Verogen began as a spin-off of a project that I had worked on at Illumina. Along with two other ex-Illumina employees, we formed the core of Verogen's software team and helped build it into the world's first dedicated forensic genomics and human identification company. Because of our work, this led to QIAGEN acquiring Verogen in January of 2023.

I was primarily responsible for rebuilding the front-end of the application from the ground up, making the transition from AngularJS (v1) to Angular (v2+). I also became the technical lead for the application on later projects, working with a UX designer and another developer to implement new features.

I joined Illumina as a very junior developer, where I was given many wonderful opportunities to grow and learn and I took full advantage. Over the course of six years, I worked my way up to Staff Software Engineer and took on full front-end development responsibilities for my team.

The state of front-end web development was very turbulent but exciting at this time, with the transition from jQuery and raw HTML/CSS to MVVM frameworks like Knockout and eventually giving rise to the SPA framework with AngularJS. I was able to adapt quickly to this ever-changing landscape, showing my ability to pick up new things quickly.

1parkplace was basically the start of my journey into software development. The company made software for real estate agents and brokers, and I was able to cut my teeth on a tech stack that taught me a lot of the basics (C#, SQL Server, jQuery/HTML/CSS).