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Started by building key e-commerce features like a shopping cart, moved on to tech leading our frontend efforts to personalize our shopping app and our backend efforts to scale our database, and am now leading two teams, improving our first-time customer experience and our post-order updates.

Led the team to modernize Meetup's iOS app by overhauling the user experience for everyone, including localizing the app, resulting in dramatic increases in app downloads & engagement, especially internationally. Also improved developer workflow by introducing automated test runs, static analysis, and linting.

• Architected and built Lore’s new user experience in CoffeeScript and SASS.• Created and maintained dozens of overlays to help professors learn to use Lore.• Overhauled internal Python tool to support Lore’s growth strategy.• Addressed issues with application, framework, server, and deployment code.• Worked with customer support to organize and fix user problems.• Sped up SASS recompilation for development by a factor of 10.

• Architected and built a client-side plugin framework and several of its plugins.• Modified the server software to efficiently send data to the framework and plugins.• Wrote the feature’s design document and scheduled its implementation as small tasks.• Defined the scope of the project and helped design the feature UX.• Collaborated with other teams to share code and add features.