New York, New York, United States
Technical leader within the PayPal Credit Organization
// TBA
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Most senior tech lead over PayPal's branded checkout web applications, influencing product and engineering culture/outcomes across the company.
I was the platform architect for the PayPal Checkout branded web experience, leading a comprehensive and holistic overhaul of our tech stack, infrastructure, product, and software development lifecycles, and engineering culture across the company.
Led rewrite and front end consolidation of checkout to Next.js App Router - leading to 6x faster performance for p95 connections (and improving) and 3x and climbing developer velocity speedup
Tech Lead on PayPal Checkout web platform team
Member of web a11y team
optimizing developer experience and infra for a complex web project w/ 100+ engineers
tech: typescript, graphql, node, next.js app router, tRPC, tailwind, turborepo, playwright, vitest
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Led three front end engineering product teams building shop.advanceautoparts.com as well as a supporting developer experience team.
Led many cross functional initiatives related to tightening the software development lifecycle, shipping complicated features, and improving developer experience.
Established productive relationships w/ our software vendors (Vercel for example) and represented the company at conferences.
Established many processes to evolve and scale engineering culture including an RFC process, career ladders, PR templates, and other rules targeting a high trust and collaborative environment like aiming to have most PRs closed within a day and prioritizing pair programming for non-trivial tasks.
Was able to split a 20 person team up and break sprint velocity records with 2 teams made up of 4 and 6 engineers respectively.
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
I was one of the lead developers on AAP’s new mobile E-commerce app written with React Native, then spent several months helping to build a new cloud API layer to abstract calls to WebSphere Commerce and several other services, and a TypeScript SDK for that API as well. Acted as the tech lead for the company’s browser experience project where we rewrote shop.advanceautoparts.com and built a core shared UI library and common tooling for web projects while achieving 100% code coverage with React Testing Library with over 5000 integration tests.
Mentored junior developers in the Raleigh and Hyderabad offices.
Led a full site UI redesign with A/B testing that yielded 90% conversion rate uplift.
Took over AAP’s front end engineering interview process from front to back and interviewed dozens of candidates for roles ranging from junior to principal and solutions architect for our US and Hyderabad offices. Scaled the process and trained engineers on interviewing techniques that obtain good signal while optimizing psychological safety and candidate experience.
Skills used: Next.js, Node.js, React Native, Express, Typescript, Jest, Lerna, Turborepo, Cypress, LaunchDarkly
Education
2010 — 2014
North Carolina State University
Computer Science
2010 — 2014