Thomas Stang Email & Phone Number

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 systems implementation with internal teams and agency partners.• 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 direct oversight.• 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: Elevated senior and staff engineers through mentorship and sponsorship, fostering architectural decision-making and enhancing team autonomy across initiatives.• 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: Partnered with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and external agencies, to deliver robust solutions and enhance communication and alignment.• 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Established clear engineering workflows and documentation standards to improve efficiency and promote best practices across teams.• 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Ensured high standards for performance and scalability through detailed architectural planning, rigorous testing, and comprehensive documentation, setting the foundation for future migrations and feature development.

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 strategy.• 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, AWS, and GitHub Actions to build efficient, reliable deployment pipelines.• Built and optimized CI/CD workflows, automating deployment processes, build workflows, and tasks to save developer time and increase team velocity.• Designed and implemented event-based caching infrastructure, revalidation workflows, and cache warming automation, improving site stability and overall performance.• Championed engineering best practices, including monorepo organization, design system innovations, and React/Next.js standards, ensuring maintainability and consistency across teams.• Partnered with teams across Vox Media to provide technical guidance on projects such as newsletters, ad integration, and SEO improvements, fostering trust and alignment across disciplines.• Fostered team growth by delegating key projects and providing mentorship. Empowered engineers to deepen their codebase understanding and take ownership of key features.

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 for all Group Nine Media brands. As engineering manager I focused on technical leadership and developing engineering talent while continuing to work on the core architecture and provide high impact technical contributions.• 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• Responsible for onboarding multiple new-hire engineers onto the team as well as onboarding engineers from other teams onto our tech stack

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 all Group Nine Media brands. As a senior member of the team I help to set best practices and guidelines while working on the core architecture and feature development of our new platform.• 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. • Created a code scaffolding/generation tool to both save time engineers spend on tedious tasks and simplify the process of following best practices

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, marketing and sales teams• 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• Leveraged cron based AWS lambda functions to trigger daily sales report data e-mails• Wrote scripts for generating user, product and sales reports used by finance to develop our business plan• Provided mentorship for our summer engineering intern

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 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, marketing and sales teams• 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• Leveraged cron based AWS lambda functions to trigger daily sales report data e-mails• Wrote scripts for generating user, product and sales reports used by finance to develop our business plan• Provided mentorship for our summer engineering intern

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 code in our PHP API necessary to support new features.• 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 PHP back-end (Silex/Doctrine/MySQL) with an Angular front-end (Angular 4/RxJs/SCSS).

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, Redux, Apollo, Node and PostgreSQL/GraphQL. Responsible for architecting end to end aspects of the application from the ground up—building, designing and styling UI to meet UX design specifications.

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