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Seattle, Wa, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Plan, implement, and coordinate delivery of complex projects (from page-level redesigns to access control changes) in collaboration with design, product, customer success, and marketing.Develop and maintain full-stack features with React, Node.js, Java, and ElasticSearch—including adding support for custom search grammar via Lucene parsers and increasing relevancy of search results.Established product release process for changing common UX with minimal user frustration, including in-app education, external blog posts, internal enablement videos, and analytics dashboards to track adoption.Create innovative demos to demonstrate flexibility of core product with familiar domains (recipe collection, movie characters) and to cultivate curiosity and delight across the company; several demos now referenced in external calls.Identify process needs within growing team and build consensus around lightweight practices to reduce oncall burden, and to improve developer documentation, asynchronous communication, and onboarding efficiency.Develop and evangelize educational resources—written and recorded—on web accessibility, React Hooks best practices, CSS fundamentals, service architecture, and more.Won peer-nominated and executive-selected Culture Award in Q4 2021 for company-wide impact.Won inaugural award nominated by members of the Customer Success team in Q4 2021 for customer advocacy.

Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Consistently delivered intricate and accessible front-end focused features ahead of schedule using React and Ruby.Proposed peer-recognition feature via product brief, then implemented front-end and Slack features when prioritized.Prototyped complex features to provide clearer estimates on risks and requirements, then shipped polished versions—including mobile-ready drag-and-drop editor for the org chart and Slack slash commands with account binding.Collaborated with Product team on user research, discovery, scoping, design, and usage metrics of upcoming projects.Advocated for user privacy by creating processes to consider security from product planning through code review.Designed technical interview question and evaluation system for internship hiring process.Managed intern during summer 2019; held weekly 1:1s for feedback and provided mid-point and final review.

Austin, Tx, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Designed, built, and maintained full-stack features with complex visual requirements using Ember.js, Ruby, and Java.Coordinated team of three engineers and a product manager for four-month project; led reprioritization efforts when requirements changed and shipped functional feature within reduced timeline.Rolled out strict Content Security Policy to existing app with over 100,000 daily users without a single disruption.Implemented changes in distributed test runner to run only files related to changes; up to 94% reduction in resources.Created automated reports to track and identify test flakes, which were adopted and extended by four other teams.Researched and thoroughly documented institutional knowledge and processes, for team and for shared codebases.Designed quarterly surveys to track developer feedback for infrastructure team roadmap and key results tracking.Organized and facilitated community-building events including external technical talk events, internal panels on career levels, roundtable discussions for women in engineering, and accomplishment-tracking workshops.Regularly participated in hiring process; conducted over 100 technical interviews of industry candidates.

Houston, Tx, Us

Redesigned CodeSkulptor programming tool for student usability in collaboration with UX researcher.Contributed major architectural improvements to Skulpt, an open-source JavaScript implementation of Python; rearchitected underlying class type system to be more extensible, unblocking long-standing feature requests.Introduced profiling and timing tools and decreased test run time by 6%.

Designed and built a single-page app with Backbone.js to dynamically render documentation about internal NPM packages; developed user experience for cross-functional team members with different goals.Wrote exemplar documentation to demonstrate best practices and interactive code examples.

Houston, Tx, Us

Collaborated on codebases of Skulpt and CodeSkulptor; listed as 4th most prolific contributor to Skulpt.Integrated Google Maps API to develop GUI harness for CodeSkulptor used in Rice introductory course.Implemented missing Python modules and methods, resolved over 20 client-facing bugs.