● Led a strong three-person team building the frontend of Minted’s responsive product-catalog and browse app. Increased the number of items shown by 5x with no performance degradation, brought the user-affecting Javascript error rate down to 0 from 3%, and drove a 6% increase in sales conversion. Inspired best practices by mentoring junior engineers to motivate and ensure high quality. Proactively reviewed UX and PM requirements early to remove blockers, and represented the team to present the project to the Senior Executive team. See: minted.com/holiday-photo-cards● Initiated and currently driving the React 16 upgrade across five different teams and 33 different apps. ● Built a highly cacheable responsive header app that decreased the server CPU usage by 95% to replace and pay off the technical debt of Minted’s legacy header app. Integrated the new app with our legacy Python and PHP platforms. See: app-renderer.minted.com/render/header● Led the technical planning, sizing, and prioritization for a complex sub-branding header project. Acted as the technical lead and program manager to align various teams, communicate timelines, and mentor the team all while coding a significant part of the project. See: app-renderer.minted.com/render/header?lifestyle=wedding● Recruited and led a team that won the Best Design Hackathon award for Minted’s first single page app that seamlessly integrated our product catalog and product details page into one app.● Led a CEO initiated project, the Minted 50 app, with a tight two-day turnaround time. The page showcased 50 design projects by 50 independent artists in as many days. Delivered an on time product that met the strong quality needs of a high visibility page through iterative development that required a tight feedback loop between the engineering, brand, and product teams. See: minted.com/50

**Digital Magazines | example: yahoo.com/food, yahoo.com/tech, yahoo.com/travel**Uses Node.js, React, and Fluxible to support Digital Magazines, a platform used by various topic-based sites at Yahoo for a mosaic content-based interface consisting of tiles that showcase articles, slideshows, and videos:● Lead developer for the mobile-web redesign of Digital Magazines: reviewed design decisions, communicated with product managers, decided technical direction for the project, and built features to specs● Advocated for support from product managers from several teams and built a single “Global Share Modal” by refactoring and consolidating many share features across teams into one reusable and flexible component● Initiated design-QA sessions with designers to get immediate feedback for pixel-perfect quality● Built “next slideshow” React component that resulted in a 45% click through rate. Redesigned article pages to implement A/B testing for social share buttons that increased sharing by up to 25%● Integrated Twitter widgets by whitelisting the necessary HTML tags in the backend using jsoup, a Java library, to enable Yahoo editors to embed Tweets and timelines into article pages● Upgraded complex server-side and client-side routing for legacy content article tiles to be compatible to open inline● Frequently offer help to both junior and senior teammates, provide code reviews to teammates using Github pull requests, regularly writes unit and functional tests to protect against regressions, and always leaves code better than it was found● Represented Yahoo by speaking at Mongolian Youth Leadership Program Silicon Valley 2015 conference**Premium Yahoo! News | example: news.yahoo.com/katiecouric**● Developed several components to create elite, high-maintenance pages for acclaimed Yahoo! correspondents, ie. Katie Couric● Awarded “Lightning Speed” recognition for implementing A/B testing for “Hat Trick” recommendation module

● Programmed analytics platform using Python and MySQL so that multiple departments could analyze and forecast trends according to externally collected Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) data. ● Developed a Python module that performed data scrubbing on internal Eventbrite user-created location data to create consistency primarily for MSA extraction and other analytics.

● Work independently to create a healthcare application that stores patient medical records. Collaborate with the executives to expand and improve the start-up company’s product.● Initially developed the application with Grails, an object relational mapping framework, then transitioned into programming the back-end with MySQL and PHP and the front-end with JavaScript and HTML5.