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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, IL, US

• 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.
• 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

Chicago, IL, US

• 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

Chicago, IL, US

• 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

San Francisco, California, US

• 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

Paris, France, FR

• 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

Champaign, IL, US

• 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

Cincinnati, OH, US

• 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

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering