EnergySage, Community Solar Pod (CSM)

Software Engineer II

As part of EnergySage, I had the chance to work in a startup environment with experienced engineers who helped accelerate my development and understanding of writing production software that scales to the needs of the business.

Key Learnings

Tackling Large Features End-to-End

Having gathered more experience both in my career and on the community solar team, I began getting trusted with (and successfully delivering) larger and larger projects, at one point being the primary backend developer for the pod.

Collaborating Across Teams

I was able to take on multiple projects that had company-wide implications, which required constant cross-team communication to ensure all requirements were being upheld by all parties. Notably, I collaborated across teams to devise and implement a new user authentication flow for CSM that leveraged AWS Cognito to enable SSO across the EnergySage portfolio of sites.

EnergySage, Provider and Community Solar Pod (CSM)

Software Engineer I

Starting my career at EnergySage, I had the chance to immediately work on impactful projects that directly affected the solar installers on the platform. Starting in 2021, I joined the CSM team's greenfield project shortly after it began, with modern tooling that allowed me to continue learning practical software development without as many concerns of working around legacy code.

Key Learnings

Developing Production-Ready Code

This was my first role as an individual contributor to a codebase, and I learned an incredible amount about working with my tools, understanding requirements from product stakeholders, and leveraging the knowledge of my more experienced coworkers to reach solutions.

Learning How To Learn

Developing software in a company environment is far different from academic programming, so identifying the blindspots from schooling (i.e, working with experienced programmers, tradeoffs between time and effort, getting stakeholder approval, and many more) was critical to teach me what I needed to learn.