Fun on the Internet is a small design studio building making fun things like Cool Stuff, an app to save all the cool stuff you find on the web.

Acquired by Fullscript in Oct 2024.

Joined as second engineering hire and built many of the core foundational systems. Established architectural patterns that enabled 21x growth leading up to acquisition. Led engineering team processes and standards, driving 3x increase in eng-led projects. Scaled engineering team from 2 to 14 through technical interviewing and mentorship.

Led redesign of results ingestion system, achieving major cost reduction and matching performance improvements through LLM-based automation. Built the developer ecosystem (API, SDK, webhooks, documentation), enabling a significant new integrations business – managed technical relationships with enterprise API clients and owned roadmap as eng lead.

Drove a bunch of focused tech initiatives including an API performance optimization with 80% faster response times and platform-wide UI modernization, delivering significant improvements in React rendering performance.

Junto was an iOS and Android app designed to help you learn all the soft skills required to succeed at work. Things like negotiation, creative thinking, motivating teams. An innovative interactive format made learning easy and fun 🍄.

· Designed an in-house graph-based authoring format that powered interactive lessons, allowing course designers to create unique branching courses tailored to each student.

· Built a production team of educators, writers, and designers that produced over 4 high-quality, interactive courses monthly.

· Built a real-time, collaborative course editor to meet the production team’s rapid course development schedule.

· Designed and built the iOS and Android apps with React Native. Used by 20k+ professionals with a 87% course completion rate.

· Raised $1.5M in seed capital from Harrison Metal.

Started in London 🌧, accelerated by Techstars in NYC 🍏, and finally landing in San Francisco ☀️, Gather was a powerful data management platform designed for customer success teams.

Hired several engineers. Led design and development of the enterprise-level data management platform that managed data for thousands of customers. Built an advanced ML-based predictive analytics system for churn prediction.