Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

• Led the research and discovery phase for a new HSA Investing feature in the Healthy Benefits+ app by creating spike tickets, technical docs, and integration assessments to support third-party API and vendor evaluation
• Created and rolled out a standardized release notes process with a writing guide, templates, and examples to improve clarity and consistency across all app releases
• Chosen by senior leadership to lead the weekly engineering team standup and revamped the format to include demos, lightning talks, and team-driven topics, increasing engagement and cross-squad knowledge sharing

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Offering 1:1 coaching services for personal brand growth and leadership
• Creating digital products to help software engineers elevate their people and leadership skills
• Building Feature Cue, a B2B SaaS app for prioritizing and analyzing user feedback
• Writing about the human side of software engineering to help engineers lead and grow in Besides Code, a weekly newsletter
• Built Agendaful, a B2B SaaS app aimed at streamlining 1:1 meeting agendas and sparking team growth

May 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

• Selected to be one of department’s first Technical Leads, supervising 3 mid-level and senior developers and leading stand-ups, sprint planning, product backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings
• Contributed to roadmap and planning meetings with department leaders, sharing team updates, providing time and effort estimates, and delivering technical guidance on upcoming features and projects
• Conducted regular one-on-ones with team developers, communicating project updates, supporting development tasks, and serving as mentor and coach
• Managed and contributed to year-long project, integrating ServiceNow ticketing services into Security Center, with near real-time updates using Snowflake, AWS Lambda, Apollo GraphQL, and reducing time to update tickets by 66%
• Accepted into Deepwatch Mentorship Program as mentee, enhancing leadership skills and proposing department-wide program to increase customer knowledge for developers and enrich customer experience in Security Center

Jan 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

• Built SaaS apps that improve collaboration, communication, and productivity for build teams
• Led frontend development of the web app
• Advised on tech stack and product features

Dec 2021 – Sep 2022 · 9 mos · Remote

• Served in dual role as Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer, balancing leadership and hands-on development responsibilities
• Managed 4 direct reports, meeting weekly to mentor and coach, foster professional development and high performance through collaborative meeting agendas
• Implemented growth journals for direct reports, facilitating goal setting and progress tracking to drive continuous improvement and career development
• Participated in semi-annual zone and chapter calibration meetings with department leaders and people business partners, providing feedback on engineers and presenting performance reviews for direct reports
• Led small group of engineers to build customizable UI theme for web app, improving user experience for customers

Nov 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

• Assisted in planning sprints, upcoming projects, and quarterly roadmaps, meeting regularly with Engineering Manager and Product Manager
• Partnered with recruiters and engineering leaders, interviewing candidates, reviewing code challenges, and presenting job offers, while delivering feedback to improve recruitment, hiring, and onboarding practices
• Mentored junior engineers with goal setting, code reviews, and pair programming, conducting routine 1:1s
• Led high-priority project with short timeline, adding Sandbox section to core product, building custom charts in D3, and creating React components with bespoke CSS animations

Nov 2016 – Nov 2020 · 4 yrs · Remote

• Oversaw hiring efforts for Frontend Engineers, creating job description, writing code challenge, utilizing Greenhouse to review and score applications, conducting first-round interviews, and preparing onsite interview documents for team
• Onboarded new engineering hires, setting up development environments, introducing codebase, and teaching team procedures
• Managed codebases for Glamsquad websites, including main booking site and e-commerce shop, focusing on code quality and web performance
• Improved page speed of core website by 42% through CSS and JavaScript optimizations while managing remote team of 4 engineers in redesign of company’s website, conducting code reviews, updating company branding, and winning Employee of the Quarter award for contributions
• Supervised and led development of e-commerce website for Glamsquad hair and makeup products using Shopify Plus and Liquid, building 90% of code to generate funnels for registration, shipping, payments, and checkout, and receiving praise from Head of Engineering and Co-Founders

Aug 2013 – Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• Agency Labs
• Developed websites for local businesses, including redesign of Visit CT website and initial launch of Understood.org
• Routehappy
• Led frontend development for Routehappy Hub, a product attribute platform that helped airlines organize and deliver rich content about products, collaborating with VP of Product and Backend Engineer
• TotalHousehold
• Converted designs from Lead Designer into AngularJS code, improving homepage and adding new features to website

May 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Norwalk, Connecticut

• • Led frontend development, creating websites, microsites, and promotional apps for BIC, Campbell’s, and Malibu

Dec 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Hired Junior Developer, leading onboarding and training, managing day-to-day tasks, and reviewing code
• Launched first version of mobile website, overseeing a cross-functional team
• Led migration of company blog to WordPress, increasing traffic by more than 500%
• Developed new platform for event planning section, featuring more than 100 events

Dec 2007 – Dec 2010 · 3 yrs

• Hired as second full-time developer
• Developed Press Kit page, used by over 10,000 performers
• Created database-driven system to manage leads for Sales Department, developing console application that contacts sales leads using multiple email campaigns

Sep 2005 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos · Briarcliff Manor, New York

• • Taught Spanish II, Spanish III Regents, Spanish III Honors, and Spanish IV.

Sep 2003 – May 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos · Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

• • Taught Intermediate Spanish.

Sep 2002 – Jun 2003 · 9 mos · East Boston, Massachusetts

• • Taught Spanish II and AP Spanish.