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New York, Ny, Us

Frontend technical lead overseeing key projects with diverse opportunities, risks, and stakeholders, including a ground-up revamp of Datadog's second most visited revenue-driving page and the development of novel capabilities to explore emerging opportunities.Collaborated closely with Product and Design teams to establish shared visions for projects that are both technically grounded and opportunistic. Maintained effective communication and alignment between teams throughout the project lifecycles, ensuring a seamless and collaborative approach to development.Spearheaded and delivered successful projects that have significantly contributed to the company's growth and provided the foundation for subsequent efforts. These projects have served as benchmarks and models for other initiatives within the company.Maintained continuous communication with stakeholders during the implementation, release, and post-launch phases, ensuring their requirements and feedback were effectively integrated. This proactive approach was crucial for project success and stakeholder relationships.

Westport, Connecticut, Us

Refactored and generalized content rendering and data visualization React components to enhanced reusability across Bridgewater's suite of research applications.Drove the adoption of new frontend development standards, from definition to ratification, after conducting a thorough assessment of the codebase and regression history.

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead frontend maintainer for the Jaeger distributed tracing platform, a graduated Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. This included responsibility for the Jaeger UI, where I undertook the following key tasks:• Improved browser performance and responsiveness for the Jaeger UI• Drove feature development based on user interviews, from ideation user education• Acted as an ambassador for Jaeger by speaking at conferences and engaging with the communityServed as a maintainer for the OpenTracing vendor-neutral API and data model specification, an archived CNCF incubated project.Co-created a novel application for root-cause analysis and outage mitigation. It compared individual (failing) traces against an aggregation of exemplar traces, facilitating root-cause analysis and mitigation of system failures.Developed a highly flexible React node-link-diagram component, called Plexus, using Graphviz (in the browser). Plexus allowed for the generation of layouts and rendering of graphs using combinations of HTML and SVG elements.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Leading a team of five developers tasked with creating a foundational, next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for a Salesforce-like platform using Node.js / Express on the server and React / Redux / PostCSS on the front-endCreated a Selenium / WebdriverIO based UI test framework which is being adopted by the organization as a whole to test the existing, first-generation IDE – The test framework features a novel architecture which significantly increases maintainability.

Lead full stack web developer using Python with Flask on the back-end and React, Redux, PostCSS and vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript on the front-end to create both a variety of internal UI components for use throughout the site and to implement concrete website features ranging from data-visualizations to single-page UIs for creating and maintaining complex query and filter compositionsI’ve also used Go, SQL, PLpgSQL, shell scripting and OAuth delegated credentials to interface with internal, sharded databse systems, other internal services and third parties to implmement and automate ETL processes and data exports

Extensive use of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and the Django templating language to create and maintain site-wide features including: membership control center, user / group registration workflow, user / group search, among othersLead JavaScript developer responsible for establishing and maintaining site-wide JavaScript standards and creating foundational components used in the develop- ment of site-wide features

New York, Ny, Us

Lead developer of a Flash / ActionScript based framework which is used by all advertising agencies creating closed-loop marketing campaigns for two of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world. Lead the creation of documentation, tutorials and example projects delivered with the framework.Development of a multi-touch, video-rich Flash kiosk application detailing product info for a national convention.Developed numerous Flash components for in-house Flash component library and ActionScript framework. Training and education of junior developers on use of in-house libraries and general development best practices.

• Expert Flash / ActionScript 3 development• Object Oriented design principles and patterns• Information design and data visualization• .Net with C# for WCF RESTful web services• .Net with C# for Silverlight• Selected client list: McGraw Hill, People Magazine, Borders, Saturn, Casio, Pfizer, Adult Swim

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Design and development of Flash based multimedia content to accompany editorial• Development of Flash-based dynamic stock charts• Produced online video tutorials for technical analysis of stocks

• Lead developer for an online first-person fighting game• Object Oriented ActionScript 2.0 architecture design and development

• Designed and developed executive level presentations and website prototypes in Adobe Flash• Installation and testing of photo-fulfillment system in Epcot theme park• Leadership and training of advanced interns

Mfa, Computer Art

Bs, Digital Arts And Sciences Eng