• Acted as technical lead for a core Ads Manager product area, guiding 5–7 engineers through design, implementation, and delivery of complex, high-traffic features.
• Led architectural decision-making across teams by reviewing technical designs, facilitating alignment, and introducing solutions that balanced scalability, maintainability, and delivery velocity.
• Delivered multiple end-to-end advertiser-facing initiatives spanning React-based frontend architecture, backend API design (Python/Java), relational data modeling (MySQL), and integration testing (Cypress).
• Drove improvements to Ads Manager usability by modernizing frontend patterns, reducing UI complexity, and establishing shared documentation and standards adopted across teams.
• Designed scalable data models and APIs for evolving product requirements, including introducing many-to-many relational patterns in high-traffic systems.
• Built and evolved shared web platform functionality used across multiple deployed applications and data sources.
• Led experimentation efforts, including A/B test design, execution, and analysis to inform product decisions.
• Mentored engineers through onboarding, design and code reviews, and formal mentorship programs; contributed to hiring and team-level technical standards.
• Improved team operations by supporting on-call process design, roadmap planning, and large-scale backend refactors.