•Built Hopjump's main product - a hotel booking website - from scratch with one direct report. Migrated from Rails HAML/SASS to a React SPA with server-side rendering to enable UX similar to competitors. Grew the app to handle payments, customer service, advanced search criteria, a map-based UI, accounts and login, etc.
•Hired two additional direct reports, Tech Lead on a team of 6 engineers in total, zero turnover during 3+ years
•Tech lead for acquisition of SmarterTravel Media LLC from TripAdvisor. Transitioned 7 of their websites to Hopjump's infrastructure in 8 weeks, leading an expanded team of 9 engineers. All 80 Java repositories and 17 services from the acquisition re-deployed with zero downtime, securing a new revenue stream.
•Led a team of 3 engineers in re-implementing a partner company's landing page over 6 weeks. Utilized Cloudflare Workers to reduce loading time by 60%, giving the partner a 5% conversion rate lift.
•Prototyped and taught best practices across Eng/UX/Analyst teams to solve urgent business roadblocks. Topics included Kubernetes, FastAPI integration testing, React and its key libraries, Redshift DB performance.