Experience
San Francisco, CA
Started frontend platform team to solve for duplicate work between teams; acted as engineering manager, tech lead, and product owner
Responsible for frontend architecture across 10 teams and 40 engineers; advisor in key company initiatives and engineering decisions
Introduced GraphQL into technology stack, built supporting infrastructure, and onboarded teams
Founded NerdWallet’s design system, partnered with product and design teams to develop into cohesive system used by all product teams across 60 apps
Tech lead for mobile app launch, successfully built and shipped NerdWallet iOS app in eight weeks
Built structured content format to enable native mobile experiences for NerdWallet’s vast library of consumer finance content
Led performance initiative resulting in 50% reduction to page load times across entire NerdWallet.com site
Partnered with engineering leadership and HR to redefine engineering job architecture
2014 — 2016
San Francisco, CA
Second engineering hire, responsible for frontend; led development of product through many iterations that culminated in a successful acquisition by NerdWallet
Partnered with CEO and product team on business decisions and product direction
Created application framework using React and Node; designed and implemented in-place data migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL; built A/B testing system
Enabled growth in engineering team by creating documentation, mentoring new hires, and setting standards for code quality, reuse, and best practices
Orange County, CA
Founding team of productivity app startup; worked closely with team and advisors on product
Created application framework for rapid prototyping; designed and built web experience in parallel with mobile experience; introduced devops practices and implemented CI/CD
Orange County, CA and Remote
Worked with clients to implement web application solutions for a diverse portfolio of projects ranging in e-commerce, social, and content platforms
Created trading platform to handle company’s $1B yearly trade volume; built real-time bidding virtual auction site; created management system for university grants
Managed additional developers on larger projects
Education
2009
UC Irvine
B.S.
2009