▪Managed a total of 8 developers across two teams, with reports located in Chicago, the Eastern and Pacific time zones, and Mexico City▪Led the Product Catalog team in adding 100+ new categories to the product taxonomy, including deprecating 2 legacy categories and migrating all existing listings for those categories without any seller intervention required. Empowered Senior Engineers to lead the migration and coordinate with stakeholders.▪Managed the Paid Advertising team through the development of a more durable and privacy conscious conversion attribution pipeline to implement Google’s Enhanced Conversions. ▪Partnered with our internal advertising team to identify new data to be added to our product feeds, enabling more granularity in our advertising campaigns▪Interviewed and made hiring decisions on over 50 Software Engineer and Manager candidates

Tech Lead - SEO and Product Shopping▪ Defined the technical direction of a buyer growth focused team, and consulted with the team’s manager to ensure team and company goals were aligned▪Created a custom wrapper around our GraphQL integration to prevent inadvertent server side rendering, eliminating a large risk around increased page load times▪Taught an engineering apprentice as their primary mentor during a 6-month program, culminating with their promotion to the engineering team

▪ Organized and led department wide biweekly “Engineering Show & Tell” learning sessions to share recent work and knowledge across teams▪ Added a cache in front of page configurations for “Reverb Sites”, a website builder used by sellers to manage their own stores. This resulted in an over 90% cache hit rate, and faster page load speed for all shops.▪ Built a search driven listing creation flow using React and Elasticsearch, replacing a legacy Rails view and increasing listing matches to our known product catalog▪ Implemented the first version of a GraphQL API for the web application

▪ Developed new product features and created internal utilities using Django▪Developed an automated end to end test suite to cover employer benefits selection and enrollment▪Refactored existing test coverage to reduce execution time of the affected tests by ~25%▪ Quickly and efficiently responded to and resolved issues escalated to engineering from throughout the organization

▪ Integrated with client Program Management Office in order to manage project metrics for a systems transformation initiative made up of 500+ developers and testers.▪ Assisted work force management team in determining developer allocations amongst projects.▪ Supported development and drafted functional requirements of a Microsoft Access database designed to track software developer and tester project allocations

▪ Created Chrome extension to help staff track the number of lab gowns sent to and received from laundry service▪ Trained all laboratory users on safety and equipment use▪ Designed a system to accommodate an increase in demand of cooling water to laboratory equipment

▪ Led Kaizen events to analyze machine processing and determine potential actions to reduce manufacturing time▪ Interacted with union members to collect accurate data and to gain additional insight▪ Applied time – motion studies and video recordings to calculate resource requirements for a lean flow line