Building the interface for Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud Enterprise product.

I became a leader on the team that built and maintained TuneIn.com, which had approximately 35M monthly active users. I initially helped ship a complete isomorphic rewrite of the web application using Node servers and modular components in React with Redux. After shipping, I contributed to user-facing improvements, including a responsive UI/design refresh, optimizations to the web audio streaming experience, and ongoing work to decrease page load times via code splitting and image optimization (read my blog post about optimizing images for the web below, written initially for our designers). With regard to the codebase, we worked continuously to stay abreast of industry best practices; I personally contributed to the improvement of our client and server error-tracking system through the use of log monitoring (Mode, Sumologic) and JS error capture reporting (Sentry), worked closely with QA, maintained a high level of unit test coverage, and worked with DevOps to modernize our CI/CD pipeline using Docker and Kubernetes. Finally, I often lead my team’s weekly tactical meeting, wherein we discussed challenges we faced and made collective decisions about solutions and best practices for the team to follow. I remain proud of the work we did and the relationships we built across the company.

As part of the founding engineering team, I was deeply involved in establishing both our software's foundational architecture and our company culture. As a lead engineer on a small team, I worked closely with other engineers, product owners and executive leadership to set goals and expectations for software development. I primarily focused on building the interface for an internal management system for student records, courses, and content. This interface allowed administrators to manage student applications and registration, as well as to create and review various types of course content; built using React.js, Redux, and Webpack with Django on the back end.

Lead the effort to migrate Zinio's online reading experience from PDF and Adobe Flash to a responsive HTML5-based solution using Backbone.js and SVG/JPEG magazine content. I also created a desktop application for offline reading using NW.js, a combination of Node.js and Chromium that runs applications built on web technologies. Lastly, I worked with business development to support partners as they implemented the online and offline readers in a variety of applications.

Gained web development experience by building many small-scale apps starting with Ruby and Ruby on Rails and later moving on to Javascript and Backbone.js.