The Search Platforms Team worked on improving the speed and performance of the search results page. This included essential image and rendering optimizations, as well as creative UI changes to improve the user perception of latency. I worked on Soft/Express Transitions, a project to issue async requests for the next search results page on a refinement click (i.e. “People Also Search For”) and use javascript animation to seamlessly transition from one page to the next while pre-filling the next page with cached data.

The Explore Team designed, prototyped, built, and ran experiments on new features for the search results page. Some features I worked on included PDF Previews (adding thumbnail preview images and metadata to PDF results) and Visual Web (updating the rendering for thumbnail images on individual web results on mobile search pages and experimenting with many other UI updates and interaction changes).

The Web Team managed all of Venmo’s web presence from venmo.com to webviews that appear within the native apps. Specific projects included rewriting the logged out payment links page, rewriting the settings pages, and rewriting the developer site using React and Redux as well as contributing to a full app rewrite in React/Redux.