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As a Senior Software Engineer at Lululemon Studio, I played a critical role in the ecommerce team, contributing to the development and maintenance of features on the Spree Commerce site.During my tenure, the company transitioned to Shopify, and I led the development efforts for a Shopify app that facilitated the seamless migration of fulfillment integrations.Key contributions:- Spearheaded the development and maintenance of features on the Ruby on Rails SpreeCommerce site, ensuring a smooth user experience and efficient online shopping process.- Worked collaboratively with the supply chain team to design and implement the integration of our logistics operations with a third-party logistics provider. This initiative successfully consolidated 3 third-party integrations with different providers into a unified and efficient solution. Notably, this crucial enhancement served as a key feature enabling the launch of our site in Canada, facilitating the delivery of our product in the region.- Designed and implemented the development of a Shopify app using Ruby on Rails, achieving feature parity with the legacy site, facilitating the porting of fulfillment integrations and creating a allowing for an optimal order processing and delivery system.- Worked collaboratively with the IT team to ensure the Ruby on Rails infrastructure's smooth deployment and operation for the Shopify fulfillment app.- Successfully navigated challenges resulting from team member turnover, demonstrating adaptability and maintaining a high level of productivity and dedication.

Key Contributions:- Co-founded and served as Head of Engineering, playing a key role in the launch and establishment of a consulting firm specializing in Ruby on Rails for enterprise solutions. - Achieved seamless collaboration with clients, resulting in the successful steering of product development, maintenance, and timely delivery, thereby enhancing overall client satisfaction and project outcomes.- Partnered with the recruitment team to source and hire engineers, driving team expansion from 2 to 13 within a year, encompassing Sr/Lead Engineers to junior contributors.- Implemented Agile methods and best practices within the Engineering Team and integrated our clients into the agile process.- Effectively managed concurrent projects for multiple clients, overseeing team resources to ensure timely delivery and meet project deadlines with precision.- Led the design and implementation of full-stack features for diverse projects across multiple clients, significantly advancing and enhancing various products within a dynamic and multifaceted project landscape.- Conducted in-depth investigation and implemented solutions for high-priority and complex bugs, serving as the ultimate escalation point for issues exceeding the team's capability.- Led the establishment of comprehensive team documentation and fostered expertise within the team for evaluating and achieving ADA compliance in clients' websites. Successfully halted an ongoing lawsuit for one client and ensured another retained crucial federally funded partnerships through our collective commitment to accessibility standards. - Enhanced clients' cloud infrastructure by pinpointing and addressing inefficiencies, yielding remarkable monthly cost savings, including cases with reductions of up to 70%.

- Collaborated with the team to enable end-to-end development of full-stack features with a strong focus on Ruby on Rails, seamlessly integrating backend services with customer-facing frontend applications.- Demonstrated commitment to code quality by meticulously writing tests for each implemented feature, ensuring robust functionality and minimizing the likelihood of post-deployment issues.- Assumed a key role in maintaining code integrity and elevating overall codebase quality through meticulous review and constructive feedback on peers' code before integration.

- Collaborated extensively within the Engineering organization to develop and implement a robust Platform as a Service (PaaS). The goal was to provide ongoing support for product engineers, enabling them to independently provision infrastructure and mirror the efficient functionality of Heroku.- Drove the expansion of the PaaS, utilizing tools like bash scripts, Docker, Grafana, AWS, and others to establish comprehensive visibility into key monitoring metrics- Proactively conducted assessments to identify and address potential security issues within the PaaS.

- Collaborate with an Agile team to design, build, and maintain a micro services-based Ruby on Rails web application hosted entirely within AWS.- Work with Team Leads and Product Managers to develop and deliver new software features. - 5th hire (of 40) to a best-practices, no SPOFs, FullStack team.- Write tests in RSpec to ensure functional specifications and prevent regressions.- Developed hundreds of features in an agile environment using Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.- Build RESTful APIs, using Ruby on Rails and Grape, to enable cross-application communication.- Critique and improve code of other engineers through Github pull requests and frequent pair coding.- Work closely with QA to identify, reproduce, and fix bugs.- Help build and maintain tools for testing and deployment. - Key contributor to a refactor of our container-based testing environment that delivered a 5x performance improvement.- Help with the on-boarding and training of new hires by configuring new laptop OS installs and pairing to ensure code commits on day-one.- Write meaningful stories to capture product requirements and deliver user value- Work with Product managers and Designers to build and maintain our UI.