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Washington, DC, US

• Principal Engineer overseeing multiple engineering teams, providing technical leadership, architectural guidance, and strategic direction for high-impact projects across Vox Media.
• 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: Provided technical oversight for multiple engineering teams, driving high-impact projects and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: Led the successful migrations of Vox.com and Polygon.com to the new Duet (Next.js front-end) and WordPress platforms, coordinating content migration, API integration, and design.
• 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: Presented and implemented migration strategies and cost models, instilling confidence in stakeholders and informing budgets for future migrations.
• 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Guided the evolution of the Duet and WordPress platforms, ensuring long-term maintainability, reducing technical debt, and empowering teams to contribute effectively without dependency on.
• 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: Elevated senior and staff engineers through mentorship and sponsorship, fostering architectural decision-making and enhancing team autonomy across initiatives.

Washington, DC, US

• Technical lead for the Audience Platform team with a core focus on building the next generation platform to power the consumer experience of the brands under the umbrella of Vox Media LLC
• Led the Audience Platform team in the development and delivery of Duet, a next-generation front-end platform powering multiple Vox Media brands.
• Acted as technical lead and key contributor to The Verge redesign and replatforming, delivering critical features under tight deadlines.
• Served as engineering lead for a tiger team responsible for discovery, architecture, and planning for the migration from the legacy CMS and front-end to WordPress and Duet, shaping the technical vision and execution.
• Delivered critical features while aligning cross-functional teams across product, design, and engineering on a unified platform vision.
• Led migration from Vercel to a self-hosted Kubernetes infrastructure in collaboration with our SRE team, achieving a 93% reduction in infrastructure costs. Gained and applied expertise in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform.

New York, New York, US

• Managed a team of 5 engineers on Group Nine Media’s sites team. The sites team was responsible for building and maintaining a brand-agnostic, modern (React/Next.js/Node) and scalable web platform that powers the sites.
• Established best practices for the team including file structure, naming conventions and general code organization
• Led efforts for the creation of technical documentation for the team, web platform and component library
• Provided technical demonstrations and guidance for using modern react patterns, refactoring the code base to follow these patterns
• Established architecture to implement e2e testing for our web platform automated via the deploy pipeline
• Created and iterated on the interview process for all front-end teams across the organization

New York, New York, US

• Senior software engineer on Group Nine Media's Sites team. The sites team is responsible for building and maintaining a brand-agnostic, modern (React/Next.js/Node) and scalable web platform that powers the sites for.
• Architected the server side infrastructure powering the G9 web platform, including routing and API design.
• Advocated for and spearheaded various performance improvements resulting in an overall 41% decrease in bundle size.
• Worked with design teams to develop UI components and user facing front-end features interacted with by over 500 million combined monthly users
• Built an intelligent, asynchronous, ad implementation which supports integrations such as MOAT and OneTrust for compliance
• Developed architecture to publish articles in Facebook Instant format which reaches an audience of over 60 million users and contributes to as much as 20% of direct sold ad inventory across brands.

New York, New York, US

Senior engineer on POPSUGAR's Glow/Active team developing e-commerce and fitness content streaming solutions. Responsible for contributing to all parts of the stack working in a high impact, cross-functional, role to help team members in product, business development, marketing and finance meet the demands of scaling and operating a new business.

New York, New York, US

• Group Nine Media Acquired POPSUGAR in 2019Responsible for making contributions across the tech stack as well as playing a cross-functional role in a variety of aspects on the team.
• Integrated Stripe for processing customer payments and subscriptions as well as dispensing payouts to sellers
• Responsible for implementing analytics funnels and reports covering data such as traffic, audience and e-commerce behavior. This data was used to inform key decisions during the scaling process for engineering, design.
• Redesigned shopping cart and checkout flow to improve sales conversion
• Created fully featured admin and seller dashboards for making marketplace changes, monitoring analytics and viewing/downloading reports
• Implemented an interface for customer support teams to review customer purchases and process refunds

San Francisco, CA, US

• As full-stack engineer and one of the original members joining the Glow by PopSugar team before product launch I was responsible for making contributions across the tech stack as well as playing a cross-functional role.
• Integrated Stripe for processing customer payments and subscriptions as well as dispensing payouts to sellers
• Responsible for implementing analytics funnels and reports covering data such as traffic, audience and e-commerce behavior. This data was used to inform key decisions during the scaling process for engineering, design.
• Redesigned shopping cart and checkout flow to improve sales conversion
• Created fully featured admin and seller dashboards for making marketplace changes, monitoring analytics and viewing/downloading reports
• Implemented an interface for customer support teams to review customer purchases and process refunds

San Francisco, CA, US

• Full-stack engineer on the data team. Responsible for developing all new features and design improvements in the Angular front-end as well as maintaining the Node.js back-end for our commerce platform and writing any.
• Led migration and refactoring of PHP API from Silex to Symfony 4
• Architected integration of AWS Athena to existing end points to support custom/historical date range queries
• Contributed to custom presto query builder necessary to support the Athena queries made in the PHP API

San Francisco, CA, US

• Front-end engineer on the PopSugar data team responsible for all front-end development of PopSugar’s TrendRank technology.
• Added rich data visualizations to the platform using C3 and D3
• Developed administrative functionality which allowed employees to perform a variety of tasks which had previously required time-intensive manual effort from engineers
• Introduced a publisher analysis feature to offer helpful competitive insights to our editorial team
• Worked closely with the UI/UX design team to complete major UI redesigns of the platform using a mobile first design approach and the creation of a custom component library

San Francisco, CA, US

Full-stack software engineering intern working on PopSugar's proprietary TrendRank technology. TrendRank is a data driven web application for evaluating trends based on aggregated data from media, editorial sources and social platforms. My role included full-stack responsibilities for the application layer of the technology. The application is built on a.

Berkeley, CA, US

Part-time, equity incentivized, position leading a small team of engineering and design interns to build a fully functional MVP for a home co-ownership startup seeking to raise funding. The key deliverables of the product were to inform potential customers and process shared home ownership applications. Developed a single page application using React.

Boulder, Colorado, US

A 6-month (1000+ hours) full-time web development immersive program focused on front-end, back-end, single page web application frameworks and computer science curriculum. Technologies of the curriculum include: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Express, SQL, React, Redux, Angular, data structures and algorithms.

Real Estate Investment/Development and Property Management

Full-Stack Web Development

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Psychology