Naomi-Grace Panlaqui

Software engineer, eight years in. I build the whole thing: the front end people touch, the services behind it, and the platform it runs on.

Skills

Front end

Where I started, and still where I care most about the details: accessible, fast, and readable by the next person.

TypeScriptReactNext.jsRemix / React RouterReact Native (Expo)Tailwind CSSRadix UIStorybookCypressReact Testing Library

Back end

Small, well-tested services with clear contracts. I really like schemas.

PythonGoNode.jsFastAPIDjangoExpressGraphQLREST APIsKafkaAWS SQS

Platform

Most recently: writing custom Kubernetes operators to run AI/ML models, and the CLI tooling around them.

Kubernetes (custom operators & CRDs)DockerAWSAzurenginxFly.ioGitHub ActionsGitLab CI

Specialties

The things teams keep asking me to do again.

Schema-driven form generationAccessibility (Section 508, DHS Trusted Tester TTv5)Internationalization & localizationComponent librariesLeading small teams

Projects

Next.jsReact NativeExpoAWSnginx

DC Music Live

Cofounder & Software Engineer · 2021 – present

The most comprehensive live music listing for Washington, DC. It began as a pandemic passion project and is now something I build, deploy, and keep running.

Built and maintain the Next.js site; own the AWS deployments, nginx, and mobile releases.
Prototyped the 1.0 app in React Native and architected the Expo app for the 2.0 redesign.
Wrote the first data cleaners that made messy event listings trustworthy.

dcmusic.live

Next.jsReacti18nSonarQube

Seasonal Jobs

Software Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton · 2019 – 2021

The Department of Labor's search tool for seasonal work. I worked on it twice, and the second time I rebuilt it in under three months.

Solo-built the internationalized Next.js rewrite for the November 2021 re-release.
Google Lighthouse performance went from ~30% to ~70% on every page; bounce rate fell from ~60% to ~7%.
Cut the React codebase from ~15K to ~5K lines and SonarQube code smells from 250+ to under 5.

seasonaljobs.dol.gov

ReactSchema-driven formsServer-side validation

FLAG

Front End Developer, Booz Allen Hamilton · 2018 – 2020

The Foreign Labor Application Gateway: where employers file H-2A, H-2B, and LCA visa applications. Long, conditional, high-stakes forms.

Architected a schema-based form generator so new applications could be built from a definition instead of by hand, making forms faster for applicants and easier to debug for developers.
Built the chained conditional-logic core of the server-side validation package.
Led a team of junior developers to ship two H-2B forms against a tight go-live date.

flag.dol.gov

Other work

Work I can describe but not link to: internal platforms and government systems behind a login.

AI/ML model deployment platform

2024 – 2026

Led the design of a control plane that models the lifecycle of an AI/ML model as custom Kubernetes resources: install registers metadata, warm pulls and caches weights, deploy stands up a service. The same model can then be deployed under many configurations without re-pulling weights. Also led a feature that lets data scientists iterate on prompts and configurations against a deployed model without redeploying it, and rebuilt the Python CLI that packages analytics, with validation that catches malformed packages before they ship.

PythonGoKubernetes operatorsFastAPI

Job Corps interest form & applicant dashboard

2022 – 2023

Led a team of six to release a modernized interest form, then a team of five to deliver an applicant dashboard on a fixed deadline. Next.js front end with Cypress tests, a Storybook + Tailwind component library, several Node.js services, and Drupal.

Next.jsStorybookTailwind CSSNode.jsCypress

Multilingual form generators

2018 – 2023

A theme across three projects: a schema-based generator for visa applications, then a multilingual single-form generator for federal complaint intake, then a multi-page version of it. Each one meant a new form was a definition file, not a rewrite.

ReactSchema-driven formsi18n

Benefits.gov accessibility portal & services

2020 – 2021

An accessibility portal with a DHS Trusted Tester (TTv5) reporting tool that improved Section 508 reporting for Benefits.gov and other program testers, plus three Node.js microservices: an Azure chatbot back end, an OIDC/Login.gov back end, and a GraphQL/Cosmos DB storage back end.

Node.jsGraphQLAzureLogin.govSection 508

Contact

Looking for someone who can own a feature from the form to the cluster? Say hello.

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