Drove Dash monetization effort. Coordinated with dozens of engineers, directors, and product managers across multiple orgs to decide on and build a realistic monetization strategy for Dash with a path toward more ambitious monetization strategies.

Set up and managed waitlist, and built and iterated on onboarding flows across desktop, web, and browser extension surfaces.

Reduced effort required for new SKU launches from 20+ weeks to 2, and made it so teams could self-serve if needed.

Developed advanced add-ons, trials, promos, and various bundled plan types as tools that product owners could use to sell their products.

Reduced on-call alerts from 50 per week to 5.

Stepped up as temporary manager while continuing to handle Tech Lead responsibilities, handling roadmap planning, hiring, and cross-team coordination.

Worked with legal and security teams to ensure compliance, security, fraud and abuse prevention standards were consistently met.

Led five engineers in building a secure and scalable PDF Export tool for Paper docs and improved overall doc export speeds by 20%.

Helped build user-generated templates, now used to generate over 12% of new Paper docs.

Led investigations on how to transition Paper from a free product to a paid plan.

Worked on the first redesign of the Dropbox website and helped set up the first shared code between the Paper and Dropbox codebases.

Advocated for and built the Photo Album Exporter tool.

Built an AI Facial Recognition Rails app that found your closest celebrity match, trained with Spokeo’s large database of celebrity photos. Compared facial recognition techniques and APIs and presented findings to management.

Updated Spokeo’s WordPress blog theme to match the look and feel of the rest of the site and redesigned the comment structure to include nested comments and a like-tracking system.

Wrote an Ansible Playbook to automatically deploy the blog to Beta/Production sites.

Advocated for and built a street address corrector so results could show even if the address was mistyped.

Improved site performance with a cache-warming script.

As Developer: Implemented a path-finding algorithm that found the shortest path from the robot’s current location to its next delivery, translating that path into a set of JSON instructions and having the robot execute each instruction in order. Made Universal Windows app to directly control robot. Worked on web app UI, editing CSS. Resolved robot’s wheel synchronization problems and created method for calibrating the robot to consistently follow instructions.

As Program Manager: Brainstormed, chose, and designed project idea. Determined personas, user stories, deliverables, and tasks. Lead daily scrum meetings. Determined sprint cycle and organized and maintained Kanban board. Presented idea to managers, created video presentations of our progress for IoT leadership.

As Quality Assurance: Created master testing program to run all unit tests. Documented all use cases for robot and where, in each use case, something could go wrong. Tested project end to end, editing documentation. Created document outlining what telemetry data could be collected and used to improve the fridge. Worked with Legal team to determine privacy strategy.

Throughout the internship: Designed and ran multiple demos for managers, IoT leadership, and company at large.