Will Hastings Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

Currently serving as the tech lead of the Core Performance team.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• In this role, I served as the tech lead engineer on a team developing multiple React design system component libraries and infrastructure for scaling UI component development. I provided technical and process guidance.
• Led team of 8 engineers to expand 2 design system React component libraries used to build dozens of products.
• Drove logo, iconography, and brand color updates on facebook.com. Planned tasks for 6 engineers. Led testing and launch of updates in collaboration with Product partners.
• Supported launch and feature buildout of Threads on web. Provided technical guidance on adding animations to core UI components. Enhanced UI components and APIs to enable new use cases.
• Mentored 3 senior engineers in effectively leading projects.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Most recently in this role, I worked on a team building reusable React UI components, libraries, and infra that empower product engineers to build high quality, consistent, and accessible user experiences. My greatest.
• Led expansion of the Meta brand design system component library to React Native. This contributed to 6x faster development of Meta accounts app in VR. Managed project for 6 engineers and implemented layering APIs.
• Drove > 100K increase in monthly active and engaged businesses. Architected, project managed, and implemented (with 2 other eng) a feature to guide businesses through setting up Facebook Pages. Utilized React, Relay.
• Drove 300K increase in Page fans by building Pages You May Like on facebook.com.
• Simplified creation of Meta-branded web apps by building a suite of page layout components in React.
• On-boarded and mentored multiple engineers and interns.

San Francisco, CA, US

• In this role, I worked on building Omada’s new mental health product using React Native and Rails. I also provided leadership across Omada's engineering department in the areas of accessibility and JavaScript.
• Unblocked public launch of Omada Mind mobile app. Developed launch-blocking features in React Native. Built a continuous integration pipeline in Jenkins for deploying to the App Store and to Google Play.
• Drove improvement in API development and client-side data management. Proposed and led the adoption of GraphQL across the stack. Utilized GraphQL Ruby and Apollo Client libraries.
• Mentored junior and mid-level engineers.

San Francisco, CA, US

• In this role, I led the modernization of our frontend architecture and best practices using React, Redux, and related technologies. I worked across our frontend and backend stacks to build user interfaces, define core.
• Decreased load times by 1-2 seconds per page by finding ways to reduce the amount of JavaScript downloaded.
• Enabled support of new health conditions in patient onboarding. Led the redesign of the patient onboarding flow as a React SPA powered by JSON configuration.
• Led accessibility overhaul of patient web app needed to secure major new customer. Managed multi-team project to reach WCAG Level A across all web UIs. Learned web accessibility in-depth and educated fellow engineers.
• Increased health coach efficiency by enabling custom coach workflows. Led project to build multi-facet filtering of patient messages and system prompts in Coach Inbox. Designed client-side multi-facet filtering.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• In this role, I developed new frontend features for Notifications on linkedin.com. I also contributed to an org-wide effort to improve site performance by leading the adoption of a more performant CSS architecture.
• Developed aggregated notifications features on linkedin.com. Implemented UIs with Ember.js components.
• Drove workstream to reduce CSS size to improve performance of linkedin.com. Led product teams in adopting the Block, Element, Modifier (BEM) CSS architecture.
• Represented frontend engineering on hiring committee. Advised committee on evaluating performance of frontend candidates.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• In this role, I worked on the team building the web style and component libraries for the LinkedIn design system. Our libraries were used across linkedin.com and other major LinkedIn web properties. I developed styles.
• Increased adoption of design system patterns in redesign of linkedin.com. Proposed and drove creation of an Ember.js design system component library.
• Implemented styles for several core components in the LinkedIn design system library. These were adopted across linkedin.com and several other company sites.

San Francisco, California, US

Assisted students with projects and helped teach Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and Backbone.Improved course curriculum through writing material, recording screencasts, and givinglectures.Contributed to internal Rails/Backbone app for helping students find jobs.

Oakland, California, US

• In this role, I developed web features for nonprofits, universities, and small businesses using PHP, MySQL, and the Drupal content management system. I also contributed to the development and initial release of the.
• Unblocked initial release of Kalabox, a Mac-based app for creating development environments for PHP-based websites. Developed core features using Node.js, Knockout.js, Vagrant, and VirtualBox.
• Contributed to Kalatheme, an open-source Drupal theme for building responsive websites, that was used in many of Kalamuna's most successful projects.

Ruby, Rails, & Javascript

Associate Of Science (As), Web Programming

High School Diploma