Lisa Ballard Email & Phone Number

Burlingame, Ca, Us

• Typescript, React, GraphQL, React Query, RTL, Material-UI• cross functional team tech lead, project planning, implementation breakdowns, continuous delivery, coordination and collaboration with offshore engineers

San Francisco, California, Us

• Worked on a wide range of projects including porting our legacy user-accounts experience to new react hooks + redux SPA architecture with full unit test coverage in RTL, performance tuning including improving our site-wide web vitals CLS metric by 30%, researched and documented security issues, fixed bugs and improved accessibility• frontend web, top-of-funnel growth team, data-driven product development lifecycle, moving metrics in engagement, cancellations, BTR• shipping n-way tests and new features with maintainable, performant, peer-reviewed code, unit test coverage, responsive design, accessibility, localization, git-based workflow in a continuous deployment environment• agile development on cross-functional team, technical implementation breakdowns, estimates of effort and delivery timelines, communicating trade-offs, collaborating with QA, product, design, data science, coordinating cross-functionally with teams across the company• investigating production issues, incident response, fixing bugs, refactoring, technical debt cleanup, giving and receiving code reviews, mentoring early-career engineers• frontend testing with RTL, jest, end-to-end testing with webdriver, cross-browser and multi-device debugging, manual QA testing

• collaborated with NASA scientists as lead developer of OPUS, an multi-mission search UI and API for browsing and downloading planetary space mission data• built OPUS with SPA architecture with Python, Django, MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap. • architected and coded data ingestion pipelines and caching strategies to support rapid release turnarounds• Coded and launched a public API for interacting with OPUS, gave talks on how to use it• Ported a large complex website from static html to Jekyll • a variety of ad hoc web development projects with Rings Node and/or SETI Institute

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Coded the web app that drove Pacifica Radio Network's first podcasts and mp3 archives, one of the earliest public radio stations to start offering podcasts• Collaborated with IT team and stakeholders to launch KPFA's 24/7 audio broadcast archives to an on-demand web UI, including browsable web pages with show content and links to audio feeds, and a backend UI for updating daily broadcast content• developed workflows to connect on-air pledge gift inventory with the public facing website, enabling for the first time listeners being able to choose from an inventory of free gifts when pledging online • Worked with community of staff and on-air talent to build a dynamic website promoting ongoing KPFA broadcasts and community events• Developed internal and public-facing web applications tailored to integrate with existing workflows and evolving organizational needs

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Started as IT assistent, moved into non-profit membership coordinator position. Worked with the Subscriptions Director to handle the processing of over $2 million annually in mostly-small donations. Reported to the Development Director to provide administrative and technical support for fundraising campaigns. Provided responsive, professoinal member support. Developed and implemented new internal procedures and workflows. Hacked custom data migrations and reports as needed. Trained and supervised student interns, and helped train 2 predecessors for this position. Served on web team developing KPFA's early web presence. Other roles include FM radio board op, radio engineering technician, on-air music programmer, weekly host of First Light early morning music show.

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics With Concentration In Astronomy

Technical Communication