• I'm a software engineer at Justworks on the Benefits Platform team, a 0 -> 1 venture of Justworks.
Experience
2023 — Now
New York, New York, United States
• We did it! 🎉 (and we're still doing it)
• Tech Lead for International Benefits, leading a mission-driven pod of product engineers focused on turning Justworks’ international benefits offering into a strategic advantage for the Employer of Record (EOR) product.
• Previously led initiatives to automate U.S. open market health insurance operations and enable 401(k) benefits and payroll API integrations.
2023 — Now
New York, New York, United States
• Building a payroll agnostic benefits administration platform (Crimson Sage), a 0 -> 1 venture of Justworks.
2023 — 2023
2023 — 2023
New York, New York, United States
• Communications Infrastructure and Subscriber Experience squads
• Operating across squads to support Spanish-language internationalization of community solar apps including the transactional product email micro service and customer signup funnels.
• Creating an end-to-end type-safe "templates-as-code" micro service with Remix, GraphQL and integrating with Customer.io to enable squads to fully own their relevant domain's product emails.
• Using XState, React, and GraphQL to create an extensible and flexible customer signup funnel capable of evolving and scaling with changing business needs, diverse product goals, and complex legal and market requirements.
• Developing in Ruby on Rails in support of migrating services out of a legacy monolith into separate micro services.
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
New York, New York, United States
• Technical lead of Growth squad working to deliver a scalable approach to headless content management to support Arcadia's objective of creating a singular and cohesive integrated brand after multiple company acquisitions.
• Pioneering the migration of multiple internal frontend applications from custom AWS EKS deployments to serverless Netlify deployments, enabling greater squad ownership and decreasing deployment times by 85%.
• Helping Arcadia attract qualified leads for our B2C (Community Solar) and B2B (Arc API Platform) products with our marketing website, built with React/Next.js, headless CMS Prismic, and TypeScript.
• Using Segment Analytics to implement page and event-tracking, allowing data analysts and marketing to partner together and create self-service split and A/B tests.
• Collaborating across engineering squads (Growth, Community Solar, Frontend Infrastructure) to carry out a high-priority redesign of an internal admin dashboard, as part of a company-wide user account/product data model initiative.
• Mentored newly hired engineer through their 30/60/90 onboarding process and regularly through one-on-one code reviews and walkthroughs.
2022 — 2022
2022 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
• Engineer on a small tight-knit team, focusing on growing Structy to be a market-leading brand in helping engineers learn foundational data structures, algorithms, and interviewing techniques.
• Implementing new frontend React components for Structy's marketing homepage to help drive conversion of potential customers through testimonials and company logos.
• Creating a full-stack integration with Discord to give Structy's 15k+ monthly active users a communal space to chat, discuss, and meme.
• Profiling performance bottlenecks in the client-side application that were causing frame rate drops and other visual inconsistencies and resolving them through memoization, deduplication logic, and better adherence to idiomatic React patterns.
Education
Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York
Bachelor's Degree
The City College of New York
Bachelor of Arts - BA
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)