This role has been a passion for me in so many ways, and it’s incredible to watch the community around it grow. I’ve been truly full-stack from app development (React Native) to the backend (Node/Postgres) to DevOps (Terraform/AWS) and scaled the system from 300 total users in late 2020 to well over 12k active users today. - App development in React Native- Backend has over 85% unit test coverage and is run with node, graphql, Postgres, TimescaleDB, Redis.- Website is driven by NextJS- Devops: 100% IaC with terraform on AWS- Observability, alterting, & BI with Grafana, Elastic APM, Superset, synthetic tests, and more. - CICD automation with GitHub actions

Nearly doubled the engineering org in 12 months. I'm hands-on with the architecture and overall technical direction of the company and jump into the code when necessary. Currently growing engineering leaders and directing focus on how we can work more effectively and address tech debt along the way. Overall, my goal is to give engineers the ownership they need to get things done.

Engineering lead, mentor, people manager, frontend systems architect, full-stack engineer.* Led large-scale company transitions, such as moving to a modern responsive system for mobile, desktop, & app, and the transition from AngularJS to React.* Designed an automated system to creates disposable production-like test environments in AWS.* Led teams of 5 - 10 engineers, balancing people management tasks with development work.* Integrate tech debt initiatives with the product feature roadmap.* Mentored engineers and helped them plan their career growth.* Organized & hosted company hackathons and engineering all-hands.Technologies: React, AngularJS, JavaScript, HTML, SCSS, Python, Django, NodeJS, AWS

I was the Frontend technical lead for the team behind the Nest e-commerce store. The system is built on Ruby on Rails with EmberJS and interacts with many API calls to our Hybris backend system.

* Led the Web Development team for Analytics, Search, Platform and Mobile.* Co-Architected an early component-based JavaScript architecture. * Was a key player in driving many significant product launches, such as One-click invite, Career Explorer, InApps Platform, Drupal i18n, and more. * Created five award-winning hack day projects: LinkedIn Spotlight, SuperNudge, Easier Profile Skills, The User-Centered Homepage, and svnUI* Designed and built the enterprise translation suite for the Drupal platform.Other: * Constructed a talking, beer-drinking, office robot called Ganzbot. * Halloween costume winner three years in a row. * Commissioner of office pranks and other shenanigans.

* Developed and taught the company-wide JavaScript standards.* Built global Web Development solutions based on best practices.* Traveled to India to provide one-week training courses on JavaScript and best-practices.* Created strategies that support accessibility through progressive enhancement.* Led regular workshops and training programs to teach the latest JavaScript solutions.* Reviewed code to ensure standards and to protect against cross-site scripting (XSS) and other potential security holes.

* Built and maintain the Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox in JavaScript.* Ported the core toolbar codebase to an XPCOM object to improve performance.* Developed code that parsed a binary feeds to build dynamic toolbars.* Co-organized the 2006 International Y! Frontend Summit (a Web Development conference).* Lead regular company-wide workshops on advanced JavaScript debugging.* Developed code commenting and documentation standards that helped shape what YUIDoc became.* Wrote a PHP template management system that supported themes and doubled developer productivity.

* Created HTML, JavaScript, CSS and XSLT for the production site. * Built a Java server application (Real Time Compiler) to greatly improve development efficiency and collaboration. * Key role in creation and maintenance of highly visible JavaScript and CSS on eBay’s front page and throughout the site. * Documented, created, and presented complex standards and processes to improve cross-functional development cycles. * Managed projects efficiently to ensure on time delivery for over 100 launches of features every quarter. * Learned about all kinds of buzzwords and processes.

I started working for this CMS company as the lead Web Developer for their professional services team. Later I moved to the engineering group and assisted with converting the system from Tango to a Java/Struts architecture.Sadly, the company went out of business in mid 2001 and I was held on as one of the final 10 employees tasked with closing the accounts and shutting down the company.