• Created a much-requested new tool which enables the site’s 1M+ collection admins to generate fully-customized, responsive TypeScript page layouts from a single JSON object via a simple, intuitive form

• Transformed the workflow for displaying and editing reviews, replacing legacy PHP code with fully-tested TypeScript components and architecting 10+ desired new security and design features

• Designed and delivered a custom CMS to facilitate easy, risk-free edits for 14 highly-visible site pages

• Devised an efficient project management system to break down complex, ambiguous feature requests into a series of iterative phases, successfully closing more than 100 Jira tickets in the first 8 months

• Worked with an agile, 8-person team to optimize the user experience for the site’s 1.6M+ daily visitors

• Shipped 50+ new features and fixes as an engineering fellow for a digital library with 30M+ monthly visitors, ensuring code quality and maintainability with thorough end-to-end testing, linting and documentation

• Delivered a modern and user-friendly new registration process for the Internet Archive’s Open Library site, executing a full page redesign and adding 9 new validation checks using JavaScript, HTML and Python

• Optimized the site’s internationalization process, reducing the delay for new text translation availability from up to 6 months to less than 5 minutes by building a Python-based automation tool

• Collaborated with a cross-functional team of 15 via weekly meetings, code review, frontend and backend architecture best practices, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows

• Increased responsiveness, performance and scalability by up to 80% by overhauling and redesigning client sites, transforming bare-bones HTML sites and simple single page profiles into feature-rich React sites

• Reduced new page build time by > 90% in a Next.js rebuild of a SquareSpace site by replacing 13 repetitive individually-generated pages with a simple, reusable React component

• Synthesized client site objectives and aesthetic vision into actionable plans for site architecture, code and design, maintaining a 24 hour turnaround time between initial meeting and delivery of full proposal