Owned the greenfield frontend product and team from pre-alpha through public release.

Product Engineering

• Designed and developed a configuration-driven multi-step form library enabling

the creation and management of complex legal workflows via a CMS

• Partnered with design to define, build, and migrate to an official Opto design

system, speeding up feature delivery by a factor of 4

• Optimized performance through both user experience hacks and true API and database optimizations, minimizing the number of performance-related bug reports and speeding up network calls by up to 94%

Platform Engineering

• Established and maintained third-party integrations; streamlining developer
experience around feature flags, analytics, automated QA, environment variables, etc.

• Built an API testing framework that unified testing technologies across TypeScript, Java, and Python codebases

Leadership

• Architected a skills-based hiring process and made final hiring decisions, efficiently scaling the team from 1 to 7 engineers

• Provided mentorship and coaching in both hard- and soft-skills to teammates of all levels of seniority across the engineering organization

• Drove the organization as a whole to identify and adopt an intentional culture based on growth, transparency, and trust

Lead a team of instructors with a focus on upskilling both their technical and instructional aptitudes while empowering them within the vagaries that comes with contracted curriculum development and instruction.

• Acted as PM and/or Technical Lead for internal projects building out tools to automate and streamline internal processes

• Worked with the LMS team to improve existing features and develop new features

• Maintained multiple internal developer tools

• Spearheaded a curricula transformation involving a five-phase redesign to establish mature and modular content

• Incepted and formalized policies emphasizing instructor development and well-being

• Designed curriculum and resources for non-technical personnel and clients to explain the value provided by my team

• Worked to formalize a pipeline and curriculum that upskills recent bootcamp grads beyond entry-level positions with a focus on production-level applications using modern tooling and microservice chassis

Lead global enterprises in making digital transformations through the adoption of modern engineering practices and the up-skilling and re-skilling of their existing workforce in classroom and controlled lab environments.

• Continued with all of the activities from Associate Enterprise Instructor below

• Led classroom delivery and curriculum development efforts within the team of instructors

• Developed curricular solutions that match the needs of our Enterprise clients