Sparrow makes it easy for employers to care for their people with the first true end-to-end employee leave management solution. Industry-leading tech is coupled with a world-class leave specialist team to automate the most painful parts of leave across the US and Canada. With Sparrow, companies that care are able to reduce compliance risks, enhance the employee experience, operate better, and contain costs.

I serve as the tech lead on our revenue code base, written with FastAPI with a React front end written with TypeScript. Most of the effort is putting in place process that gets us to continuous delivery and more frequent releasing with lower-stress releases.

In my transition out of the Head of Engineering role, I was an engineering manager for a brief period as we onboarded our new VP of Engineering and Engineering Manager

During our growth period, we also experienced both huge scaling challenges and a period of unprecedented hiring. During this 6 month period, I led hiring and technical direction on the engineering team. I grew the engineering team from 6 engineers at the start of this period to 18 engineers, as well as a VP of engineering.

I also led technical decision making for a new backend designed to solve our additional scale and be an extensible platform to build on.

This role was interim because the VP of engineering took over the roles and responsibilities of this role.

I came back to Classkick as an IC during a time of unprecedented growth. During this time, we scaled about 20x year over year, fixed bottlenecks in our platform, created new bottlenecks, and repeated.