2024 — Now
New York City Metropolitan Area
Technical lead for Insights: proposed, drove and productionized a proof of concept into a core product feature that drove sales.
Designed and shipped a reliable transactional email pipeline for file ingestion/processing using SQS with automated DLQ alerting, improving failure visibility and response time.
Owned cloud infra and deployments (AWS, Terraform, ECS, Docker); authored a deployment playbook to standardize releases and reduce operational risk.
Improved test quality and confidence: raised unit coverage 65% → 72% and Playwright end-to-end coverage 75% → 79%.
Drove process improvements- introduced Slack standups, structured refinement meetings, ticket-review reminders and informal “hallway chats” to speed decisions, increase team cohesion and async productivity.
Self-started growth and funnel tooling: implemented A/B tests for top-of-funnel outreach, automated sharing of Zoom recordings, and built a dashboard to track funnel performance across channels.
Influenced company strategy and GTM: pushed for faster learning velocity via customer segmentation and discovery calls, narrowed GTM channels, and shifted focus from best-guess activity to validated learning.
2022 — 2023
Architected, delivered, and iterated backend systems that power the WW mobile app.
WW’s in-house content management system, Space, allows curating content and enables many core member experiences, including the homepage of the WW app (4 million daily active users). On the Space team:
Upon joining the team, I turned it around from net negative productivity (more bugs being created than feature work shipped) to consistently delivering high-value features. For the existing developers on the team, I helped them increase their productivity by over 30% through mentorship, shared accountability, and process improvements.
In response to user feedback that the app was overwhelming, I spearheaded integration with the company’s A/B testing platform. This enabled us to make data-driven reductions to the amount of content on the homepage (we ultimately removed 60% of it), and doing so helped users focus on the most impactful in-app behaviors. This in turn led to higher user retention and improved weight loss outcomes.
Reduced support requests from content managers by 65% via a combination of technical solutions (auto-updating client apps post-deployment, rewriting the API validation layer, and improving client-side error messages), process improvements (ensuring support conversations occurred in public channels so the entire team could contribute and learn), and education (creating a handbook of common use cases and questions about the CMS).
Progressed the project from risky deployments with no regular cadence to bi-weekly deployments with an actionable playbook and effective monitoring and alerting tools. Collaborated closely with the DevOps team to reliably run our applications on AWS using Docker and Kubernetes.
New York, United States
Architected, built, and launched a greenfield service that powers a critical behavior change feature on the home screen of the app. It successfully drove increased engagement, including a 20% increase in weight tracking (a key determinant of member success on the WW program).
Food search and tracking is WW’s core business, helping members to engage with the proprietary points system and science-backed portion control. I led the Search and Tracking Team in safely and incrementally reducing the massive scope of this legacy project, defined a path towards decoupling teams working within a monolith, and revamped the deployment process to lower risk and raise bus factor. All of this was done while releasing new features, mentoring junior engineers, and amidst broader organizational changes.
Greater New York City Area
When the pandemic began, WW’s in-person events transitioned to online. Collecting attendance data was crucial and required us to use Zoom’s rate-limited event registration API. I designed and delivered a job queue and worker architecture using Postgres and Node that registers members up to but not over the rate limit. It uses update queries to both batch select workloads and mark them as in process, cutting down on network time and eliminating the risk of duplicate processing across workers. WW is currently using this system to gather key insights on the audiences of live events.
At Ameriprise, I was tasked with green field development of a replacement for a legacy financial advisor dashboard. The tech stack (React, Redux, and Typescript) was new to me, but I got up to speed quickly and in five months was promoted from software engineer to technical lead. A month later I moved to New York and became 100% remote. The following summer the dashboard was completed and over 20,000 financial advisors are now using it.
Dashboard-Specific Accomplishments
Provided tailored mentorship to the three junior developers on my team.
Fostered constructive relationships with colleagues lateral to the project, including product owners, DevOps engineers, back end developers, and UX designers.
Broader Initiatives – Self-Started and done in parallel with project work.
Overhauled UI testing for the front end group.
Took ownership of and delivered a major version upgrade of the shared component library that is used across all React projects at Ameriprise.
Designed the interview process for front end engineers.
Education
2024 — 2024
Terra.do
Fellowship
2024 — 2024
2016 — 2016
Dev Bootcamp
Full-stack development
2016 — 2016
2015 — 2015
Western Governors University
Bachelor's Degree
2015 — 2015
2014 — 2014
Metro State University
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
2014 — 2014
2010 — 2012
Riverland Community College
Associate of Arts (A.A.)
2010 — 2012