Experienced engineer with proven track record of building and scaling products used by millions. Expert in frontend architecture and full-stack systems design with demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives. Passionate about developer experience, accessibility, and building performant engineering teams.

2022 — NowGitHubSenior Software Engineer

2022 — Now

Lead UI/UX engineer developing Copilot AI features for the Pull Requests platform, including Copilot code review and Copilot chat

Took Copilot code review features from early internal R&D to performing millions of reviews and automated code suggestions

Worked closely with design, product, data science, executive stakeholders, and outside partners to design release timelines for major product releases and developer conferences

Managed availability incidents for Pull Requests, a globally-used platform with 99.9% uptime

Designed and implemented API improvements for major features, resulting in a 98% reduction in compute spend with no impacts on usability or availability

Maintained a high level of accessibility for both new and existing features, ensuring that all users are

supported across the platform

2021 — 2022Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy CompanySenior Software Engineer

2021 — 2022

Lead UI engineer for ecommerce side of a digital education platform

Worked closely with design, product, and executive stakeholders to reduce customer friction

Developed standards for company-wide GitHub Actions usage and led the migration from the legacy CI/CD platform

Led adoption of TypeScript to improve code safety and developer experience

2019 — 2020PopdogSenior Software Engineer

2019 — 2020

Greenfield front-end development on highly-interactible site designed for streaming videogame content

Iterated with design and product on taking features from MVP to highly-polished and shippable states

Implemented performant, accessible, and localized component libraries

Designed and maintained infrastructure and deployments

Collaborated on design and implementation of backend features and services

Led internal engineering summit designed to help reduce knowledge silos between teams

2018 — 2019Return PathSenior Software Engineer, Technical Team Lead

2018 — 2019

Austin, Texas Area

Lead engineer on multi-application consumer product initiative

Balanced business needs, product direction, design considerations, and engineering capability

Designed and maintained infrastructure and deployments

Advised other engineering teams on technology use and best practices

Mentored and developed skills of team members; interviewed prospective hires

2015 — 2018Return PathSoftware Engineer

2015 — 2018

Austin, Texas Area

Led front-end development of React/Golang applications serving over one million users

Developed features and tools for an API with over four million users

Led R&D projects such as generating GRPC clients from Protocol Buyers

Mentored and trained junior engineers across the stack

Evaluated front-end technologies/practices for long-term use

Designed and maintained open-source API client libraries

Rebuilt and modernized legacy user-facing applications

Education

2010 — 2015

The University of Texas at Austin

Incomplete Bachelor's of Science

2010 — 2015

Experience+

Education

Incomplete Bachelor's of Science