Full stack software engineer with a passion for making the web a beautiful place. With experience in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React and a background in molecular biology, I discovered web development through my experience with genetic data analysis.
Frontend engineering lead on the cross-functional team that built and continues to maintain a new Online Cancel application for digital subscribers, for which I received the Publisher’s Award
Fullstack lead on the Offboarding project, which involves scoping, building, and maintaining a Google Cloud service to send recapture emails to recently canceled subscribers
Founding member and leader on the Community Engagement pillar of the Javascript CoP, a new community of practice organization that will promote NYT engineering power and scope both internally and externally
Organizing tech talks, onboarding new hires, and fostering an open networking environment in a leadership role on the Internal Communications pillar of Women in Tech
Created a universal Technical Design Document Template, which is the new standard for planning technical projects on the Retention engineering team
Built an A/B test and redesign of the Manage Billing application within the Payflow, in collaboration with the Churn Reduction team of Growth. This project lead to a 14% lift in reactivation of recently lapsed subscriptions
Was the primary point of contact for Refinery29's user-facing React/Redux web application, refinery29.com.
Wrote consumer-facing code for the website of Refinery29, impacting the experience of millions of users worldwide.
Worked with members from the Product team to improve ad visibility, clickthrough rates, and customer loyalty by using engineering best practices and technologies.
Assisted in closing out and shipping a large-scale site redesign of the entire www.refinery29.com website, taking in input from UX/UI designers and Product teams.
Implemented a “trending videos” module that touched every part of the stack, which drove higher click-through rates on Refinery29 video/series products.