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San Francisco, California, Us

Concord, Us

People Leadership- Doubled size of team in one year. - Mentored the team in soft skills such as communication and autonomy, through regular 1:1s and constant feedback. One employee was promoted to a lead role.- Introduced hiring philosophies and practices, which were adopted by other teams across the organizations.- Involved in hiring decisions for leadership roles at all levels and across all engineering teams.Process Leadership- Matured sprint and ticket tracking process. Forecast accuracy increased by 33%. Ad-hoc request completion remained consistent.- Worked cross-team to implement engineering-wide roadmap planning. Organization became more confident in internal timelines, and backend release candidate iteration reduced as a result.Technical Leadership- Drove adoption of collaborative technical design philosophies across teams, leading to marked improvements in project timeline predictability.- Focused and drove team efforts on critical technical issues. In one case, I led the resolution of a complex performance issue in under two weeks, which had been unresolved for over six months.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

People Leadership- Built the Direct Messages team from a skeleton crew.- Led team in co-creating a working agreement.- Negotiated with security team to prioritize and schedule fixes for security concerns.- Led onboarding and training processes for multiple teams.- Worked with other teams to ensure API contracts and project timelines met obligations and exceeded expectations.- Shepherded company-wide interview process standards.- Cofacilitated a leadership and collaboration training program.Technical Leadership- Designed and implemented a hotkey mitigation solution from the ground up.- Worked across teams on multiple successful efforts including large offline dataset migrations, data redaction, and improvements to content and curation.- Designed a large architectural change to Direct Messages storage patterns to eliminate security gaps.- Architected, designed, and implemented onboarding workstreams for Communities - a new, large-scale leveraging the existing social networks in the product.- Designed cross-service and distributed log trace system for complex microservice architectures.Engineering- Implemented negative cache system for automated load shedding.- Executed a large-scale data redaction project in hadoop.- Implemented an experimental sorting algorithm for direct message conversations- Implemented systems for requesting/granting access to communities.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

People Leadership- Drove for partner team to take ownership of our needs as a client.Technical Leadership- Architected a massive scale migration plan for notification systems in Drive, including legal compliance with GDPR.- Drafted technical/architectural designs for multiple features across various function in Drive.- Designed large aspects of a live-updating web framework for Drive.- Worked cross-team on a generic API to make available a specialized web component to a broader collection of teams at the company.

Boulder, Co, Us

People Leadership- Performed all technical interviews for the first ~10 employees to join the company.- Managed contractors in building out features of the product.- Onboarded team members.Technical Leadership- Architected, designed, scoped, and implemented a full prototype of the company's product.- Analyzed and chose the technical stack.- Met with early potential investors as the technical knowledge for the company.- Authored two software patents for the company's product.Engineering- Implemented a live-updating, Directed Acyclic Graph display for the product's visual editor prototype.- Implemented a live-updating, seamless, video player which supported dynamically updating/interactive content.- Implemented the full back-end storage and delivery system v0.

Managed four clients over two years, ranging from content management to travel companies.

People Leadership- Vetted a second engineer to be hired.Technical Leadership- Hired to take over principal engineer responsibilities from the existing CTO.- Designed & architected many feature additions to the product - Dynamic Database offering, in-browser visual interface to all tools, visual representations of logical flows in the web sites.- Contributed to many non-core tasks to the role, such as client relations, product insight/design, roadmapping/task prioritization.Engineering- Implemented a recursive database structure, and translation engine from abstract representations to explicit SQL.- Implemented a visual representation and translation engine for programming concepts within a website (e.g. for loops, recursive structures, hard/soft-link concepts to data).