Feb 2023 – Oct 2023 · 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

• I led the Gatsby team through an acquisition and integration within Netlify. We integrated the Gatsby team successfully into Netlify and launched the general availability of a net-new Netlify product: Netlify Connect, which helps differentiate Netlify's product in the market and deepens the enterprise focus.

Aug 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

• I joined the Gatsby team as an engineer on the open-source team and 11th employee and left it as the VP of Product & Engineering with an honorary co-founder title. We built an excellent team, an excellent product, and grew revenue from 40K to $5M ARR. We led the team through an acquisition of a new product we created (Valhalla which became Netlify Connect: https://www.netlify.com/platform/connect/) and found a long-term home for Gatsby at Netlify.

Feb 2021 – Aug 2021 · 6 mos

Dec 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

May 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Omaha, NE

• Serve as a technical consultant to assist teams, companies, and organizations by assisting and leading developmental efforts, improving in-house developer knowledge, and establishing best practices

May 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr · Omaha, NE

• Serve as a technical consultant to assist teams, companies, and organizations by assisting and leading developmental efforts, improving in-house developer knowledge, and establishing best practices. Specifically:
• Developed a responsive web component to aid in messaging other users within a company (PolymerJS, Firebase, NodeJS)
• Implemented a custom authentication solution (Auth0)
• Improved build tooling performance, speed, and effectiveness (Gulp)
• Implemented bug fixes, features, and performance improvements in a hybrid application (Cordova, AngularJS)

Apr 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Omaha, NE

• I began my career at Union Pacific, honing my front-end developer expertise and knowledge by creating mobile/hybrid applications, creating an application generator, and building an internal open-source component library (a la Bootstrap) and associated tooling. Specifically:
• Implemented a next-generation application generator (Yeoman, Gulp)
• Created and spoke at a series of developer workshops and information sharing events
• Served as technical product manager (i.e. developer expert) for AngularJS
• Implemented a number of internal NodeJS plugins/tools

Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 · 11 mos · Omaha, NE

• Assisted in creation of responsive AngularJS component library
• Designed and developed Cordova survey application
• Spoke at the annual state of the union for new technologies

May 2013 – Apr 2014 · 11 mos · Omaha, NE

• Developed full stack applications using AngularJS & SpringMVC
• Implemented new features in internal issue tracker
• Assisted in development of internal jQuery Mobile framework