Building an AI-powered software for lawyers

Developed an AI-powered market intelligence platform for corporate strategy teams to provide insight into a company's or market's traction.

All things engineering on legacy and greenfield products, from full-stack coding and devOps to managing and hiring other engineers

– Led agile team of 3 to 5 engineers in architecture, prototyping, and delivery of greenfield portfolio management product for commercial real estate teams, resulting in successful sales.

– Initiated tech strack transition (Ember/Django to React/Node) to reduce cycle time during feature development by 50% and allow us to recruit from a broader hiring pool.

– Ensured mentorship and success of the existing team during that transition.

– Improved stability of queuing and caching system of legacy software and reduced tech debt in data schema, thereby eliminating 2-3 production incidents a month and saving 40 hours a week of customer success and product employee time.

– Collaborated closely with product and design to clarify ambiguous requirements, create sales-aligned roadmaps, and form SMART quarterly goals.

– Managed a team of software engineers of diverse work experience, education, and identity backgrounds using an open and empathetic communication style.

– Managed team of 4, leading design and development of full stack features in Javascript, Groovy, and PHP for best-in-market ad campaign management and analytics platform.

– Initiated agile standards, including daily standups, biweekly retrospectives, and continuous integration using Jenkins, thereby reducing shipped bugs by 80% and improving morale across engineering, QA, and product team of 20.

– Improved high-touch client relationships by expediting implementation of custom solution to retain $200k annual contract and by representing engineering team during executive team's international visit to major ridesharing business.

– Designed top-to-bottom overhaul of ad deploy system to make ad objects mutable.

– Full stack experience shipping features for building and deploying ads combinatorically across multiple channels.

– Controlled scrum process for twenty person engineering and QA team, including remote members.

– Consolidated three high-conflict teams into one process stream.

– Implemented full stack features in Javascript and Groovy/Grails (e.g. new ad types and channels, in-app video slideshow editor, scheduling and split testing ad deploys) to rival Facebook's internal tools.

– Implemented innovative features to stay ahead of Facebook's own internal tools, including an editor to make video slideshows from still images.

– Refactored and profiled legacy PHP code to fix critical bugs and apply better coding practices while improving overall app performance.

– Mentored UX intern through design and shipping of her own feature to production environment over ten weeks, addressing a major outstanding client need.