I provide technical and product leadership for the teams who build the server-side SDKs, APIs, tools and test infrastructure that millions of developers use to integrate with Stripe. As one of Stripe's product architects, I'm responsible for helping the whole engineering org navigate the most complex and cross-cutting public API changes quickly and collaboratively, while maintaining Stripe's famously high quality bar.As the lead for Stripe's API Design Patterns working group, I help drive discussions around defining the features, semantics and conventions that make Stripe's integration surfaces an industry "gold standard".

Dev User Experience includes teams that build the Stripe SDKs, IDE extensions, CLIs, developer dashboard and customer-facing test infrastructure.

I provide some of the best engineering teams in the world with world-class developer training, to empower rapid and sustainable product development an increasingly complex world. Clients and students include engineering teams from:AddeparAppleBufferCheckmateDollar Shave ClubEricssonFacebookFreshbooksGithubGoogleHerokuIntercomIora HealthLinkedInMicrosoftNetflixPagerdutyPivotsharePractice FusionThoughtbotTicketflyTravis-CITumblrTwitchYahooZenefits

I'm about 50% Engineer, 30% Product Manager, and 20% UX Researcher. My primary responsibilities include:- Defining the human-facing experience for high-leverage aspects of LinkedIn’s internal and OSS infrastructure (i.e., the company’s use of GitHub, and CLIs that all ~6000 LinkedIn engineers use daily)- Building consensus around org-wide productivity-oriented standards and design patterns for GUI, CLI, and library design- Conducting usability studies, an in-depth analysis of findings, and providing concrete recommendations addressing pain points- Supporting engineering execs w/ recommendations that help define the strategy for developer-facing aspects of LinkedIn’s engineering infrastructure

I run the developer training program for the Presentation Infrastructure group, where I plan, develop and teach a wide range of multi-day immersive workshops (15 and counting) on topics like* Progressive Web Applications* JavaScript and TypeScript* Web Security* Web Performance* Functional ProgrammingFrom time to time and on an as-needed basis, I provide technical guidance and oversight for infrastructure development in certain areas like Service Workers and Progressive Web App technologies

A JavaScript meetup that focuses on fostering cross-pollination between framework communities.

- Provided technical and product vision for the company, reporting directly to the CEO- Led efforts to revolutionize program management efforts, through agile methodologies - Leader and principal contributor to the company's product development, program management and engineering efforts, including:---- iOS app (started and shipped within a three week timeframe)---- High-performance real-time API, built with Elixir on Phoenix Framework and Postgres---- Web UI, powered by Ember.js- Drove the engineering recruitment efforts, successfully competing with global tech giants like Google and Facebook

UI lead for Yahoo Ad Manager Plus, our Demand Side Platform and flagship ad product, UI Architect for Yahoo's Ads & Data division* A driving force in the adoption of modern web frameworks across Yahoo* Expert in large-scale modern JavaScript application development * My team's focus on quality was highlighted as a company-wide quarterly "win" in 2014Q2 * My time is split between development, mentoring, code reviewing, meeting with partners in product development, managing releases, triaging production bugs, design reviews, and team management

* Worked with entrepreneurs and small businesses to iterate on their product and/or business model* Identified and evaluated technologies, taking project constraints and objectives into consideration* Oversaw and managed product development lifecycle on behalf of clients* Planned, designed and built custom web applications, with a focus on process automation and mobile web

* Team lead and architect for consumer-facing web app, through which photographers sell their photos to roughly 2.5 million customers annually* Known for being the company's "product guy" and user-experience specialist* Extensively leveraged HTML5/CSS3 technologies, including those in the area of mobile web, to improve user experience and portability* Conducted isolated user tests to reduce uncertainty of important unknowns* Administered and managed company-wide project management software (JIRA)* Managed contractors and employees* Determined and enforced JavaScript software development practices that promote extensibility, low maintenance, easy bug fixing, and developer happiness.* Acted as an informal "Scrum Master", advocating Agile project management principles

* Addressed infrastructure changes, usability improvements, and other implementation details related to "parts based meshing" feature set* Implemented high-performance swing components to responsively allow manipulation of tens of thousands of objects* Extended Netbeans RCP to meet user interface needs of new features* Built new automated tests on top of a customized XTest framework* Debugged, profiled and fixed defects on both client (Java) and server (C++), across many operating systems and architectures

* Designed and implemented geometric surface repair and finite element analysis features.* Improved a process management feature, whereby long-running tasks on a server could report their progress, and stop running ("cancel") at the request of the user

Worked on a Honda R&D funded project to generate an automatic Finite Element mesh, optimized for good performance Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) computer simulations. I had some fun using OpenGL to visualize mesh quality and provide some rudimentary interactive surface repair.