As a Senior Staff Engineer and member of engineering leadership at Lattice, I drive technical strategy and cultural change across our comprehensive Talent suite (Performance, Compensation, Goals, Engagement, Feedback, and Grow) serving thousands of organizations globally.

Strategic Technical Leadership & Cultural Impact:

* 80% deep product engineering / 20% cross-functional leadership - enabling high-impact initiatives across our 100+ person engineering organization

* Recognized culture-changer: Established "Brilliant Basics" mindset focused on maintainability and operational excellence over feature chasing

* Go-to IC community member: Making impact across Brilliant Basics, Localization, Performance, and Developer Experience initiatives

* Re-architected Compensation Cycles in 6 weeks, transforming it from barely functional to high-performance—now serves as organizational reference for balancing UX, technical debt reduction, and business needs

* Established narrow waist API standards that attack legacy technical debt while accelerating development velocity and derisking future refactors

Implemented visibility models and approval chain optimizations that directly improved performance and clarity for large-scale compensation cycles

* Drive strategic technical decisions through rapid POC development and cross-team feasibility assessments

* Shape frontend engineering standards and architectural direction through design reviews and RFC process

* Contribute directly to quarterly technical roadmaps, capacity planning, and multi-quarter architectural initiatives

* Known for bias to action: Quick to respond, quick to help, quick to ship—jumping in to unblock teams and propose solutions

* Mentor multiple engineers across teams, supporting growth and confidence

* Participate in product design reviews and technical design reviews

* Engage with customers during technical escalations

* Champion feature flag hygiene, test coverage, and operational discipline across organization

Contributing to technical strategy and architecture within Shopify's merchant support experience, focusing on the Help Center ecosystem and AI-powered conversational interfaces. Key areas of impact:

* Leading engineering mentorship initiatives to uplevel team capabilities, fostering technical excellence through structured guidance and hands-on coaching.

* Collaborating with Product teams to shape strategic vision and technical roadmap for next-generation merchant support experiences.

* Driving architectural improvements and modernization initiatives as part of the senior technical team, implementing sustainable engineering practices.

* Contributing to the technical direction of LLM-powered chat solutions that enhance merchant self-service capabilities.

* Establishing robust observability frameworks and metrics-driven development practices to improve system reliability.

* Partnering with engineering leadership to develop and implement engineering best practices across teams.

* Led frontend architecture and product engineering initiatives for Shopify's advertising solutions, driving key innovations in merchant advertising capabilities

* Drove platform adoption and merchant retention for Shopify Audiences through strategic product improvements, helping merchants optimize ad performance and reduce customer acquisition costs

* Enhanced and scaled the Shop Cash Offers program, implementing key improvements to user experience and comprehension that drove platform revenue growth

* Provided technical leadership and mentorship as the principal frontend domain expert, establishing best practices and architectural patterns across multiple product teams

* Collaborated cross-functionally with product, design, and data teams to deliver high-impact advertising solutions for Shopify's global merchant base

* Played a key role in Pinterest's innovation team, rapidly prototyping and validating new business opportunities and product initiatives.

* Developed frontend creator tools and studio experiences for Pinterest TV, enabling streamlined content production and live shopping capabilities.

* Drove full-stack implementation of early-stage products from concept to launch, working closely with product and design to validate market opportunities.

* Contributed to strategic product discovery through rapid experimentation and technical feasibility analysis of new platform directions.

* Collaborated in a fast-paced startup environment to identify and build new revenue streams and user engagement features for Pinterest's core platform.

* Led critical turnaround of advertiser access management system, creating new delivery framework and mentoring team members to deliver ahead of revised schedule.

* Collaborated with leadership to restructure project timeline and execution strategy, successfully transforming a behind-schedule initiative into an early delivery.

* Drove continuous improvements to business access tools post-launch, enhancing advertiser workflows and platform security through iterative development.

* Lead cross-functional solutions for alpha-stage initiatives, collaborating across teams to build new monetization capabilities.

* Demonstrated technical leadership by identifying bottlenecks, mentoring team members, and establishing improved development practices to accelerate delivery.