An engineering leader, backend developer, and all-around enthusiast who’s been building scalable services and nurturing talented teams for 9+ years. Currently serving as an engineering manager in MarTech, enabling millions in revenue through record-breaking promotional campaigns and customer lifecycle communications. Doing it all in service of happier humans.

Experience

Technical Lead (Engineering Manager), MarTech Fullscript (Mar 2022-Present)

  • Engineering Leadership
  • Hiring
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Strategic Planning
  • Change Management
  • Communication
  • Project Management
  • Onboarding
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Served as manager, mentor, and team lead to 6 rockstar engineers ranging in experience from junior–senior. Hired and onboarded 3 engineers to round out the team’s capacity and skillset. Campaigned for (and won!) well-deserved promotions for 2 of my direct reports.
  • Architected and coordinated an organization-wide migration to a new cross-channel marketing platform, enabling millions in revenue to-date through record-breaking promotional campaigns and customer lifecycle communications.
  • Coached my team in Agile values and methodologies, bringing delivery timelines down from 8+ weeks to 2 weeks by introducing concepts like Sprints, Backlog Refinement, and continually inspecting & adapting our process.
  • Fostered the learning & growth of my direct reports by: Working together to set learning targets; connecting them with mentors for their specific interests; cultivating their leadership skills by giving them opportunities to drive projects start-to-finish; and finding every opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments.
  • Developed a team roadmap that balanced high-impact product deliverables with at least 15% of development effort put towards technical initiatives such as technical debt, keeping developers motivated, inspired, and working at a sustainable pace.

Technical Lead, Identity Prodigy Education (Aug 2021-Feb 2022)

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Strategic Planning
  • Mentorship
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Kafka
  • GraphQL
  • Legal Compliance
  • Diversity/Equity/Inclusion (DEI)
  • Planned and championed a backlog of technical initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and maintainability of a Rails monolith that served 5M+ daily sessions
  • Specified, prototyped and guided teammates through an effort to leverage GraphQL caching, lowering database costs for 1.5M+ hourly requests to a Rails API by ~50%
  • Collaborated with security and legal teams to architect and develop a solution to bring a Rails monolith into compliance with a piece of legislation that impacted 7M+ monthly users
  • Commanded responses to production incidents, ensuring an uptime of 99.99%+ across 3 Rails-based services
  • Continued DEI advocacy by collaborating with an external consultant on a company-wide survey, and campaigning to add a full-time DEI position to the hiring plan

Backend Engineer II, Identity Prodigy Education (Jan 2020-Jul 2021)

  • Ruby on Rails
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Kafka
  • Terraform
  • Diversity/Equity/Inclusion (DEI)
  • Integrated OAuth/OIDC functionality and additional features within a Rails monolith that supported 5M+ daily sessions
  • Defined and established boundaries around the Identity domain by building a Rails API that served 13M+ daily requests
  • Implemented a Kafka producer and consumer that operated at a scale of 100M+ monthly messages, enabling business intelligence and event-driven communication with other services
  • Advocated for DEI by consulting on product decisions, running DEI retrospectives, and publishing DEI resources

Agile Coach Prodigy Education (Jun 2017–Dec 2019)

  • Agile Methodologies
  • Mentorship
  • Change Management
  • Diversity/Equity/Inclusion (DEI)
  • Transitioned from developer to Agile Coach over the span of a year, coaching 3 infrastructure/DevOps teams towards Agile maturity, with emphasis on developer satisfaction and productivity
  • Transformed Prodigy's Agile practices and culture by leading dozens of group training sessions, individually mentoring over 15 part- and full-time Scrum Masters, and orchestrating company-wide initiatives like quarterly team health checks
  • Co-founded an employee-organized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee; organized a company-wide DEI pulse survey that would lay the foundation for regular advocacy work across the organization

Full Stack Developer Prodigy Education (Apr 2016–Dec 2017)

  • GraphQL
  • Node.js
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Backbone.js
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Formed a task force to architect and engineer a GraphQL gateway; defined GraphQL best-practices and business domains, and created resolvers that would scale to support 150K+ concurrent user sessions
  • Maintained 5+ Node.js microservices and a PHP monolith, adding user-facing features, addressing security issues, standardizing API endpoints, and enabling automated testing
  • Scaled up Prodigy's engineering culture by implementing best-practices for documentation, releases, code reviews and source control across 5+ teams and 20+ microservices

Full Stack Developer Fluid Media (May 2014-Mar 2016)

  • Ruby on Rails
  • PostgreSQL
  • NGINX
  • Backbone.js
  • HTML/ERB/haml
  • CSS/Sass
  • jQuery
  • Bootstrap
  • Prototyped an application designed to collect tax-related information and generate reports, including visual dashboards and pre-filled tax form PDFs
  • Created a browser-based flooring design tool, leveraging a contemporary stack (jQuery, Backbone.js, CSS) to achieve an intuitive UX for complex interactions like snapping and drag-and-drop
  • Onboarded a co-op student, integrating the student onto the team with a carefully managed workload and learning opportunities