Jay Papisan

Jay Papisan

Jay Papisan

Senior Software Engineer, Growth @webflow

I've worked mostly on intersection between experimentation and software engineering to drive user growth and smooth over problems in activation and new user onboarding. I like thinking about and writing code that helps new users get going with products and features.

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Experience

2024 — NowWebflowSenior Software Engineer, Growth

2024 — Now

Pitch, prototype and execute growth experiments to increase core business metrics

2022 — 2024WebflowFrontend Engineer, Growth

2022 — 2024

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Fine-tune AI model with custom data pipeline - boosting

accuracy of onboarding responses by 30%

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Write performant client and server-side JavaScript (React,

Flux, Flow, Angular) through a complex 10 yr old codebase

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Design, implement and monitor dozens growth experiments in product

to improve user activation, engagement and onboarding

2020 — 2022SamsaraFrontend Engineer, Growth

2020 — 2022

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Build reusable components and frontend experiences across 4

code bases in multiple JS & CSS frameworks (Nuxt, Vue,

Tailwinds, Flask, Jinja, Sass)

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Create internal tool with React & Contentful CMS for marketers

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Lead research, implementation and own deployment pipeline

(AWS / GitHub Actions / Cypress ) & WCAG strategy

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Cofounded Samsara’s Accessibility Working Group-

2018 — 2020LaunchDarklyFrontend Web Developer

2018 — 2020

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Contributed features to internal data tool in Typescript, React,

Redux-observable

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Sole developer responsible for launchdarkly.com 200+ page

marketing app built in Gatsby, React, GraphQL

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Configured end-to-end tests with Cypress, continuous

integration (CircleCI), AWS and Github

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Improved mobile lighthouse performance score by +50%

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Fully integrated experimentation (A/B/n), dozens of analytics

tools

2015 — 2017HarvestPlusSenior Research Analyst

2015 — 2017

Education

University of Mississippi

BA

Georgia State University

MA

Thammasat University

Study Abroad