Application kit · Engineering Leadership

Caressa Arias — Technical & Engineering Lead

For teams looking for a hands-on technical lead who can establish practical engineering systems while shipping the work alongside the team.

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Senior Engineer, Mobile & Frontend Lead · Olympiah · 2025

Shared architecture across web and mobile at an early-stage nonprofit

Brought an agency-built React and React Native codebase in-house and set its architecture, delivery, and engineering practices as the technical lead.

Technical leadership
Shared web/mobile architecture
CI/CD automation
Test-driven development
Mentorship

Work

Contract Software Engineer · Macnew Consulting · 2026

Multi-tenant compliance governance platform

Sole engineer from PRD to production on a multi-tenant governance SaaS platform for a critical-infrastructure compliance domain.

End-to-end ownership
Data modeling
Application security
Authorization architecture
Workflow state machines
CI/CD & cloud

Work

Software Engineer (Secret Clearance) · Chesapeake Technology International · 2014–2018

Plugin-based GIS platform for field sensor integration

Java plugins for a plugin-based GIS platform that integrates new military hardware and sensors per contract.

Plugin architecture
Hardware & sensor integration
Real-time data
Mentorship
Secure environments

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