**Herman Dhillon**
Sacramento, CA, USA
h.dhillonde@gmail.com
github.com/HermanDhillon
linkedin.com/in/h-dhillon

**Full-stack Software Engineer** with 3 years of experience delivering strategic software solutions that optimize operations, enhance productivity, and drive competitive advantage.

### Work Experience

**Software Engineer**
*Second Sight* | New York, USA | June 2022 – Present
- Increased customer conversion rates by at least 11% by collaborating with teams of 5-15 developers to build full-stack apps using TypeScript, Next.js, Node, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
- Designed and implemented a JavaScript API enabling thousands of users to view real-time progress of active treasure hunts, increasing engagement by 54%.
- Led migration from React to Next.js for server-side rendering (SSR), improving SEO scores and reducing load times by 38%.
- Modernized web apps by replacing custom JavaScript with Next.js components integrated with APIs, simplifying and extending code.

**Software Engineer**
*Sartorial Group* | New York, USA | 2021 – 2022
- Developed and trained a machine learning model (Python, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn) to classify clothing styles with 96% accuracy.
- Created an internal Python tool to efficiently label 100,000+ data points for ML model training.
- Implemented an ETL image processing pipeline to upload raw user images to S3 storage, improving ML models.

**Web Developer**
*Dhillon Development* | Sacramento, USA | 2018 – 2021
- Helped small businesses establish an online presence, increasing sales by up to 62%.
- Boosted business traffic by nearly 90% by creating custom websites with improved UI/UX.

### Education & Certifications
- **B.S. Aerospace Science & Engineering**, University of California, Davis | 2009 – 2013
- **B.S. Mechanical Engineering**, University of California, Davis | 2009 – 2013

### Technologies & Languages
- **Languages**: JavaScript, Python, TypeScript
- **Technologies**: Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Postman, Docker, Git
- **Other**: Express, React, Next.js, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, TensorFlow, REST APIs

### Projects
**IllusTray** (github.com/HermanDhillon/IllusTray)
A platform for artists to create and contribute to crowdsourced art prompts. Built with JavaScript, React, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, and Docker using modern API design principles.

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