Lead Engineer & Technical Founder | 8+ yrs Full-stack | Building MVPs, scaling systems, and aligning engineering with business outcomes
Technical founder and senior full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience architecting and scaling products across startups and high-traffic platforms. Proven track record as a hands-on tech lead delivering MVPs, driving revenue growth, and mentoring teams.
As lead developer, interfaced with partners and stakeholders and designed, implemented, and delivered a solution to integrate a partner's courses via SCORM Connect, which resulted in projected 300k-500k yearly revenue
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I "Informally stepped into the role of team technical lead", quoting my manager
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Designed, implemented, and rolled out a course authoring API for edx.org (https://studio.edx.org/authoring-api/ui/) that allows automatic creation of courses which increases revenue
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Senior Engineer responsibilities in the team responsible for course authoring at edx
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Development of features for edx.org, an e-learning platform with 40 million users, one of the top 1000 websites worldwide (https://learnopoly.com/edx-statistics/)
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Open-source maintainership and feature development within OpenEdx, a massive community (GitHub.com/openedx) powering thousands of education sites worldwide
Software Engineer for RTL News / rtl.de, a major German news platform with 200k-2M page visits per day.
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Created new Video Playlist feature that increased performance over previous tool
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Designed and implemented a Persistence / Cache storage layer for articles in MongoDB that significantly improved page performance, which increased page visits and thus revenue
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Implemented a range of frontend performance, Core Web Vitals, and SEO improvements that increased page visits and revenue
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Implemented new features for RTL.de that allowed us to reduce dependence on third party tools which lowered operating costs
Tech consultant on the company's largest client project, a vendor portal, for a major international retail chain
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As a React expert, led the migration of the whole project from jQuery to React
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Proposed, designed, and implemented a React component library for the project that fully solved the migration problems and client complaints the team was previously facing
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Created a complex data table component that allows cell editing, versioning, commenting and revising
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Lead developer for a team of 3 over 2 months to adjust the vendor portal to the Asian market; drove work from client requirements to design and implementation, succeeded to client's satisfaction and finished earlier than planned
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Mentored the whole team in React, git processes, and Agile
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Proposed and shifted team to a hybrid SCRUM approach that replaced the earlier waterfall workflow and solved some significant issues in team efficiency
