As a software engineer, and as a person, my goal is to empower people. This has led to a deep passion for teaching/mentoring and working with mission-driven companies to make impactful and felt differences in the lives of both end-users and teams.
Owned the greenfield frontend product and team from pre-alpha through public release.
Product Engineering
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Designed and developed a configuration-driven multi-step form library enabling
the creation and management of complex legal workflows via a CMS
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Partnered with design to define, build, and migrate to an official Opto design
system, speeding up feature delivery by a factor of 4
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Optimized performance through both user experience hacks and true API and database optimizations, minimizing the number of performance-related bug reports and speeding up network calls by up to 94%
Platform Engineering
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Established and maintained third-party integrations; streamlining developer experience around feature flags, analytics, automated QA, environment variables, etc.
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Built an API testing framework that unified testing technologies across TypeScript, Java, and Python codebases
Leadership
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Architected a skills-based hiring process and made final hiring decisions, efficiently scaling the team from 1 to 7 engineers
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Provided mentorship and coaching in both hard- and soft-skills to teammates of all levels of seniority across the engineering organization
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Drove the organization as a whole to identify and adopt an intentional culture based on growth, transparency, and trust
Lead a team of instructors with a focus on upskilling both their technical and instructional aptitudes while empowering them within the vagaries that comes with contracted curriculum development and instruction.
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Acted as PM and/or Technical Lead for internal projects building out tools to automate and streamline internal processes
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Worked with the LMS team to improve existing features and develop new features
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Maintained multiple internal developer tools
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Spearheaded a curricula transformation involving a five-phase redesign to establish mature and modular content
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Incepted and formalized policies emphasizing instructor development and well-being
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Designed curriculum and resources for non-technical personnel and clients to explain the value provided by my team
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Worked to formalize a pipeline and curriculum that upskills recent bootcamp grads beyond entry-level positions with a focus on production-level applications using modern tooling and microservice chassis
Lead global enterprises in making digital transformations through the adoption of modern engineering practices and the up-skilling and re-skilling of their existing workforce in classroom and controlled lab environments.
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Continued with all of the activities from Associate Enterprise Instructor below
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Led classroom delivery and curriculum development efforts within the team of instructors
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Developed curricular solutions that match the needs of our Enterprise clients
