I co-founded Thrilling, a two-sided online marketplace for vintage apparel and home goods. As the technical co-founder, I personally built the foundational website and apps, allowing us to prototype, launch, and scale the business from nothing to over $1 million in ARR.— Scaled our tech stack to support 1800+ independent secondhand vendors that utilized our tools to upload 300k+ unique items sold on our marketplace visited by millions of people.— Built out a team of 35+ outstanding employees with inclusive and diverse backgrounds, including a 12-person product & tech team that I directly managed.— $10 million dollars raised in pre-seed, seed, and series A funding by investors including Prelude Ventures, Elemental Excelerator, Defy, Urban US, Phoenix Rising, Closed Loop, and Congruent Ventures.— Crafted strategy and rolled out impactful machine learning-powered solutions for image manipulation, tagging, pricing algorithms, and AI copywriting, which reduced costs and increased revenue.

I defined the product scope and strategy, then built the initial web application using a modern javascript application stack. The product included innovative interactive data visualizations, powered by d3.js, providing developers unprecedented insight into their build processes.

I started as the head of frontend development then transitioned to managing the entire tech team, consisting of on-site and offshore frontend, backend, full stack, and QA team members; handled all technical needs of a rapidly growing startup selling physical goods to both B2B & B2C customers. This included ecom, ERP, sales management, and middleware systems to make it all work.— Led the team to successfully replatform from an aging system that was inhibiting growth to a modern, full-featured ecom solution.— Identified the need to transition from static markup to fully accessible templates that could be administered by our internal clients, freeing up their creativity and my developer's time. I secured stakeholder buy-in (design & marketing) and led the tech team to implement and execute.

I developed modules and features in close collaboration with design and product teams, used across multiple editorial and ecommerce sites built upon Thrillist’s proprietary web application platform. As a senior member of the team I advocated a high standard of code quality and maintainability through active involvement in code reviews, and was also tasked with deploying code to production systems.— Led a special projects team of developers tasked with originating ideas around strategic company objectives and developing them into production-ready solutions.— Designed, prototyped, and implemented internal curation tools, providing editorial and merchandising teams granular control over content placement through an intuitive interface.— Built the corporate identity site (http://thrillistmediagroup.com) making use of CSS animation and transitions.

I performed an overhaul on Intuit.com – an Alexa US Top 100 website - as well as Intuit's 50 other most-frequented pages, concentrating on performance, accessibility, frontend best practices, and optimizing for use on mobile devices.— Achieved a 50% reduction in page load times by refactoring HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, driving a marked jump in conversions in key growth areas.— Introduced an adaptive, mobile-optimized experience for key new pages and helped align the production life cycle around mobile.— Led tech talks for the marketing and development groups, evangelizing the cause of performance and frontend best practices.— Audited and refactored Intuit’s top 50 pages to ensure compliance with accessibility best practices, providing a superb experience for users on all devices.