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Seattle, Wa, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

Connect UI team lead, responsible for provisioning and observability for fully managed connectors and custom compute. My team maintains the UI for over 80 external integrations (Kafka connectors) into Confluent’s Kafka offering, ensuring seamless integrations for a wide range of external systems.- Accelerated Development Efficiency: Reduced the effort for a major connector development by two-thirds by architecting a scalable solution that accelerates future connector onboarding and increases overall development velocity.- Boosted Enterprise Conversion: Led a greenfield initiative to increase adoption of private link egress connections, resulting in a 60% increase in provisioning conversion for enterprise customers using dedicated clusters.- Enhanced Testing Framework: Developed a framework that reduced unit test development time by 75%, improving overall development speed by 15%.- Unified Telemetry Pipelines: Led the initiative to combine frontend and backend telemetry pipelines, aligning multiple teams across engineering, data science, and product to improve end-to-end connector metrics.- Cross-Functional Leadership: Regularly collaborated with cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and key stakeholders to ensure strategic goal alignment and timely project delivery across the organization.Key Technologies: React, TypeScript, Metrics Driven Development, Team Leadership, Cross-Team Collaboration

Roseville, Ca, Us

Goodleap, a leading provider of financing for green energy projects, had grown into a multi-billion-dollar company, financing hundreds of millions in green energy loans by the time I transitioned into a management role. As a technical leader, I focused on scaling the company’s core products and driving cross-functional collaboration to support its mission of sustainable energy financing.- Architected Unified Frontend: Ideated, proposed, and architected a unified frontend client that consolidated multiple portals into one, dramatically increasing development velocity and enhancing the user experience for borrowers, lenders, and partners.- Expanded Team Capacity: Managed and mentored three engineering leads who reported directly to me, each leading agile teams across web, mobile, and backend development, significantly expanding the organization's delivery capabilities.- Strategic Alignment: Fostered cross-team collaboration between engineering, product, sales, and executive teams to ensure cohesive execution of key product initiatives.- Scaled Engineering Operations: Defined team structures, onboarding processes, and coding standards that scaled efficiently as the company grew.- Talent Development: Led the hiring and development of a dozen engineers, guiding them into high-impact roles as the product and company scaled.Key Technologies: React, Node.js, AWS, GraphQL, Leadership, Management, Team Building

Roseville, Ca, Us

As the 4th engineering hire, I played a critical role in building the core platform that matched lenders with solar panel buyers. Developed key systems and set foundational standards for the frontend development that supported the company’s rapid growth.- Developed Core Systems: Built frontend systems for B2C loan origination and document uploads, and developed a B2B portal for solar sales companies to manage loan pipelines and statuses.- Created Internal Tools: Developed internal tools for underwriters and business development, including automated underwriting systems and loan pipeline management.- Improved Development Processes: Introduced CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and SCRUM methodologies, significantly enhancing development velocity and consistency.- Set Foundational Standards: Established the team's initial code quality standards and development practices, laying the groundwork for future scaling.Key Technologies: React, Node.js, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, CI/CD, Agile/SCRUM

Sacramento, California, Us

In a fast-paced startup environment, I took on broad responsibilities and quickly grew into a leadership role. I led technical solutions and guided a small team to deliver two key products: a B2C education platform that matched users to skincare products, and a continued education site for dermatology practitioners to earn CME credits through courses and quizzes.- Full-Stack Development: Developed features using React, Node.js, GraphQL, and MongoDB, collaborating with dermatologists and marketing teams to create tech-driven solutions for wellness and education.- Innovated Frontend Performance: Created an isomorphic frontend solution to optimize time-to-paint for users in low-bandwidth regions like rural India and Asia.- Cost Optimization: Reduced operating costs by 85% through a migration from monolithic APIs on EC2 to a fully serverless architecture.- Team Leadership: Led a small team, maintaining operational excellence by swiftly resolving production issues and ensuring uninterrupted service.Key Technologies: React, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, SQL, AWS, Serverless Architecture

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