Lead & Architect for new product vertical, Taxes & Bookkeeping

Established programs for continued technical learning amongst engineering team and provided 1:1 mentoring

Updated processes around performance reviews, on-call procedures, and introduced automated testing to the codebase

Architect & launched multi stage ML pipeline that processes credit card applications and underwrites them

Solo frontend dev across all of our clients: web, desktop, mobile, browser extensions.

Optimized onboarding experience during initial launch

Established obscure web extension features like creating and re-hydrating text highlights on any web page and creating branded images in browser w/ user content that are then shared on social media.

Joined a small team that was tasked with applying a rebranding to every aspect of our application

This required heavy cross-team communication, as we touched every team's product and wanted to be non-disruptive to their ongoing work.

Incorporated some accessibility and mobile web improvements along the way

Formed a small internal group that was passionate about web accessibility and wanted to help leadership establish accessibility practices and processes

My preliminary work for the group focused around determining a way to automate the generation of an "accessibility score" for our app so we could have a baseline and track our improvement over time

Accessibility scoring involved research into various web-drivers, accessibility audit tools, metric reporting tools, and CI integrations. Settled on a small custom project using Puppeteer and Lighthouse, where we run a routine task on Jenkins that audits against our production application and sends the metrics to Datadog.

Started with a company hackathon where my team built a mobile app to facilitate better one-on-one conversations between managers and direct reports

Formed a new Conversations team, built an MVP, continuously talked to users, went through several iterations incorporating user feedback before an official launch to 100% of clients

Some of the fun challenges include: FE+BE implementation of drag and drop reordering for Conversation Topics (ranked-model gem, react-beautiful-dnd), data denormalization pipeline that transforms our Conversations data into something that our Analytics product can read and report on (Python, postgres to elasticsearch), allowing rich text editing on mobile browsers (DraftJS to Trix w/ custom React wrapper), and BE for generating emails and notifications using an event based system and tackled performance concerns when we scaled out of our Beta.

Research to determine tools and time estimates for accomplishing this

Communicated with various stakeholders to find time for this in the project roadmap

Collaborated with FE team to establish a process and crank through the conversion

Worked in a small cross-functional team as the FE lead

Established OAuth flows on our platform for various 3rd party systems

Produced 7 different integrations with services like Eventbrite and Marketo as well as a custom webhook service to allow clients to build against our platform.

Configured our web app to produce multiple bundles, the main app and then webviews that are meant to be optimized and served via our mobile clients.

Optimized bundle sizes by reducing unnecessary 3rd party code, determining the critical css, and creating simple UI components that can be shared across bundles. Resulted in a ~30% reduction in bundle size.

Added localization to the webviews using Phraseapp and a custom utility for determining a users language preference and serving the correct strings (3rd party tools like react-intl were too large and more robust than necessary for our needs).