Sep 2021 – Jan 2022 · 4 mos

• Leading multiple engineering teams focused on Billing; including subscription based, usage based and trade compliance. Our mission is to build customer trust with reliable and intuitive billing experiences
• In this role, I:
• Set direction, systems, and processes to reduce friction at every level of the organization.
• Mentor directors, managers, and tech leads
• Work with stakeholders across GitHub and the Billing engineering org to ensure that Billing is working on the right priorities that delivers the highest ROI. We balance between projects focused on improving engineering velocity and projects that directly delivers customer value.
• Foster a culture focused on open communication and high trust, where team members can do their best work.
• Recruit and retain talent.

Dec 2020 – Sep 2021 · 9 mos

• Leading an organization of 50 engineers and leads. The organization is composed of 3 main pillars:
• Public Interfaces. Builds and supports platforms that allow access to and integration with GitHub. This includes GitHub APIs, GitHub Apps, and GitHub Events.
• UI Platform. Builds front-end UI frameworks for internals and external customers.
• Frameworks. Creates paved paths for various languages for internal teams. Supports the monoliths performance and stability.
• In this role I was accountable for the overall health of the platform interfaces org. From the health of the services we provide, to future vision and roadmapping, to team culture and people engagement.
• While in this role, I also worked closely with principal engineers to solve and plan for architectural challenges. And I Initiated and led an engineering design review process, focused on ensuring teams can get feedback from subject matter experts across the company early on when working on a new architecture.

Mar 2020 – Dec 2020 · 9 mos

• Most of the world’s code lives on GitHub than anywhere else, and the Code Intelligence Org is responsible for making this code easy to understand, search, and navigate through.
• The Code Intelligence Org operates on a large scale and a significant infrastructure budget. In this role, I worked closely with my leads to navigate uncertainty and make effective trade-off decisions. We solved some interesting engineering and product challenges optimizing for usability, effectiveness, features, scalability, and cost.
• While in this role, I also worked on turning around the culture in the organization and creating a sense of trust, cohesion and engagement. This involved setting the right team processes and systems, hiring the right people, and performance management.

Dec 2019 – Mar 2020 · 3 mos

• The world’s OSS supply chain lives on GitHub. It’s where OSS is envisioned, communities are created, the code is written, built, tested, published and consumed. OSS needs to be created and consumed in a way that we can all trust. The Security & Compliance Products Org is responsible for building products that makes Software on GitHub secure.
• While in this role, I was responsible for integrating new teams after acquisitions to GitHub, and setting them up for success. This ranged from setting the right systems and processes to onboarding and training.

Aug 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

• We develop the tools developers use to stay productive and collaborate on GitHub. This includes:
• Attention Management and Notifications
• Project management
• Search and Navigation
• Discoverability and the Dashboard
• GitHub Desktop
• Understanding the user and representing them well throughout the site
• Managing Teams and Organizations
• Workflows that help users get closer to code

Oct 2017 – Aug 2018 · 10 mos

• Senior Manager of the “Me” team. Me’s primary persona is the individual Developer. By identifying a Developer's core competencies, interests, and aspirations -- we're able to meaningfully connect the individual to relevant entities in the GitHub entity space.
• Responsibilities include:
• Manage a team of managers to set the vision, mission, and roadmaps for their teams and to consistently deliver results and keep their teams engaged.
• Create an environment of trust, where people are working towards a common goal and are comfortable holding each other accountable
• Iterate on our hiring process and interview candidates to build strong diverse and cohesive teams.
• Build autonomous teams, while providing support and direct coaching when necessary.

Nov 2015 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Leading a team that focuses on:
• Lowering technical barriers to choosing GitHub
• Winning, through great user experiences, our Enterprise Customers and Admins

Dec 2010 – Jan 2018 · 7 yrs 1 mo

• I founded the investor & TechStars backed startup Sandglaz. Sandglaz was an agile project management app elegantly designed to combine simplicity with powerful collaboration features. I particularly enjoy the process of refining an idea and a product to fit a target customer. I enjoy leading a team to bring a vision to life.
• My accomplishments and responsibilities included:
• Conceived and launched Sandglaz, the #1 rated task management app on the Google CWS in 2012.
• Hired, built, mentored and led a cross-functional team of designers, developers, and marketers.
• Grew the customer base to ~70,000 users in a highly competitive market.
• Led Sandglaz through TechStars Seattle 2012. Presented on demo day on stage to 500+ investors.
• Raised $618K USD in a seed round.
• Designed the product experience. Planned and prioritized feature development.
• Provided technical and architectural direction and decisions to the team. Evaluated new technologies.
• Instilled the following practices & patterns across team members: Test Driven Development, Integration Testing, Continuous Integration, MVC, MVP, DRY, API Driven Development, Agile Development, Responsive Design, UX.
• Fostered a culture of transparency, autonomy, customer love, collaboration, and constant improvement
• and learning as individuals and as a team.
• Identified and implemented funnel optimization opportunities: user onboarding experience, A/B testing, messaging, content marketing, email marketing, social media, SEO.
• Company budgeting, tax, and legal. Received more than $160K CAD in SR&ED (Gov’t research rebate).

Nov 2010 – Apr 2011 · 5 mos

• Ruby on Rails and Java web development

Mar 2007 – Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Introduced agile methodologies to the organization, enabling the transition from a plan driven process to an iterative process
• Led several projects as a scrum master. Managed stand-ups, sprint planning meetings, review meetings and retrospectives. Encouraged TDD and working in cross-functional teams
• Initiated, designed and implemented a new AJAX-based graphical user interface for the web client
• Re-engineered an Excel based client increasing its robustness, reliability, maintainability and usability
• Ported C-based client applications to Windows Vista, which involved extensive research and prototyping to enable the use of UAC through elevation monikers
• Resolved ongoing issues and defects, often provided solutions to problems that have eluded resolution by others

Jul 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Developed semiconductor tests for both wafer and package. This includes creating the test plan, designing the device interface board and programming the ATE to produce production tests that maximize test coverage and test speed.

May 2003 – May 2004 · 1 yr

• Built an in-house test equipment and combined it with a Rack and Stack System to automate production tests for packaged semiconductors