Advised clients on technology selection, project planning, and team management. Supported non-profits in improving performance.• Drove language selection for MVP.• Trained in sprint planning and tracking.• Assisted in annual review process and goal-setting for team members.

Managed delivery of content metadata for TV shows and movies streamed in 50+ countries, to partners, including Apple, Amazon, Xbox, and Comcast, with teams of contract and FTE employees.• Rescued failed software, cutting time between crashes from 2 hours to 4+ weeks, eliminating 90% of incidents.• Coordinated QA initiative with remote teams to automate end-to-end integration testing in an untested codebase, reducing escaped bugs to 0 and passing Apple’s stringent quality tests.• Collaborated with DevOps to move AWS cloud app from 4+ hour bi-monthly manual deployment to 5-minute automated staging and production deploys.• Spearheaded process to include engineering contractors in architecture and business review, mentoring, regular 1:1s, and coaching, reducing turnover to 1 team member in 2 years.• Increased team diversity through clear DEI initiatives in job listing creation, posting, and interview process.• Wrote and deployed features and bug fixes for PHP and Python ETL applications, contributing up to 20% of sprint effort; scripted build/release/deploy and convenience tools in bash.

Developed, with a team of 4 FTE, ad tag-delivered Web, and native advertising features; migrated codebase from Java and MySQL on AWS to Javascript workers and NoSQL key-value store on CDN edge.• Refactored vanilla Javascript client-side code, streamlining payload size by 60%.• Guided rewrite of Java ad server code into Javascript Web Workers on Cloudflare CDN, reducing response time for ad payload queries to less than 10ms.• Introduced a new testing toolset to allow end-to-end testing of ES Modules natively, instead of transpiling into CommonJS Modules or IIFEs, decreasing escaped bug risk by more than 30%.

Synacor provided Portal, E-mail, and Identity Management services to Fortune 500 clients in the media industry. Promoted from Principal Engineer to Team Lead.• Drove sprint rollover from 30% to 0% in 2 months by tracking, improving estimations, breaking work down into more granular stories, and coaching developers.• Implemented search marketing code delivering targeted results to Android users within a 20ms budget, driving $1mm in revenue annually.• Teamed with Product and UX to introduce early technical, a11y, and i18n validation of proposed work, improving product cycle time by 10%.• Collaborated with teams sharing a platform to create a joint roadmap, eliminating duplicated work and saving up to 6 developer weeks per sprint while migrating server-side to Go and Node.• Coached, carried out 1:1s with developers, matching diverse team members to mentors within the company and driving 2 promotions during team members’ subsequent review periods.• Led management of 7 Sev1 incidents, including live bugs & outages affecting millions of page views and associated ad revenue, across teams & products, both during the workday & overnight.

Synacor provided Portal, E-mail, and Identity Management services to Fortune 500 clients in the media industry. As a Principal Engineer, I developed code throughout the Web stack.• Launched Portal product for Fortune 10 client serving up to 32 million pageviews/day.• Engineered core in-browser data layer & reducer for finance-related features in React, enabling more than 100,000 users to create and customize stock portfolio trackers.• Developed new features using React, PHP, and Backbone/JQuery, including comprehensive test coverage using Jasmine/Sinon and PHPUnit, gaining 100% feature parity with the competition.• Mentored junior developers.• Provided code reviews and ensured high code quality throughout the organization.

Codesmith is a 12-week programming bootcamp in Los Angeles teaching full stack JavaScript and software engineering. Helped students at leading 12-week software academy succeed through lectures, problem sets, hands-on assistance, and mentoring.• Demonstrated algorithm, data structure approaches multiple times weekly, whiteboarding and holding Q&As on engineering challenges• Taught classes in SQL/NoSQL databases, Agile processes, technological approaches to SEO, Bash customization & productivity• Led regular code reviews with students, to provide debugging direction, refactoring recommendations, and train code review techniques• Mentored students one-on-one, to clarify technological questions, such as async processes and DOM manipulation, resolve team conflicts

Directed development of e-commerce platforms and integration of third-party tax management, billing, and marketing automation APIs with Web site and ERP systems for a rapidly-growing startup. • Supervised local & remote dev teams, championing Agile processes & training in JIRA, improving & formalizing project timeline estimations, improving feature cycle time by more than 30%.• Wrote PHP Twilio integration to distribute pre-recorded information via phone tree & text to a nationwide sales force, reducing live tech support needs by up to 8 hours per month.• Developed all homepage content and launched more than 30 new products on e-commerce site, using HTML, CSS, jQuery, and Magento.• Hired & onboarded 2 additional PMs and 5 remote and local developers.

Managed remote dev teams using Agile SCRUM, Kanban to develop and support content platforms serving more than 3mm pageviews daily.• Wrote Javascript ad content-targeting code, using vBulletin API, allowing 40% increase in ad impressions on forums.• Drove code quality initiatives bringing 90+% unit test coverage and speeding development by up to 30%; used Jenkins to monitor coverage.• Oversaw crisis response to attacks on Web site, including hardening site vs. XSS and SQL Injection attacks, and deploying DDOS defenses.• Led business strategy for multiple publications, researching user needs; developing feature plans and content objectives; building buy-in from editorial team; breaking down strategy into epics and stories; inspiring engineering teams to execute on goals; and QAing results on launch, reversing steep declines in readership in two major publications and driving a third to more than 1mm daily page views.