• Led Skillsoft’s Consumer Engineer department (in charge of Codecademy).• Managed nine teams across two domains (engineering and data) in two countries (US & IN).• Directed and coached other managers and directors.• Guided strategy and participated in long term planning.• Navigated both rapid growth and market contraction.• Executed organizational restructurings.• Transformed our processes to optimize strategic alignment.• Advocated and drove the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), LLMs, and agentic design through the facilitation of expert panels, workshops, guides, hackathons, and product alignment.• Designed the organization of our monorepo to enhance stability and time-to-market.• Audited and vetted our engineering tools and vendors.• Participated in community outreach to aid PR and brand awareness.• Handled hiring, training, and performance management.• Designed a new competency ladder providing room for growth while adapting to business needs.• Refined the processes of Data Engineer and Data Science teams to better integrate into SDLC.• Created and coordinated training, workshops, and hackathons to foster technical growth.

• Ran all the product engineering teams (5) at Codecademy.• Negotiated organizational design during a period of change.• Hired and promoted managers, arranged multiple transfers and tours to align capacity to strategy.• Contributed to and communicated product strategy.• Clarified area ownership and delegated engineering initiatives.• Created manager roundtables to foster a growth mindset among our leadership.• Facilitated and improved New Manager Onboarding, Engineer All Hands, and Engineering Updates.• Lead Tech Community, optimizing it to increase engagement and align to engineering strategy.• Reorganized our on-call to compensate for team capacity.• Created RFCs, RFPs, documentation, and training material.

• Managed 11 engineers across two teams in very different sectors.• Hired and mentored engineers and managers across multiple domains.• Coaching an IC into am EM role, and Onboarded a new manager hire.• Evolved team processes to create better predictability and consistency in delivery.• Fostering engineering growth to reduce attrition.• Lead our internal Tech Community to build a culture of growth.• Created brown bags, lightning talks, workshops and hackathons to level up skills and encourage innovation.• Improved documentation to enhance remote work.

• Managed six engineers on the Reach team providing coaching, code reviews, pairing, and formal performance reviews.• Established and evolved our team processes to encourage predictable delivery and incremental improvements.• Interviewed over 60 candidates and hired a dozen engineers helping our company triple in the last 18 months.• Lead our internal technical community, helping coordinate and encourage participation in tech reading/discussion, lightning talks, brown bags, and hackathons.• Established and organized our hiring and apprenticeship documentation.• Crafted a charter for our business unit establishing vision, mission, roles, responsibilities, and practices.• Created engineering management guides for new managers to provide best practices in leadership.• Helped our company adopt both GraphQL and Next.js.• Empowered our team to build novel applications like Codebytes, a landing page builder, and Codecademy Docs.

• Lead a Scrum team to diversify Plated's product offerings by introducing brunch, appetizers, sides, and meal customizations.• Lead an Agile/Kanban team to address legal compliance in the areas of tax, privacy (CCPA, GDPR, PCI), and accessibility (ADA).• Managed five engineers across three teams providing mentorship and coaching using weekly one-on-ones, SMART goals, performance reviews, and peer feedback.• Worked with Product Managers to define minimum viable products, break work down into stories, review designs, identify edge cases and risks, communicate with stakeholders, and collaborate across teams.• Presented at tech open mics giving talks on API optimization, security, dependency management, and new tools and services.• Wrote documentation and training material on matters such as API optimizations, Intro to Cryptography, Netlify + Gatsby, and Backpressure in data streams.• Assisted in the hiring process for directors, managers, developers, product managers, and product designers.• Influenced the direction of our system architecture through participation in the platform committee and Github Issues discussions as well as writing RFCs (request for comments), ADRs (architecture decision records), and tech specs.• Helped move our company away from a monolith to a [more] service-oriented architecture.• Lead an initiative to create a better separation of client and server layers which included adopting such technologies as GraphQL, Apollo, Typescript, and CSS modules.• Developed multiple APIs on a Ruby on Rails stack with a Postgres database hosted on Heroku.• Worked on a React frontend with a complex REST-based API and state layer.• Increased system observability through setting up a SumoLogic system health dashboard.For a more detailed description of what I did at Plated, refer to my "Software Engineering Manager’s Field Guide" at http://bit.ly/plated-sem.

• Involved in all aspects of development from hiring a developer and UX designer, ideation, visual designs, writing RFPs, vetting digital agencies, and reading/signing contracts.• Managed utilizing one-on-ones, setting up goals, defining work, tracking progress, and performance reviews.• Managed a backlog to organize work and project out timelines.• Built and maintained the marketing sites using a Gulp-based Node.js build system that compiles Less, ES6, and JSON files into a MetalSmith JAM-stack site using Handlebars for the templating engine. • Architected a complex React / Redux, Lunr search application with a custom faceting system that auto builds and deploys using Netlify, and is back-ended by a completely independent multi-site CMS that exposes its content through JSON / Rest APIs. • Built an Ionic-based (Typescript / Angular) cross platform mobile app.Implemented a number NodeJS-based Serverless Framework microservices in order to integrate dynamic functionality into these largely static websites.• Created a Go / golang deploy service that listens for Github webhooks and automatically deploys application code.• Managed, helped build, and now maintain and enhance a directory and search site that uses Apache Solr as its search engine.• Architected and deployed a scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructure, using many Amazon cloud web services (AWS). Key technologies include: Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), SSL certs, Ubuntu, Varnish, Nginx, EC2, Autoscaling Group (AG), Amazon Machine Image (AMI), VPCs, Amazon CodeDeploy, Amazon RDB, Elasti-Cache, Elastic Filesystem (EFS), and Amazon SES

Developing both front-end and back-end web application in Drupal. Building for a highly scalable and available international website using advanced caching and infrastructure. The work is managed using the Scrum agile product management system.

develop, extend and support enterprise level websites built in the Drupal CMS; our sites are built on clustered web servers using replicated db servers and extensive caching (data, page and proxy) in order to deliver millions of page views a day; built custom Drupal module, pages, web services (XML, XML-RPC, JSON and AMFPHP), AJAX interfaces, flash (AS3) and performance enhancements

front-end and back-end PHP5 and MySQL5 development and maintenance; head up AJAX implementation; object oriented encapsulation of business logic; created customer service application and employee hours/calendaring application; SOAP web services; administrator of the FreeBSD development environment