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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Designed and delivered mission-critical projects and features, excelling as both a lead and an individual contributor.• Spearheaded a modernization initiative to simplify and consolidate outdated backend services, significantly improving developer productivity and experience.• Designed and led a process to decompose large projects into small, independently deployable units, accelerating delivery and improving team collaboration and output.• Championed a shift towards automated testing as a core part of the development lifecycle, resulting in greater code stability and reduced regressions.• Lead and contributed to key architectural decisions, shaping the technical direction and long-term scalability of projects.• Introduced and integrated continuous integration (CI) pipelines to automate testing, static analysis, and quality checks, streamlining the code review process.• Enhanced the developer experience by revamping local database seeding, migrations, and deployments to align with modern best practices.• Actively engaged in product discussions, story writing, and served as a product owner for multiple technical initiatives.• Ensured code quality and drove consistent technical standards across the development team, enhancing code maintainability and reliability.• Reviewed code comprehensively across the entire stack, fostering a culture of quality and collaboration.

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

I realized my passion for solving customer problems and moved from management back into hands-on coding. Served as engineering lead for the web product while maintaining and improving on several robust and complex codebases. Also served as reporting lead, using Tableau and SQL to gain business insight.

San Diego, Ca, Us

I managed a team of up to three software engineers and a Linux system administrator. Lead regular sprint meetings including scrum, sizing, and retrospective and presented engineering updates at monthly all-hands company meetings.I helped define yearly company goals, initiatives, and roadmap, and worked closely with product and marketing leads to maintain effective communication and collaboration while maintaining a full contributing engineer workload.Managed engineering platform and infrastructure, planning, prioritizing, and assisting with server upgrades and package/security updates.

San Diego, Ca, Us

I planned and built an online classroom interface for allowing teachers and students to participate in private lessons and group classes through their browser using AngularJS and a third party WebRTC service. I transitioned to engineering lead for SaaS teacher account portal and internal admin system and assumed the responsibilities of product manager on the online classroom product and a retooling sales CRM system.I lead the introduction and initial implementation of AngularJS for new feature development throughout the codebase. I built a new internal monitoring system and used it to dramatically improve request performance.I mentored and trained team members, participated heavily in code reviews, and participated in engineer and product manager hiring process.

San Diego, Ca, Us

I collaborated with other engineers on an Agile team to plan, design, and develop robust solutions, including custom components of the internal and external-facing site, a custom CRM system, calendaring system, billing system components, and user accounts.I lead the introduction and migration to jQuery from Scriptaculous. I implemented many third party tools and integrations and helped establish team coding standards, participated in regular code reviews and pair programming.