrics to monitor system integrity.
2020 - 2021
manyc
Web Developer
• Utilized IDX Broker API to customize default data and field formatting per client request • Integrated precise CSS cloning from given wireframe models • Provided project scope and consultation to marketing and creative directors where needed • Website development using PHP and the Wordpress API; customize existing themes to match Figma wireframes • Used the Shopify platform to develop e-commerce websites, customized webpages, and unique digital solutions
2020 - 2021
shopify partners
Web Developer
• Developed a private backend server to call the Shopify API with authenticated GraphQL requests to customize the storefront • Used photo editing tools to personalize banners and pop-ups to be more appealing to potential customers • Embedded and customized Shopify apps with HTML/CSS/JS to create ads and unique collection promotions to draw attention • Added custom Javascript to create specialized and responsive headers on certain items • Installed Liquid code to redirect customers to the respective tracking page for their products • Designed and developed a new responsive landing page and website following popular marketing strategies (hero, social proof, features section, CTA, navigation header/footer) • Created better SEO search results by providing context that matters (brand, item, short description) • Discuss solutions and provide expertise to clients who struggle with design, marketability, and website architecture • Provide helpful and detailed tutorials for clients to better understand the Shopify CMS and apps
2019 - 2020
hennepin healthcare
Telemetry Technician
• Via Philip’s Patient Monitoring System, monitored heart rhythms, oxygen levels, and blood pressure for any abnormal data in accordance to patient health history (previous cardiac events, pacemaker / implantable cardioverter defibrillator, current medications). • Interpret data and suggest diagnoses into Epic for providing team review; communicates emergent events via Vocera for immediate follow-up. • Required deep understanding of heart anatomy and the electrical system, relevant diseases, ischemia or structural defects, and medications such as beta-blockers.
2019 - 2019
essentia health
Monitoring Technician
• Using Nihon Kohden, monitored heart rhythms and suggested rhythm diagnoses that could pertain to potential life-threatening conditions for all telemetry patients in the hospital and to chart any changes into Epic so that nurses/doctors were notified of any new data in order to treat patients accordingly. • Troubleshooted and manually set-up heart monitors for patients in the post-coronary care unit to free-up nurses on our floor so they can focus on other aspects of patient care. • Discussed past 24-hour ectopy and other data (heart rhythm, rate, trend-line, conversions) that helped doctors understand their patient's condition to determine best course of treatment.
2016 - 2019
st. lukes duluth mn
Patient Reception Representative / Facility Assistant
• Increased patient-triage efficiency by using Meditech software to help emergency healthcare-seeking individuals pre-register while maintaining HIPAA confidentiality and to prevent any file compromises. • Reduced wait-time to under 10 minutes for critically-ill patients by recognizing stroke symptoms, chest pain, shortness of breath, or any other emergent symptoms and to relay said information to the ER team to provide immediate care. • Created and maintained a safe environment and applied knowledge of management of aggressive behavior (MOAB) when necessary to protect patients and visitors and to notify security when further escalation occurs. • Free-up nursing staff by communicating with various health departments to arrive in a timely manner to escort visitors or discharge patients from their care units.
Experience
64 Skills
Application Programming Interfaces (API)
architecture
auditing
Automation
Backend
Bash
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
CI/CD
Computer Vision
Confluence
Design
Docker
E-commerce
es6
Figma
Flask
Frontend
GitHub
Gradle
Grafana
GraphQL
Heroku
Integration
Java
Javascript
Jira
JSON
Kafka
Kibana
Kotlin
Leadership
Machine Learning (ML)
marketing
Material-UI
Microservices
Mobile
MongoDB
NodeJS
oauth
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)
PHP
PostgreSQL
Problem solving
quality assurance (QA)
Redis
Redux
Research Scientist
Sales
Scrum
Shopify
Software Engineer
Spring
sqlalchemy
test
testing
Trading
Typescript
ui
User Acquisition
Vision
Web
Webpack
website development
WordPress
Education
2020 - 2020
hackbright academy
Computer Software Engineering
2020 - 2020
cs50
Certificate
Computer Science
2014 - 2018
university of minnesota
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc
Kinesiology and Exercise Science
2010 - 2014
mounds view senior high school
High School
