(acquired by Prenda Nov 2022)
•Achieved ~$1M ARR and successful acquisition by driving all encompassing engineering strategy/OKRs that reduced feature development time by 2x despite headcount reduction and increased productivity of acquiring company’s engineering team by removing legacy backend code (~91% decrease in LLOC)
•Created and refined hiring process (mix of technical screens, hiring manager calls, and behavioral/technical on-sites) and led to 2 mid-level and 1 senior engineering hire
•Reduced code review time by 30% and frequency of post deploy bug fixes by 50% by establishing a technical design documentation process with 100% adoption rate across the engineering org
•Modernized Ruby on Rails backend with minimal user impact by migrating from Rails 4.2 to 5.2 and designing a canary deployment processes on Heroku
•Enabled Product/Operations analytics leading to 13% decrease in Tutor payroll costs by designing and implementing an event sourcing pipeline
•Reduced costs by 50% of event sourcing pipeline infrastructure by moving from AWS (Lambda, SQS, RDS) to a Rails 7 app on Heroku