- Direct and mentor a dynamic team of software engineers, emphasizing continuous professional growth through coaching and regular performance evaluations.- Partner with senior leadership, product managers, and designers to craft a roadmap for front-end platform functionality.- Oversee key platform functionalities, including user authentication (Sign-in/Sign-up), design system integration, home page, administration, and shared user experience components.- Prioritize and address feature requests and bugs, ensuring alignment with diverse stakeholder needs.- Spearhead the integration of automated testing tools, fostering best practices and elevating code quality within the team.- Incident Management: Actively participate in live-site rotation as an Incident Manager, promoting a robust live-site culture and swift resolution strategies.- Implement cost-saving measures and enhance operational procedures, optimizing the performance and cost-effectiveness of cloud resources.

- Developed accessible, reusable controls across React, Angular, and Stencil.- Partnered with design team to drive the roadmap for our design system.- Debugged issues with partner teams and assisted them in front-end work.- Improve team's developer experience through tools like chrome extensions for rapid feedback.- Pushed for improved code quality through refactoring, unit tests, end-to-end tests, and visual regression tests.- Participated in live-site on-call DRI rotation.

- Rapidly developed and optimized front-end features for Coder using ReactJS and Next.js.- Engineered full-stack solutions with Golang, notably integrating Next.js routing.- Drove the prototyping of enhanced front-end functionalities for Coder's admin UI.- Refactored front-end codebase while bolstering test coverage.- Participated in customer calls and troubleshooting of local Kubernetes issues.

Founded a startup focused on developer tools:- Built Revery: a cross-platform, React-inspired UI framework for developing desktop applications.- Built Onivim: a modal code editor, powered by Revery, bringing together the best of Vi and VSCode.In addition, I took on several other projects, including:- Brains vs Asteroids: an educational game, powered by React-Native.- A React-style reconciler for 3-D graphics, for both BabylonJS and ThreeJS.- A networking stack for browser-based multiplayer games, built on WebRTC peer-to-peer data connections.

Customer Care Intelligence - Business AI- Worked directly with customers to integrate Microsoft Bot Framework into their websites.- Architected and implemented back-channels across the stack to enable custom bot functionality.- Partnered with internal and external designers to craft a cohesive customer experience.- Developed custom React and VueJS components for the management portal.

GigJam / Ambient Computing- Architected a migration to ReactJS from KnockoutJS, educating the team.- Implemented several developer experience improvements, including hot-reloading and incremental builds.- Built infrastructure to support shipping GigJam on iOS, including auto-update functionality and managing the iOS app store submission process.- Implemented tooling to support code-signing on all platforms.

- Managed the team that shipped PowerApps on iOS and Android devices (PowerApps Player).- Coached, mentored, and fostered a positive working environment for the team.- Developed infrastructure for automating tests on devices as part of our continuous integration pipeline.

- Prototyped the initial version of PowerApps on iOS, using Cordova.- Architected a platform abstraction layer to expand the codebase to support multiple devices.- Migrated the codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript, focusing on educating developers and seamless integration with our build tools.

- Leveraged automation system to develop automated test programs in C#.- Investigated failures in the automation system and logged bugs based on failures.- Exercised profiling tools such as Office Profiler to identify performance bottlenecks in feature related areas.- Utilized debugging tools to pinpoint software failures.- Authored test plan and executed manual test passes.- Identified key integration areas with other features, and ensured coverage between these areas.- Actively influenced the design of automation library code.