When presented with a complex problem, process, or existing system, I reduce the complexity in order to maximize the team's efficiency and the project effectiveness. I provide guidance, direction and help my colleagues build and produce better technical, holistic solutions.

• I identify deep-rooted, systemic issues within the stack and lead long-term initiatives to address them using a Legacy Code Investigation system I developed and ran a workshop for with my team.

• I proactively identify issues and propose solutions with corresponding context/data, boosting project launch success by 120%

• I make pragmatic design decisions; identifying risks, trade-offs, and alternative solutions to be considered with the Risky Changes Assessment I developed, ensuring that current and future engineers understanding our decisions through clear documentation.

• I thoughtfully decompose functional and technical requirements into clean architectures and designs to support our ambitious product roadmap while maintaining clarity and understanding with non-technical stakeholders.

• I introduce improvements that help the entire company become more productive and ship higher quality work with regular tutorials on how I organize my workspace and how best to use our tools (ex. Notion, DataDog).

• I shape coding methodologies and best practices, documenting them and sharing with the team.

• I've built our mentorship program from the ground up, building out templates and workshopping with our team mentors for continuous improvement of our processes.

• Lead engineering efforts in teaming up with cross-departmental panels to hire Engineering Managers and the VPE

• Update codebase as needed to leverage more modern, performant, accessible code

• Expand the depth of documentation and fine-tuned the on-boarding process

• Collaborate with product and marketing teams, as well as other engineers to shape features and releases, including simplifying & expediting monthly feature flows

• Own the redesign and implementation of a customized Discourse community

• Lead team growth initiatives; hiring 1 VPE, 2 Engineering Managers, 3 Senior BE Engineers, 1 FE Engineer, 4 FS/BE Engineers

• Tech Lead on several projects: (1) integration with Braintree to support a subscription model on the marketplace; increasing user engagement site-wide (2) updated checkout flow to support subscription credit refills within the subscription model on the marketplace

• Established a multi-directional mentoring and pair-programming culture

• Guided the team in update to the codebase to leverage more modern, performant, accessible code

• Expanded the depth of documentation and fine-tuned the on-boarding process; reduced onboarding from 3 weeks to 3 days

• Instituted a technical design document to allow for thorough, structured engineering project scope [find my technical design document template on Github]

• Confidently works with product owners through technical architecture patterns and best practice conventions catered to the scope and scale of a given project to craft a technical plan that's clear, concise, and modular which breaks down a problem, identifies risks, trims scope, and communicates requirements to the rest of the engineering team

• Expertise in debugging / monitoring tooling (DataDog, XDebug, etc.), routinely investigating performance, errors, network issues, etc. and directing the team to ship solutions

• Instigated a buddy system to ramp up new hires with ease and agility; ability and willingness to mentor all team members and pair on problems

• The DE&I Committee aims:

• To cultivate harmony and intrinsic belonging as a part of our company culture.

• To build bridges, compassion, and understanding between all employees, leadership, and our community.

• To celebrate the intersections of our diverse humanity, together.

• To develop an active system of accountability that encompasses and ensures a safe and prosperous environment for all employees and leadership.

• Convene & moderate on a weekly basis to accelerate cross-company efforts to increase inclusivity, accountability, and belonging.

• Initialized productivity and communication tools : Monday and Slack

• Crafted a sustainable DE&I framework to encourage on-going company growth and development

• Coordinate with other Executives on the team on action items and committee initiatives

• Update internal communication and messaging on a weekly basis