Carousell is the leading secondhand goods marketplace in Southeast Asia with >10M MAUs.
• Initiated and led a team of 2 engineers to architect and build a performance-first mobile web experience in 6 months, achieving a 3x faster listing page load that increased organic traffic by 63% and conversion rates by 46%. Wrote about our experience in https://medium.com/carousell-insider/how-we-made-carousells-mobile-web-experience-3x-faster-bbb3be93e006.
• Led and completed the migration to replace Carousell’s existing web app with the new performance-first web app and scaled the team from 2 to 14 engineers.
• Engaged business and product stakeholders to balance between performance, completeness of existing product features, and time to market for the new web experience.
• Established and iterated on onboarding, code review, and code ownership processes for all 14 web engineers at Carousell.
• Mentored and initiated regular 1:1s with new hires and interns on the team.
• Designed and implemented a single sign-on service for a seamless login experience across all 9 of Carousell’s marketplaces.
• Designed and implemented an automated, IFTTT-like rules platform to combat fraud and minimize the impact of bad actors on the marketplace.