San Carlos, California, United States
• A founding engineer on the Finance Growth team
• Revamped FBN’s most used finance loan application to improve the UX flow for farmers, reduce support tickets and make it easy to integrate with new financing partners.
• Architected the React frontend for AcreVision, FBN’s flagship land evaluation tool that attracted new user signups, increased engagement from existing members, and grew land loan applications. Utilized the Google Maps API and data visualization libraries
• Increased land loan applications and helped users evaluate FBN’s loan products by building a Farm Land Loan Calculator. Focussed on improving accessibility using Lighthouse and WCAG, employing html attributes helpful to screen readers, and supporting keyboard-only use.
• Built a collection of reusable React components, simplifying the updating of marketing pages using Contentful CMS. Wrote documentation on each component’s purpose and usage. Instrumented analytics and wrote unit tests
• Contribute to project planning by writing implementation plans, providing estimates, and flagging risks. Determine technologies to use based on project requirements, timeline, maintainability, and user needs
• Monitor and triage bugs; remedy root causes using debugging strategies including backtracking and cause-elimination. Communicate problems and solutions with the team as bugs happen and in retrospectives.
• Conduct code reviews on a near daily basis, assessing the presence and quality of tests, simplicity, readability, clear naming, adherence to contribution guidelines, and relevant documentation