Overview
Experienced Front End Engineer with a passion for building useful products & user-friendly UIs.
Excited about products that delight and help the world.
In the past, I have studied Photojournalism, served deep-dish pizza, set up breakfast in a five-star hotel, and driven forklifts in a warehouse.
What I’ve been up to recently…
- Enjoying the first year of parenthood (Owen) 🐤
- Training for my 2nd Marathon! (CIM)
- Watching daily as AI continues to accelerate in all directions (Wow!)
Experience
Front End Engineer
ReadMe
Oct 2022 - Present
Helping build better API docs
- Building out new Developer Dashboard feature set for better data-driven API and Doc usage insights
- Tackling tech debt and improving performance of existing codebase including migrating legacy Angular code into React
- Continuing to improve and build on UI library and components
Senior Software Engineer, Front End
Slack
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
Helping make more teams successful
Activation / Expansion team
- Developed onboarding features focused on driving growth of new users and teams to product with 12M+ daily active users
- Led and assisted on 30+ different A/B experiments and results-driven feature launches
- Collaborated daily with engineers, engineering managers, product managers, data scientists, and designers across organization of 2,400+ employees
- Served on incident response and on-call rotation for business-critical sign-in and sign-up areas of the product
- Produced and reviewed high-quality code that was unit tested, modular, performant, and accessible
- Mentored and supported junior engineers
Senior Front End Engineer (Lead)
Corax
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
- Led the Front End team in supporting 2 web applications + company website in all Front End related endeavors (UI, UX, Data Visualizations, and more)
- Collaborated on API rewrite project to migrate Ruby on Rails to Python Django framework
- Coordinated on product customer support
Front End Engineer
Corax
Jun 2016 - Jan 2019
- Guided development of Front End app components in React + Redux for 2 web applications (customer-facing app and internal admin tools app)
- Steered refactor of two Front End codebases to React + Redux from Backbone.js
- Established error tracking and management across team tech stacks using Sentry
- Implemented i18n language support using Amazon Translate
- Worked closely with the Data Science team on Front End data visualizations using D3.js and Chart.js
- Collaborated on the design of all UI/UX mock-ups, site iconography, and brand assets alongside in-house Graphic Designer
- Developed external CMS website (WordPress) and assisted in the design of marketing, email, and brand materials using Postmark and Pardot
Front End Engineer / Web Developer (Contract)
Monday Envelope
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
- Developed and architected an improved single-page beta application using Angular (1.4+) and existing REST API
- Designed fresh and improved web app UI page layouts in Sketch App
- Reduced deployment time by improving staging and production workflows
Desktop Support - Dept. of Technology
City and County of San Francisco
Jul 2014 - Dec 2015
- Implemented Support Guide documentation and SharePoint internal site for City Wide IT Administrator use
- Helped create departmental Communication Policies for Citywide communication
- Led mini-training sessions for Citywide IT Admins and End-Users
- Assisted City employees with e-mail migration from IBM Lotus Notes to Microsoft Office365
- Microsoft Outlook, Office365, Lync, OneDrive, SharePoint support
Software Development Intern
ZenVault
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
- Added and updated minor features within existing code base for Medical Records website/application
- Employed MVC software architectural pattern using Java, JavaServer pages, HTML, and properties files