Spencer Sanchez Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for overseeing two superpods in the Build organization, including five teams that handle the company's client-facing SaaS applications, front-of-house web properties, a shared component library, and related APIs and infrastructure. Played a key role in shaping the Engineering team to meet business needs, addressing aspects such as team composition, talent acquisition and retention, onboarding, and coordination with offshore teams. Collaborated with other Engineering leaders to execute long-term strategies and maintained effective communication with stakeholders. Notable achievements include successfully implementing an organizational growth strategy, expanding the Engineering team from 16 to over 100 people in under 18 months with a low attrition rate. Oversaw the timely development of a third major product offering, introduced processes for handling critical escalations and incidents, and established various procedures for hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and OKR-based goal-setting. Introduced an internal professional development series of talks by engineers on diverse topics.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Led and managed 10 full-stack and front-end engineers, owning the development and maintenance of various web properties and apps, such as Business.com and BusinessNewsDaily.com. Responsibilities included sprint composition and execution, ensuring code quality in grade-A browsers, aligning usability with modern conventions, and facilitating communication between Engineering and other business stakeholders. Notable highlights include leading a 9-month project in 2020 to transition the front ends of key properties to a GatsbyJS+React stack, enhancing scalability, web performance, and SEO. Achieved impressive Lighthouse v6 scores and promoted a performance-first environment by implementing performance budgets and analytics. Defined an efficient development workflow, incorporating industry best practices.

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Front-end lead and manager for all FE engineers for the Visualization superpod, overseeing 3 smaller pods. Worked closely with the Room Planner team to help architect the 3D version of the tool, allowing visitors to place 3D versions of items into a virtual room in a browser using BabylonJS. Sat in Tech Lead seat for the Favorites List team for 2019H1 including oversight of a major re-platform of the favoriting system’s entire back end. Certified JavaScript code reviewer, providing expertise and guidance for JS code reviews across the organization. Organized Wayfair’s hosting of the regional React Training in March 2019.

New York, Us

Managed a team of 6 front-end engineers, serving as the Tech Lead and subject matter expert for Purch’s lead generation platform in use across the B2B properties and over 200 publishers. Co-wrote a React + Redux lead gen web widget used across the Purch B2B affiliate program. Developed company’s first React-based project, a React+Flux app to add on more requests after an initial request for quote lead is captured. Implemented a Symfony + React SSR solution for the relaunch of the primary web property.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Developed and maintained the front-end of the “360 Dashboard” product for advisors. Produced POCs as required for the UX team, including live in-browser POCs. Wrote JavaScript style guide and custom ESLint rules for the team for static testing. Served as liaison for Front-End Engineers to .NET full-stack engineers.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Supported front-end code for a JBOSS/Maven platform maintaining all of BuyerZone’s products, including BuyerZone.com, a homegrown front-end for the enterprise CMS in use, and 80+ publisher affiliates. Implemented an SVG-based coverage map for sales to quickly see regions of the country covered by a supplier currently as well as potential areas available that fit the profile. Made front-end development more efficient by introducing a GruntJS-based workflow. Modernized an in-house Sass framework drawing from popular techniques and mixins from the industry.

Bourne, Massachusetts, Us

Built and maintained registration websites, supporting databases, and badge/ticket configuration for events as small as 3500 and as large as 92,000+ attendees and exhibitors. Developed first-to-market iPhone App as a smartphone alternative to other lead retrieval devices, eliminating costs for rental, repair, and shipping of alternative lead retrieval devices. Developed custom surveys, CME / CEU systems, and custom reporting tools post-show. Acted as CDS liaison with the clients for any technical subject matter.

Planned and managed all projects related to the development of a Flash/PHP/MySQL web app serving over 1500 users and containing over 3200 websites. Set up and maintained all domains and servers on which the company’s RIA’s were hosted. Responsible for all non-Flash code and scripts.

Boston, Ma, Us

Coordinated both the school year and summer components of an academic enrichment program in Boston servicing Hispanic/Latino youth in the city.

Ran a local computer center for the a community of residents in Boston's South End.

Liberal Arts Diploma, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, Additional Focus In Mathematics And Logic