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Freyja Shelton

SOFTWARE ENGINEER · FORT WAYNE, IN

I take monolithic systems apart and rebuild them as something faster, cleaner, and easier to ship — without breaking what's already running.

Freyja Shelton
// 01 — EXPERIENCE

Where I've Built Things

Software Engineer

MAY 2021 — OCT 2024

Sparq · Fort Wayne, IN

  • Aligned technical architecture with customer requirements, reducing rework and accelerating time-to-value.
  • Reduced post-launch defects through unit testing and code review discipline, improving release reliability.
  • Designed and implemented scalable, modular, API-centric architectures using C#, React, and AWS, streamlining development with Git and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Software Engineer

MAY 2018 — MAY 2021

Ontario Systems · Muncie, IN

  • Migrated a legacy desktop app to a modern web stack, improving accessibility and reducing page load time by 90%.
  • Increased developer productivity by automating environment setup with Docker, cutting setup time by over 93% — from 8 hours to 30 minutes.
  • Built JavaScript applications in Agile sprints, balancing velocity with code quality and maintainability standards.
// 02 — PROJECTS

Things I've Tinkered With

Pathfinder Character Builder

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A browser-based character creator for Pathfinder 1st Edition. It walks through races, classes, feats, and stats so you can build a character without wrangling spreadsheets and rulebooks by hand.

// 03 — EDUCATION

Education

Taylor University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

GRADUATED JAN 2018
// 04 — SKILLS

My Toolkit

Backend

C# .NET Node.js Python Java Go C / C++ SQL RDS Entity Framework RESTful API CRON

Frontend

HTML CSS TypeScript React Angular Bootstrap

DevOps

AWS Azure EC2 Lambda Docker CI/CD Git Infrastructure

Soft Skills

Agile Scrum Sprint Planning Backlog Grooming Retrospectives Stakeholder Communication Cross-functional Collaboration Mentoring Code Review