Chief of Staff to the CTO | Software Engineer | Conference Speaker
Hi, I’m Daphne! I’m a Chief of Staff to the CTO at Grow Therapy, helping make mental health care more accessible.
Partnered with the CTO to align Engineering, Product, Design, and Data leaders, strengthening cross-org communication, shared vision, and high-value engagement forums.
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Led a cross-functional GenAI adoption program, driving 43% increase in engineering usage and establishing governance, tooling, and operating models to scale AI in alignment with company OKRs.
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Owned executive communications strategy with the CTO and senior leaders, delivering leadership briefs, company-wide newsletters, and all-hands content reaching 150+ employees and increasing visibility into technical strategy.
Collaborated with external stakeholders at Humana to lead API integration by aligning cross-functional teams and streamlining future integrations with standardized code templates.
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Established a roadmap to optimize Sentry utilization, forming a task force, conducting surveys with tech leads, and empowering engineers to catch bugs before production with best practices.
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Fostered cross-team knowledge sharing and collaboration by running tech talks and championing inclusion initiatives leading the Asian employee resource group.
Maintained the UI component library in React, TypeScript, and HTML/CSS used by 100+ frontend engineers.
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Unlocked a $10M government contract by elevating accessibility in all 89 products to meet industry standard (WCAG 2.0).
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Collaborated cross-functionally with 3 designers, 6 senior/staff engs to plan roadmap & ensure cross-platform consistency.
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Led major release of new UI component library version by devising migration plan focused on resilience and adopted type safety across the board. Wrote thorough documentation and rallied a group of early adopters for safe rollout.
