San Francisco, California, United States
Tech lead of the Web Platform domain, driving northstar strategy and cross-domain collaboration.
Re-architected the web monorepo with Nx, resolving performance bottlenecks across desktop, mobile web, and webviews. Built an internal package system for core services (auth, events, enums, types).
Developed new telemetry and observability foundations — migrated from Sentry to Datadog RUM/Session Replay, created a Web Ops Dashboard, automated monitoring with Terraform, and trained design, product, and engineering teams.
Led Web Ephemeral Environments — deployable, auto-shutdown dev instances in Garden/Kubernetes, replacing shared QA environments.
Led Native AI strategy, standardizing developer tooling (Cursor, Figma, Jira), improving code reviews, and strengthening on-call incident detection across engineering.
Led AI chatbot vendor evaluation, Messages app migration, AI chatbot integration, and Zendesk efficiency improvements, establishing best practices for AI adoption.
Led web performance roadmap — automated deployment of assets to Google Cloud CDN, CI/CD pipeline optimizations, and implemented app-level optimizations (e.g. WebP migration, API batching).
Migrated web apps from legacy authentication to a unified, optimized Auth0 implementation, with cross-platform observability.
Migrated monorepo to LaunchDarkly for flags and built a custom events gateway for Snowplow with robust APIs.
Owned front-end infrastructure for key apps: Member, Fertility Portal, MPractice Practitioner, and Messages.
Defined standards for code ownership, package management, testing, and on-call expectations.
Consultant for Design Systems, emphasizing maintenance, accessibility, and performance.
Co-led Web Guild and strengthened company-wide guild system.
Mentored web engineers on testing, performance, and accessibility; led interviews and revamped coding/design screens.
2014 — Now
if-me.org is a free and open source mental health communication app translated in into thirteen languages and counting, with thousands of users. It is powered by Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Webpack, CircleCI, and Heroku. I manage and mentor hundreds of developers, designers, writers, and other non-technical contributors from all over the world. I have given keynote talks about the project at Open Source Bridge, AnxietyTech, Write/Speak/Code San Francisco, and the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. We were featured on the Code Newbies Podcast and the Huffington Post Blog. From 2017 to 2020, we've been mentoring women developers for Rails Girls Summer of Code. Since 2016, we've participated in Hacktoberfest. In 2023, we were part of the first cohort of social impact open source projects in GitHub's Open Source (OS) Community Manager Program.
2022 — 2023
San Francisco, California, United States
Part of engineering leadership for Web Platform (consisted of three teams) doing front-end infrastructure and web performance for core engineering — led the React JSX transform project for the massive web codebase, led the auditing and migration of 100+ observability dashboards, monitors, and alerts, developed a strong partnership with the Observability team and created a system for other engineering teams to tackle their migrations, and led efforts to improve and simplify current SSR implementations for performance
Previously part of the cross-functional leadership (data, design, engineering, and product) for Shop Pay
Installments (consisted of four teams, in partnership with Affirm) — contributed to engineering strategy, led the project for expanding back-end infrastructure to enable international expansion, worked on the buyer data migration and sharding and the flexible pricing and plans projects, and created/facilitated a recurring staff+ engineering alignment sync
On both the Web Platform and Shop Pay Installments teams: mentored and coached entry to senior level engineers, a primary reviewer for tech design docs, and a source of technical expertise through pair programming
Created the Inclusive Meeting Guidelines, which can be adopted and customized by any team at Shopify
Oakland, California, United States
Engineering lead for the Customer Empowerment (Support) domain - domain lead (works directly with product, customer, and design leads) that oversees the engineering architecture and roadmap across both the internal and external customer support and knowledge tools teams
Previous Engineering lead for the End-to-End domain (Growth, Discover and Engage, Onboarding, and New User Journey teams) — led projects for the front door (discovery tool) redesign, collapsible and accessible left nav, left nav performance improvements, improving experiment infrastructure, and the new app homepage redesign
Previously on the Front-end Platform team developing best practices for migrating from Dojo to React and doing architecture work on the Growth and Commerce product teams: led initiatives to speed up front-end development workflow and the production deploy (built a strong partnership with the SRE team), and built a front-end API client used across engineering
Leadership across front-end engineering: developed the Front-end Portal to consolidate all front-end and design system engineering documentation with Gatsby, pair programming with product engineers, including testing and accessibility, code reviewer for various product teams, developed the onboarding process for new hires, and advisor for design system, accessibility, and animation initiatives
Interviewing leadership: developed the front-end engineering "Choose Your Own Adventure" interview process, trained interviewers, and conducted interviews for ICs and managers
Chair of the Disability and Neurodiversity Alliance, the disability and mental health employee resource group
Mentored entry to senior level engineers, especially from underrepresented groups, to get involved in giving conference talks and career growth coaching
San Francisco, California, United States
Engineering lead on Headspace for Work, the B2B offering of the main product
Helping to build and maintain product roadmap, including navigating hundreds of multinational client relationships, due to the absence of hands-on product manager
Architected and launched Headspace for Work MVP in less than 6 months
Developing engineering best practices including improving test coverage and pull request review process
Mentored engineers in the web chapter
Created and maintained the design system for web and React app boilerplate
Worked with engineering leadership to improve the interview process and to create a more inclusive engineering culture
Education
University of Waterloo
Honours Bachelor of Computer Science
Michael Power St. Joseph High School