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- Advising on API design.- Refining OpenAPI-based internal API developer experience.

Diverse and growing portfolio, including: Clayton Farms, Daydrink, Shaka, and Stratafolio.

Including:- Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go @ Go Time- Revolutionizing the Developer Experience - Simpler Security through Smarter APIs @ That Tech Pod- Maintaining an Opinionated Engineering Culture at Heroku @ Convergence.fm- Flavor & Familiarity: the Two Sides of Style Guides & Company-Wide Process @API Intersection- Why Writing Matters for Engineers @ Code[ish]- Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library @ Changelog

Including:- State of Open Source Maintainers Panel @ Upstream- API by Design @ ArrrrCamp- Maintain Less, Mentor More: Community Building Techniques from Open Source @ Aloha Ruby, Heroku Waza, Bacon, Scottish Ruby- API: Assumptions Probably Incorrect @ Golden Gate Ruby- fog: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud @ Lone Star Ruby, Mountain West Ruby, Strange Loop- User Experience for Library Designers @ Ruby Kaigi

Partnered with Office of the CTO to holistically support and evolve key processes and business-essential technology architecture practices. Championed organizational design solutions at the heart of transforming Heroku’s engineering decision-making methods. Acted as tireless advocate for developers while improving internal communities. Led conferences, guilds, offsites, unconferences, and lightning talks, among others. - Bolstered support, enablement, and cohesion among senior-most individual contributors by authoring long-term strategy that addressed support gaps and enhanced outcomes. - Significantly improved group decision-making capabilities by building decision record enablement solution based on W3 RFC process; efforts resolved struggles with cross-organizational decision-making within Heroku. - Boosted engagement among in-person and remote staff by orchestrating in-person/virtual events, ongoing practices, and thought leadership exercises; resulted in frequent ratings as best among large events and programming. - Utilized technical expertise and leadership abilities to design, implement, and release Heroku enhancements; delivered internal CLI style guide, API v3, API style guide and Webhooks. - Promoted broader community discussion by writing Success from Anywhere (SFA) thought leadership deliverables.- Empowered experiential learning methodologies by devising novel After Action Review (AAR) process.- Connected individual contributors while directing collective sensemaking practices within Influence Circles.

Comprehensively supported developers’ utilization of fog and excon Ruby open-source libraries through holistic community outreach. Represented corporate interests as public speaker. Improved documentation/development practices.- Greatly improved adoption and engagement with open-source projects to include hundreds of contributors and downloads in the hundreds of millions; raised awareness via blogging, better documentation, and conference presence. - Built successful libraries to serve development/community needs, proactively addressing problematic gaps in the open source ecosystem.

Recognized as first employee and sole engineer during startup phase of product development. - Designed and implemented modular systems to support rapid iteration toward product market fit.