Enthusiastic and communicative engineer, mentor, and leader with over a decade of experience understanding and solving business problems with software. Purpose-driven and passionate about using technology to improve lives and outcomes.
Curious by nature, cross-functional by habit, growth-oriented by choice.
Selected Experience
Lead architect and engineer for Hearst Magazines' Consumer Commerce division.
- Architecting a scalable commerce platform for diverse established brands
- Building excellent, high-converting marketplace customer experiences
- Hiring and mentoring a team of efficient, humble, talented people
Architected, built, and maintained ecommerce systems for internal and customer-facing use, working closely with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to solve problems with software. Served as Front-End Architect and Node.js SME while managing direct reports and mentoring engineers of all skill levels across the stack. Contributed to department-level engineering standards, SDLC process, interviewing guidelines, and platform improvements.
Established robust unit and integration testing for legacy and greenfield systems. Refactored legacy systems into modern distributed scalable services. Mentored junior developers and participated in SRE and site architecture discussions.
Designed and executed multimedia projects, including visual brand + development + SEO for local businesses, audio engineering and music production for commercial release, and creation of freeware and open source utilities.
Maintained and improved enterprise ecommerce systems, with a focus on 1stdibs' B2C messaging platform. Redesigned, refactored, and modernized legacy apps in React; built a new multi-param search and filtering experience around Apache Solr.
Developed web-native educational games using HTML5 Canvas + Audio APIs, including a PTSD detection training tool used by the American Nursing Association and ADHD therapy games for use in clinical trials at Duke.
Managed a team of ten Jr. + Sr. IT support staff, including scheduling and operations responsibilities. Provided hardware and software support, diagnosis, and repair on escalated cases.