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New York

New York City Metropolitan Area

Helmed an engineering team working on the Quality SaaS product through modernization (tech debt) and customer-facing feature additions. Took on the Product lead role for Quality: defined a quarterly roadmap by way of a prioritization value matrix, interviews, and company-wide promotion. Added lightweight and measurable process improvements to make gains on predictability, velocity, and collaboration, while preventing burnout.

Greater New York City Area

Led engineering, QA and DevOps teams in defining the technical future of food52.com, promoting investment in technology, team growth and best practices - Managed and grew a critical company team through unpredictable changes with very low attrition - Shepherded technical integration of two acquisitions (Dansk, Schoolhouse) - Collaborated with senior engineers in defining a technical strategy to scale with additional acquisitions - Served as Product team lead for eight months during an interim period between VPs, Product - Iterated constantly on processes, team structure and best practices - Implemented formal incident retrospectives on revenue or customer impacting production events - Promoted adoption of new technologies, and encouraged experimentation - Advocated for increased team size, diversity, and individual growth - Encouraged the use of data to measure team performance and expose inefficiencies - Worked closely with Product and Design colleagues on project estimation, coordination of resources and roadmapping - Managed infrastructure budget, negotiated contracts, devised solutions with vendors - Promoted security mindset across the company

New York

Led engineering initiatives in fast-paced, growth-phase startup. Managed teams of between two and ten engineers. Paid constant attention to code hygiene, performance and measurability. Promoted best practices and improved team agile processes. Worked closely with product managers and other engineering managers to constantly refine and improve engineering culture and maintain standards in the context of a tripling team size. Interviewed dozens of engineering and product candidates.Focused technically on search and agent workflow features; established 24x7 on-call standards for the team. Drove post-mortem discussions to prevent future recurrences of outages and usability incidents.Responsible for all team metrics, conformance with company-wide SLAs, coordinating team capacity with product priorities and overall product quality within the saved-search domain.

New York

Coordinated teams and managed software engineers through multiple initiatives. Improved agile processes for better predictability and consistency. Mentored junior engineers, set goals and grew skill sets. Focused primarily on post-purchase workflows for customers in a two sided marketplace where the return process followed different routes, depending on the vendor.Drove overall deployment process improvements for the engineering team with the goal of continuous integration and deployments.

New York, Ny

Managed teams of software engineers across epicurious.com and bonappetit.com. Strategized with product managers and PMO. Architected large and small project initiatives, integrated and co-architected mobile efforts. Envisioned, enacted and promoted long range technical plans, set and enforced development standards and processes. Sought and identified opportunities to leverage components and efforts across both brands. Conducted joint sharing sessions for engineers to share their work with one another.

New York, Ny

Managed team of software engineers through a complex, full-stack re-platforming effort on the premier food utility site on the web. Architected and built services and presentation layer applications on Express and Node.js. Planned data migration, designed content models, organized mapping of legacy to modern models. Formulated future strategies. Delegated tasks, consolidated tickets into sprints. Organized and ran weekly sprint planning and grooming sessions and set process standards. Performed employee reviews and set goals for individuals and the Epicurious engineering team.

New York, Ny

Manage site development and maintenance, architect new project initiatives, represent the technical team to business stakeholders.