I've worked directly under the CTO, crafting reusable, headless UI components to streamline development and enhance scalability. In close collaboration with the team, I deliver complex, impactful features tailored for both our direct clients and their end-users, ensuring high-quality, flexible solutions that align with Akia’s innovative approach to customer engagement.

Engineering Manager, Messenger Web & Facebook Internal Tools | Meta

Transitioned into management to lead the 14-person Messenger Web team, split across two specialized groups: one focused on user-facing product improvements and another on infrastructure, notably building and maintaining Rescript (previously ReasonML), a powerful OCaml-to-JavaScript compiler library. As Engineering Manager, I leveraged my Tech Lead experience to maintain strategic partnerships and spearhead impactful initiatives, including evolving Messenger Web into an End-to-End Encrypted platform and upgrading the Facebook.com chat interface in line with Meta’s extensive web overhaul.

A key accomplishment was advocating for a fully remote Rescript team, with members based in Zurich, Shenzhen, NYC, and Menlo Park, facilitating global collaboration and flexibility. Later, I supported Facebook’s internal Tasks and Butterfly teams, guiding the launch of a streamlined approach to task organization and automation while ensuring continuity for existing workflows.

Technical Lead & Manager, Messenger Web UI | Meta

Led the team behind all Messenger web experiences, including Chat on Facebook.com and the standalone Messenger.com. Key contributor to the initial launch of Messenger.com—the first platform to extend Facebook's infrastructure beyond Facebook.com—where I developed and maintained core components of the web interface. As Technical Lead, I drove efforts to deliver a seamless, fast, and reliable messaging experience to a global audience, collaborating closely with Messaging Infrastructure teams for system reliability and partnering with teams like Workplace to adapt our stack to their unique needs.

I've been providing UI/UX enhancements and overhauls since before it was cool.

I usually team up with experienced designers to make sure we deliver exquisitely simple solutions to the most complex problems.

Most of my projects were WordPress-based development, JavaScript Applications, JavaScript/CSS3 driven User Interfaces and User Interaction design.

Rapid prototyper and Remote Teams Lead

I spent a long time overseeing our rapid prototyping team's efforts in which we attempted to create simple games to see how novel mechanics would actually feel in a game. The learnings from this team were incorporated into multiple live games

As Remote Teams Lead, I managed a remote vendor in Scotland, splitting my time between Berlin and Dundee, Scotland - then facilitating collaboration with a San Francisco based cross platform compiler for our games.