“In 2018/2019 I oversaw work for the development of a "Smart City" app for Avis Rental Car. I brought in Keyairra Wright to be part of that project, and she then played a central role. The Smart City app had to integrate data from dozens of APIs: buses, taxis, airlines, subways, Uber, Lift, Lime, etc. The app itself was a React project, and Keyairra demonstrated great skill in the coding of the app, the review of the code with her teammates, and the finding and fixing of all bugs. She has natural leadership qualities, and the rest of the team informally relied on her to provide guidance when that guidance was lacking from other parts of the project. The vagaries of the project made planning difficult, and those difficulties became obstacles that the team had to overcome. For instance, we initially relied on an outside firm in Switzerland to generate estimates of distance and travel time for us, but when the Swiss firm proved unable to deliver what we needed, we took over much of the work ourselves, with Keyairra playing a key role in planning what that transition would look like. Another example, at one point Avis almost canceled funding for the project, then they increased the funding, then later they limited the funding. With every change we made new plans about how many people we could hire. In the end most of the work was handled by just three people, of whom Keyairra played a crucial role in deciding how the work should be distributed among teammates. In short, Keyairra is an excellent software developer who cares about the quality of the code on a project; she also has such excellent team skills that others on the team naturally look to her for help resolving any bugs, reviewing any code, or making decisions about how work should be divided up. In a crisis, she remains calm, and when facing turbulence on a project, she helps organize everyone to make the changes necessary to ensure success despite the turbulence. Any team of which she is a part is automatically stronger because of her presence. ”
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