Experience
Software Developer at SnapOn Credit
May 2025 — Present- • Modernized legacy PICK Basic collection system for 300+ users with Python/HTML/CSS interfaces
- • Built SMS delivery system replacing carrier email-to-text, handling 1,000–2,000 messages/month
- • Migrated legacy platform to modern terminal emulator and API-driven architecture
Research Assistant at Loyola University Chicago
Oct 2023 — Present- • Built full-stack facial recognition app with React, Flask, and Vercel; implemented CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
- • Improved system accuracy by 50% through Chakra UI redesign and facial embedding threshold optimization
- • Led project management through stand-ups, Kanban tracking, and stakeholder collaboration
Senior Software Engineer at Smyl Fitness
Jan 2023 — Sep 2024- • Led 2 development teams to ship functional health screening software in 3 months
- • Integrated MoveNet pose estimation, improving screening precision by 50%
Projects
Face Recognition
Privacy-first attendance tracker using browser-based facial recognition to count repeat visitors without storing personal data.
Game Hub
Game discovery app for browsing and filtering video games from a comprehensive games database.
Terminal Games
Interactive ASCII games playable directly in the terminal using Python's curses library.
Publications
Characterizing Emergency Department Visits for Product-Related Head Injuries in the United States 2014 to 2024
N. Soulakis, A. Shaffer, C. Hensing, D. Gonzalez-Velez
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open (JACEP Open), 2025
Epidemiology of emergency department visits for burn injuries in the United States, 2014–2023
N. Soulakis, C. Hensing, A. Shaffer, D. Gonzalez-Velez
Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries (Burns), 2025