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San Francisco, Us

• Building the Gutenberg block editor for the WordPress iOS and Android apps with React Native. • Improving development velocity and stability via automated testing.• Collaborating in a large-scale, fast-pace, open-source codebase.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Identified and planned long-term investments for products and internal tooling.• Managed and mentored team of engineers, helping them to achieve their best.• Planned and articulated product engineering vision to company leadership.• Shipped a React Native app to replace two existing apps to save the company money and time in future product development by leveraging cross-platform technology.• Contributed code to product and internal tooling by writing JavaScript using React.js, React Native, Redux, Node.js, Backbone.js, and more.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Architected, built, maintained, and scaled applications used by over 650k teachers and 1mm families a month.• Contributed to application source writing JavaScript using React.js, React Native, Redux, Node.js, Backbone.js, and more.• Increased team's sprint velocity by 8% through strategic infrastructure investments.• Continuously researched, presented, and planned investments for our technology stack and infrastructure architecture to efficiently achieve business goals.• Collaborated with designers and product owners to plan, estimate, and delegate product roadmap.• Improved engineering team communication through fostering discussions focused on defining code styles, automating linting, and streamlining the code review process.• Mentored team members to help them succeed on the team and in their careers.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Researched, planned, and user-tested feature additions and changes to the web application.• Created sketches, presentations, and other low-fidelity assets to rapidly communicate/iterate the product vision/trajectory with stakeholders and peers.• Designed visuals of UI components and page layouts using Sketch and Photoshop.• Built features, fixed bugs, and improved performance for the web application writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Designed and developed websites and applications for clients using Ember.js, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, and WordPress.• Increased team's efficiency through creation of internal and OSS tools.• Improved communication by collaboratively defining code styles and best practices for the team.

• Built websites and applications for clients writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, php, and ruby.• Utilized various libraries and frameworks including Ember.js, Backbone.js, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, WordPress.• Collaborated with designers and account managers to understand client goals, design solutions, and ship high-quality websites and applications.

Us

• Self-educated to swiftly transition roles from design to development to support the team and improve company weaknesses.• Designed and developed websites for clients using custom HTML, CSS, php, jQuery, and Flash.• Researched and organized strategy for bringing CMS platforms (e.g. WordPress) to our clients to generate new revenue for the company.