Emily Halpern
Software Engineer at Spoke LLC
Portsmouth, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Halpern is a senior software engineer with seven years of experience building and securing full-stack web applications for agencies and mid-market clients. She pairs hands-on expertise in Laravel, React, PHP, MySQL and custom API integrations with deep Linux server and cloud (AWS S3, Linode) operations, including migrations, deployments and disaster recovery planning. Emily specializes in Linux security—DDos and brute-force mitigation, malware removal, reverse engineering of system attacks—and routinely conducts CLI log analysis and remediation using tools like fail2ban, ClamAV and rkhunter. She’s led technical strategy and client-facing engineering at boutique agencies, translating marketing goals into resilient, high-performing digital ecosystems while improving QA and performance. Notably, she has a track record of identifying and removing legacy PHP backdoors and educating stakeholders on CVE risks in plugin-heavy environments. Based in Portsmouth, VA, she combines product-minded UX sensibilities with practical security-first engineering.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts, 3.8, Liberal Arts, 3.8 at Queens University of CharlotteDiploma, 4.3, Diploma, 4.3 at Cox Mill High School
English
Github Skills (18)
react3
linux2
aws-lambda1
responsive-design1
responsive1
redux1
single-page1
fitness1
lambda-functions1
single-page-application1
serverless1
backbone1
serverless-applications1
api1
aws1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
moranhae/The-Skin-Suite-ReactMaster
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Master Skin Suite Repository
Contributions:44 commits, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 3 days
reactlinuxmasterreactjssuite
moranhae/carmellas_website
Apr 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
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