Chief Technology Officer
Current⢠Scoped, prioritized, built, analyzed, and iterated on engagement-driving product features like challenges, student class stats, virtual badges, onboarding, personalized recommendations, bookmarking, a video library, and class schedule improvements⢠Automated key operational functions like payroll calculations, issue detection, and teacher substitute request management to save the company many hours per month of manual effort⢠Built out Metabase dashboards for internal performance metrics, corporate partnerships, and ad hoc data analysis needs that make both reporting and insights-gathering easier and more reliable⢠Architected a more intuitive, performant, and extensible full-stack web application after gathering requirements through stakeholder interviews and workshops⢠Engineered an extensible Django REST Framework server application with PostgreSQL and AWS S3 data storage ⢠Developed a single page application (SPA) with Next.js/React that resulted in significant page load performance, accessibility, and design improvements⢠Built a headless ecommerce experience that allows us to retain significant control of the user experience using Shopify storefront APIs for checkouts, Shopify admin APIs for product and order management, and Recharge APIs for subscriptions⢠Migrated tens of thousands of customer records and coordinated the cutover from WordPress to a new system with minimal downtime for the business⢠Wrote over 2000 API and unit tests to verify API access control restrictions and detect functionality regressions on our backend⢠Matured engineering processes by establishing source control, CI/CD processes, system monitoring, incident alerting, and dedicated test environments on Heroku, Netlify, & Shopify