• Design and develop responsive, high-performance web components and pages using TypeScript and Next.js framework, implementing complex UI/UX designs while ensuring cross-browser compatibility and accessibility standards

• Architect and maintain headless CMS integration solutions using Sanity, creating sophisticated content schemas and developing reusable components and modules that enable marketing team members to efficiently manage and publish website content.

• Build a comprehensive UI component library in Storybook to ensure consistent development practices and maintainable code.

• Implement and optimize SEO strategies through technical solutions, including metadata management, semantic HTML structure, performance optimization, and ensuring compliance with current web standards and best practices

• Collaborate with design/creative and marketing stakeholders to translate business requirements and visual designs into scalable, production-ready frontend solutions using modern web technologies including TailwindCSS for sophisticated styling systems

• Lead technical maintenance and enhancement initiatives, including regular package updates, security patches, and performance optimization of the marketing website, blog, and docs

• Participate in on-call rotation duties every 3-4 weeks, providing critical frontend support and implementing rapid solutions for time-sensitive issues across web properties

• Execute A/B testing and analytics integration to measure and optimize user engagement and conversion metrics, working closely with marketing team to implement data-driven improvements

• Contribute to continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and development workflows, ensuring code quality through comprehensive testing and peer review processes

• Frontend engineer on the Embeddings and Search Team

• Developed and deployed demos, internal tooling, and annotation efforts

• Contributed to the team through rapid prototyping, efficient development practices and design choices, and quick learning ability, such as picking up NextJS, Tailwind and Typescript on the job

• Promoted to full-time Member of Technical Staff within four months

As the founder and community organizer at TechTank (a 100% volunteer-run organization), my mission is to empower early-career developers and tech enthusiasts in Toronto. I'm passionate about creating opportunities for growth, learning, and networking, and to foster a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive tech community in Toronto.

Key Responsibilities:

• Program Development: Initiate and manage support programs for early-career developers, including 'Guppy Talks' virtual panel discussions and a job-search accountability buddy program.

• Event Organization: Curate a variety of events including in-person networking events, social meetups, tech workshops, online webinars, career-prep sessions, and inclusive spaces for women and non-binary folks in tech.

• Team Management: Guide a core team of volunteer admins in strategic planning and support activities for TechTank, aligning our initiatives with community needs.

• Community Partnerships: Collaborate with various tech hubs in Toronto to enhance community resources and opportunities, contributing to the growth of TechTank.

• Public Relations: Lead promotional efforts on platforms like LinkedIn, Meetup, and Slack, creating content that has effectively tripled event attendance, thereby significantly expanding our community reach and engagement.

• Worked in a cross-functional team to create new pages as well as update existing code and pages on the corporate site using JavaScript, SCSS, Jenkins, React and PHP

• Proactively improved the overall handoff and QA processes for better work efficiency and product quality

• Worked closely with the Design team to upgrade the digital experience and solve design problems together

Taught music through online platforms during COVID-19 restrictions (Zoom, creating YouTube videos and using Music EdTech), reaching a total student body of 700+ students in Regent Park, Jane and Finch, and other satellite locations. Worked with K-12 students in a classroom-setting, community school and developed creative resources to meet student interests and learning needs, collaborating with 50+ staff and faculty members