Scaling out the UJET team! Improving customer service via AI-enabled contact center automation and integrations.

Taking a sabbatical!

Helping build technology for teachers and learners.• Built engineering career ladder, levels, team organization and structure.• Hired multiple staff+ engineers, eng. managers, and directors; leveled up the overall skill and experience level of the team.• Oversaw core engineering, QA, and TPM as well as experimental initiatives including Kiddom AI.• Improved site performance 2×, scaled to 5× user count via a combination of paying down tech debt, rebuilding systems, and hardening processes.• Owned engineering headcount and budget, the largest team in the company.• Helped drive company strategy as a part of the Executive Leadership Team.

Helping children stay curious! Responsible for our engineering, growth, product, design teams.• Established pod structures, OKRs, team objectives, planning processes.• Collaborated with cross-functional VPs, executives on company strategy.• Oversaw all major engineering, product, and design initiatives, including efforts to integrate with broader parent company and products.• Partnered with the People team to reimagine HR processes, leveling systems.

Senior Director of Engineering, running multiple engineering organizations across Affirm's engineering teams.• Led the Finance Engineering organization: core financial systems that served as the foundation for installment loans, integrations and tools to fund loans; teams spread across multiple offices.• Led and built the Consumer Engineering organization: built out the Affirm mobile app, logged in web portal, loan repayments and servicing stack, agent and internal tooling.• Built web & mobile foundational teams focused on improving client-side developer experience and velocity.• Revamped recruiting and interviewing across engineering in close partnership with the Talent team, emphasizing diverse & inclusionary environments.• Worked closely with Corp. Dev. on M&A efforts for engineering talent.• Hired, mentored and grew multiple leads, managers and directors throughout Affirm.• Featured as speaker for meetup keynotes and panel discussions.

Engineering manager across multiple teams throughout Counsyl's engineering organization.• Managed Business Engineering team; built out tools and processes to improve project consistency and deliverability for many internal stakeholders.• Managed Digital Products team; improved patient-facing products' metrics to increase patient accessibility to core Counsyl offerings.• Led recruiting effort across engineering, eng. leadership, and program management.• Established mentorship program; mentored engineers both within and outside my teams.• Helped establish engineering levels and coached career development paths for software engineers.

Engineering manager on Square Dashboard and other product teams, with a focus on building great teams.• Managed Square Dashboard team; built out the primary web platform for Square’s back-office management products, eventually used by most other product teams.• Built overtime functionality into Square Payroll and Timecards.• Built and managed Square Web Foundation team; improved quality and consistency across all of Square’s web properties.• Managed Square Receipts team; rebuilt Square’s digital receipt.• Managed and mentored multiple front-end and web-focused teams.

Senior front-end engineer for Square Dashboard, the merchant application for back-office settings and user analytics.• Led the effort to completely rebuild the merchant site. Moved from a Rails application to a rich web client app with the Ember Javascript app framework, with rich analytics and visualization via D3.js and Crossfilter.• Anchored front-end discipline and team with a focus on rich web applications and interactions.• Assisted adjacent engineering teams on external and internal site architecture and infrastructure.• Implemented site-wide designs and design-focused frameworks.

Front-end engineer for Googleʼs internal customer relationship management tool.• Built and enhanced multiple front-end components on top of Googleʼs Javascript infrastructure.• Major contributor to the 2.0 version of the web application, rewriting the front-end component for 8+ sections, which in aggregate was worked on by 50+ engineers, designers, and product managers.• Helped transition app from pure Javascript to Java-based GWT framework.• Developed a 20% project to store, track and manage Googleʼs sports ladders.

Lead front-end engineer for applications on the Facebook platform.• Rewrote and ported primary quiz application from PHP to Python, with multiple usability enhancements.• Led numerous projects through front-end redesigns, AB-testing and functionality enhancements; grew sharing and page traffic by 400%.• Lead front-end effort on building dating site; coordinated project execution between backend devs, graphic designers and project managers.• Helped revive and build out the Lolapps games platform with UI rewrites and features.• Started front-end engineering team.• Built and enhanced multiple internal tools, including metrics graphs and admin interfaces.

Primary engineer for Factset's proprietary desktop client, rendering custom widgets in a Windows application by defining the user interface from the server.• Worked with MFC and Win32 to create a network-optimized framework.• Implemented numerous UI components with emphasis on usability and modern interface aesthetics.• Coordinated client with server engineers, gathering requirements and feedback to improve API and functionality.• Designed and developed a secure file storage system on client Windows machines with a COM interface, allowing for obfuscated files to be stored locally.• Enhanced custom build system with versioning info and status notifications.• Coordinated UC Berkeley student recruitment effort.