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Seattle, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

* Drive technical strategy for suite of systems with combined 20k requests/second with a minimum uptime SLA of 99.95%* Create growth plan for expanding system availability into new geographic location* Coach and grow engineering managers in competencies such as performance management, career development, mentorship, working with cross-functional partners, and technical oversight* Support Principal Engineers in identifying and executing on cross-organizational technical challenges, resulting in 60%+ load reduction on critical tables in primary database* Provide leadership and support for an organization of more than 40 members from Software Engineer 1 to Engineering ManagerKey Initiatives:* Restructured engineering teams to consolidate management, reducing overhead by 25% and enabling deepened focus on Board View, a key product feature now led by the transitioned manager

Bellevue, Wa, Us

* Lead an organization of 4 teams, including 7 direct reports and 13 skip reports, including teams responsible for the Smartsheet Design System, Front End Architecture (shared front-end tooling), Smartsheet Forms, Smartsheet Update and Approval Requests, and AI Formula Builder * Contributed to the proof of concept, product scope, and delivery of Smartsheet’s first to market AI offering* Drove adoption of engineering and product prioritization processes for the design system shared component library that enabled release of all features comprising of Smartsheet’s redesign* Assumed leadership of Smartsheet Forms and Update/Approval requests, services which handle 17MM+ submissions per month with a success rate of 99.95%+ * Supported the team in shipping a multi-phase migration from EC2-based MySQL to a separate RDS instance with zero downtime for 9 tables with a combined 40MM rows

Bellevue, Wa, Us

* Engineering manager with 7 direct reports ranging from Software Engineer I to Senior Software Engineer II* Lead a team owning five microservices spanning several languages and frameworks including Ruby, TypeScript, and JavaKey achievements:* Led team to deploy and maintain a service with a 14% month-over-month growth* Won CTO's award at company-wide week-long hackathon for most technically impressive implementation

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Currently feature team lead for the 10,000ft-Smartsheet Integration.Key achievements:* Sole engineer on Smartsheet's re-pricing and Go to Market strategy to integrate 10,000ft into the Smartsheet product and pricing platform* Designed and implemented the OAuth2 provider in 10,000ft, integrating with a highly custom authentication and authorization impementation (technologies: Ruby on Rails, Ruby, RSpec)* Lead architect and author of the client-side application data layer that powers the Smartsheet-10,000ft Integration front-end (technologies: TypeScript, Jest, React)* Maintained test coverage of 90%+ in the data layer (12% higher than the company-wide aspirational test coverage benchmark)

Bellevue, Wa, Us

10,000ft was acquired by Smartsheet, opening up our powerful resource management tool to a much broader audience. As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the 10,000ft team at Smartsheet, I am working to improve the performance and scalability of our platform as we become an enterprise SaaS company. I'm currently leading the engineering team in the business-critical integration between the two products.Key Achievements:2019: Implemented an OAuth 2.0-compliant provider that integrated with our custom authentication and authorization logic to support the 10,000ft-Smartsheet integration

Core engineer for a Seattle-based B2B SaaS company specializing in beautiful, collaborative project and resource management tools. Responsibilities include rapid prototyping and collaborative ideation with design director; implementing and maintaining features from the data layer, through the API, to the client; participating in regular code reviews to ensure consistently high code quality standards across application architecture; and writing and presenting technical design reviews for upcoming features.Key achievements:2018: Improved performance of the API test suite by 19% (80K LOC codebase)2017: Re-engineered the app’s analytics page, decreasing 95th percentile time-to-interact (TTI) from ~30s to 250ms2016: Led feature team for a full rewrite of the reporting module in React and Redux, resulting in a 400% performance improvement on initial page render

Seattle, Wa, Us

Engineering team lead for a boutique creative technology agency with a client list including WikiMedia Foundation, FritoLay, Russel Investments, Microsoft, and CenturyLink Cloud. Responsibilities included building and deploying responsive websites and web applications and contributing to the creation and presentation of technical approach documentation for new business proposals.Key achievements:2016: Lead engineer during the company’s most profitable quarter (Q1 2016)2015: Initiated adoption of the Go programming language as a market differentiator through a weekly book club and assigned exercises and projects

Seattle, Wa, Us

Application developer for the market leader in patient relationship management and free oncology community, serving cancer survivors, oncology clinics, and pharmaceutical companies. Responsibilities included employing test-driven development to design, implement, and maintain features; leveraging agile and scrum software development methodologies to keep features tightly scoped and on budget; and utilizing pair programming to ensure DRY, object oriented, maintainable code in collaboration with colleagues.Key achievements:2015: Member of the authentication team; rewrote user authentication using microservices, resulting in increased security and HIPAA compliance for all 880,000 users2014: Redesigned and built the homepage with a responsive layout and a 325% improvement in average page load2012: Rebuilt the patient forms wizard, a 10+ step form process, resulting in a 25% overall decrease in support calls

Seattle, Wa, Us

Front-end developer for the web properties of a local graduate school. Responsibilities included creating pages with and maintaining the content management system powering the school's main web presence, coding and distributed HTML email to mailing lists with nearly 10,000 subscribers, and created a custom website for The Allender Center, the conference arm of The Seattle School.Key achievements:* Designed and built the school’s first digital annual report, a responsively designed website optimized for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices

Seattle, Wa, Us

Contract front-end developer for a large web application helping international students navigate the American university system. Responsibilities included developing the front-end aspect of a substantial site redesign to better meet business goals, coordinated efforts between design team and back-end developers to ensure consistency between the site’s aesthetic and technical aspects, and conceptualizing interaction design and production front-end code for web application with a user base of nearly 500,000 monthly unique visitors, localized in 12 languages.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Contract engineer, designing and implementing HTML5/CSS3 front-ends for Ruby on Rails web applications

Master Of Arts In Counseling Psychology

Ba In French Language And Literature, Minor In Linguistics