New York, New York, United States
New York, New York, United States
Manage a team of 12 frontend and backend engineers (including 2 unit leads), driving the development of Gro’s client-facing products (API, SDK, applications, Excel add-in etc), overseeing all aspects of project planning, technical design, execution, and delivery.
Shipped many features from 0-1 across data discovery, search, data retrieval, data visualization, and on-the-fly computations.
Collaborated closely with the Platform team to implement and integrate the transition from monolithic to microservice architecture, devising a phased approach, defining core data shapes, crafting testing plans, and establishing performance metrics to ensure seamless execution.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams on roadmap, team priorities, and product requirements.
Direct recruitment efforts, facilitated onboarding processes, conducted regular mentorship sessions and performance evaluation.
New York, New York, United States
Led a team of 4-6 individuals, overseeing technical direction, component architecture, and code hygiene.
As a team, we undertook a complete overhaul of our core API and data visualization platform to accommodate data schema changes from a hierarchical structure to an Ontology model, ensuring consistent data shape and facilitating easier discovery.
Furthermore, we spearheaded the successful launch of several critical product features from scratch, such as self-service onboarding, payment integration and subscription lifecycle management (using Stripe), user authentication/authorization, data discovery (leveraging Apache Solr) as well as the Gro Python SDK.
2014 — 2017
New York, New York, United States
Founding member of the in-house engineering team, first hire for API & frontend.
Led the successful evolution of the Gro data insight platform from prototype to a fully operational production-level application.
2013 — 2014
CMS Team:
Contributed as the major front end developer for Yodle's new generation of CMS. Provided architecture and front end solution for this component-based system, which powered over 10,000 Yodle's clients' websites.
Collaborated closely with designers, delivering high quality front end work while helping designers balance visual design with dynamic contents.
Conducted A/B tests with the team through Optimizely.
Bootstrap Team:
"Angularized" Yodle's Bootstrap, a module-based front end framework for all internal products.
YOBO Team:
This conference room booking app was the winner during Yodle's hackathon in 2013.
Education
Columbia University
M.S
Hunan University