Staff Engineer on the DX team at AMBOSS.Cultural contributions:* leading biweekly web guild meetings to discuss news, industry trends, presentations on various technical subject matter, and provide a relaxed community space for frontenders at AMBOSS.* Managing continuous 1-1s with FE engineers across various product teams to work on development plans, check in, and ensure that developers feel heard and included; that they're advancing in their careers, and that they see chances within their work to apply lessons to other positive facets of life as well.Technical contributions:* Introducing patterns and structure to shared packages, libraries, and patterns to ensure that product teams are moving more efficiently.* Working with a holistic understanding of AMBOSS systems to ensure that new projects and initiatives land in favorable surroundings on arrival.* Acting in an advisory and contributing capacity for company-wide engineering efforts, such as engineering strategy, hiring processes, and revisions to our career development framework.* Supporting other teams in achieving their schedules and goals through cross-communication, direct contribution, and preparing / sharing design and initiative docs.* Acting as a FE tech lead on major company initiatives, working with design, platform engineering, BE and product leaders to ensure that all parties hvae alignment and clear next steps going forward.

Led efforts within and across product, engineering and executive teams to:- ideate 3 major feature sets over a tiered production release plan of 2-, 4-, 5-, and 6-monthfeature releases- reduce process inefficiency by implementing new interdisciplinary ways of working across ourdistributed team of 9- explain the technical details and draft implementation plans for various features in technicaland natural language that could bridge the 4 native languages held by team members.- Acquire and maintain deep familiarity with our implementation to identify and keep watch formisunderstandings, incompatibilities, missing elements, and places of opportunity.- Identify and correct various issues in communication, conceptual misunderstandings, andinterpersonal conflict to move the team forward as a unified collective while reducing the amount of time our 5 engineers were spending idle.

Self-assigned and executed on tasks to improve the build systems, DX, and general accessibility /consistency of existing project codebases.Reviewed designs with design and product team members to provide estimates on timelines forvarious frontend and backend features.Created the skeleton and first features of a new, extensible set of backend services for internaladministration of users, data, and resources.Contributed custom, core UI components as part of an extensible UI framework for the projectmoving forward.Dove deep into various spike tickets to create reports, comparisons, and impact analyses onpotential technologies for various fundamental applications within the product spec.Collaborated with the tech lead, people, and growth teams to draft new templates and interviewquestions for engineers at all levels of skill.

Participated in multiple Code Particle projects, closed and open source.Trained new hires and onboarded them into various projects.Worked across teams and companies throughout the product lifecycle and across the stack, with a focus on, but not limited to cybersecurity projects.Projects that I have contributed work to through Codeparticle have been seen and are used by millions. Example: Launch Gift Cards network, which powers gift card pages on Uber and Doordash, as well as many other clients worldwide.