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Missouri City, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

• Supported 50+ person org spanning back-end, web & mobile engineers, ML, Data Science, Data Engineers, Product Management, and UX functions• Drove vision and strategy for the entire user funnel from SEO and onboarding to customer support, returns, tooling and infrastructure.• Guided development of frameworks for Development, Testing, Observability, Privacy & Security with an emphasis on developer experience and productivity• Championed observability and leveraged team & org level analytics to enhance decision making • Accelerated machine learning platform pivot, increasing ML feature development velocity and internal platform adoption, leading to a 120% increase in CTR and 183% increase in demand • Ensured organizational compliance with key standards, including ADA, SOX, PCI, and InfoSec • Refocused payment platform strategy, improving performance and reducing fraudulent activity by over 80%• Orchestrated a successful re-platforming effort, shifting focus away from a legacy PHP to React, leading to improved outcomes and resulting in the highest Core Web Vital scores in Zulily history• Re-organized teams and aligned organizational technical strategy to optimize for customer value, product flow, and business economics• Established continuous improvement objectives and process across organization and drove development & on-call changes reducing incidents and time to recover by 89% and improving the development life cycle• Realigned culture from a bias to build to a focus on targeted strategic engineering, identifying over $4.2 million in reduced annualized infrastructure expenses • Collaborated with peers on Zulily's largest tech-wide re-platforming project, defining technical strategy and change management to navigate company-wide turnaround initiatives• Constructed engineering manager growth framework and mentored ICs and managers in personal & team growth • Managed onshore, nearshore, and offshore contractor relationships and roadmap

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Constructed React/Redux/Router UI components facilitating real-time shared communication over P2P connections for server-side video streaming via WebRTC and CodemirrorDeveloped Node/Express server-side processes automating non-technical team member workflow, email notifications, event registration, and ensure fresh supply of state to application’s Redux storeCo-designed and deployed ACID compliant Postgres database housing user and event dataMaintained and developed server and UI components under a custom server-side rendering architecture marrying EJS, YAML, Slim, and SASSMentored 60+ developers furthering their understanding of engineering best practices, closure, OOP, functional programming concepts, and database designOversaw open source developer tool and production projects for GraphQL implementations, distributed WebRTC P2P file servers, Node data streams for near-time video analyzation, and geo-location weather forecasting for Sub-Saharan farmersCreated algorithm to recursively parse GraphQL introspection queries and extract node edge meta-data from resulting abstract syntax treesCreated algorithm to traverse and extract property types and values from data to dynamically draw SVG visualizations mapping node edge communication Extracted data from abstract syntax tree to automatically create and/or maintain API documentationDeveloped React components to filter and display schema visualizations and documentation Utilized React-Router to maintain history and application data consistency between views

Bakersfield, California, Us

Architected document workflow and UI for tablet based digital document software allowing off-site employees to minimize stale data and increase data process speedDeveloped business requirements for off-site project engineers, including custom client e-commerce, interfaces, supply chain management, inventory control, and billingUser tested software and conducted focus groups to improve workflow and usability Added node instances to distributed remote Cloud Server System and integrated localized mesh networksIdentified user notification parameters and high density network communication channels, notably lessening latency and dropped signal by transitioning to low RFI bands Managed and interpreted instrument data sets, monitored trends and anomalies, and identified significant event emitters, decreasing negative eventsConformed webpage view to UX design principles by implementing standardized CSS style rules and media queries to ensure cross device responsiveness

Developed web-to-print products providing both API and shrink wrapped solutions, integrating client side GUIs, CS6 print layout software, and dynamic digital print solutions.Designed direct-to-print web templates and utilized REST endpoints to send printable files to digital printers