Mar 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pewaukee, Wisconsin, United States

• Generalist serving as a tech lead on twitter.com. Predominantly working on design system related matters. One of the primary leaders and culture builders within broader web community at Twitter. Passionate about building dev tools & improving developer productivity. Learn it, improve it, teach it.

Apr 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Spent some time as EM, some time as staff eng
• Led migration from single-tenant Java solution to multi-tenant Node.js solutions projecting at a 75% reduction in cloud/tooling spending
• Led engineering and worked with stakeholders to achieve GDPR and CCPA compliance
• Designed and implemented “Platform” abstraction around Browser/Node/React Native so the exact same redux code we run in our web and mobile apps could be effectively tested in Node.js environment
• Drove adoption of GraphQL and TypeScript
• Implemented new multi-tenant web app to administration communities which enabled visibility into trolls or scammers across our communities in one place.
• Designed and implemented test harnesses for all of our web services run as part of CI.
• Designed and implemented Puppeteer based UI tests for web properties run as part of CI.
• Introduced visual regression testing for web properties run as part of CI.
• Drove adoption of automated monitoring tools and metric to be notified if something might be malfunctioning as our communities traffic grew 500%
• Built a fun, collaborative, empowering, and accountable team culture within our fully remote team
• Mentored team members, coaching them to broaden their understanding of SDLC and the blurring line between engineering and ops, encouraged them to do more with less, and to utilize automation to empower ourselves to ship code without relying on a manual QA process.
• Primary owner of all things tech in Healthline communities. Engaged with all parts of the business and all relevant stakeholders to balance tech concerns with other business drivers such as number of ad impressions, volume of analytics, etc.
• Designed system to ban user from communities and prevent re-entry
• Personally review all API code to ensure data is handled with care

Mar 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs · Madison, WI

• Co-creator of StencilJS, a React like toolkit for building high performance web solutions using web components
• Primary engineer on ionic-app-scripts, with nearly 11 million downloads since 2016.
• Team lead on open source core team with hundreds of thousands of lines of open source code
• Public facing engineer representing company on social media, Github, meet-ups, speaking at conferences, etc.
• Mentored less senior engineers on architecture strategies, design considerations, etc.
• Re-designed the Ionic build and release process to remove unnecessary third party deps and ensure Ionic works properly with Angular ahead-of-time compliation
• Wrote 6 blog posts each averaging over 100K views
• #2 contributor to the primary framework project, and #2 overall contributor to the rest of the company’s open source offering as of April 2018
• Designed and implemented app build process for Ionic 2 and 3
• Designed and implemented router and lazy loading design in Ionic 2 and 3
• Designed push/pop navigation system in Ionic 2, 3 and 4
• Extended @angular/router package to meet Ionic’s routing needs
• Designed “Platform” abstraction to enable Ionic components to seamlessly work with React, Angular and Vue components.
• Implemented Modal, Popover, Action Sheet, Toast, Alert, and the rest of the overlays in Ionic 2, 3 and 4.
• Implemented side menu in Ionic 4
• Landed non-trivial PRs into @angular/cli, @angular/router projects

Nov 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Milwaukee Area

• 8 months as lead full stack engineer in newly formed emerging technologies division
• 8 months as lead engineer in newly formed mobile apps division
• Built web services to abstract SAP APIs for inventory checking, calculating international taxes, processing currency changes, etc.
• Built web service to authenticate users using OAuth 2
• Led adoption of Node.js for backend usage
• Designed and implemented CD system on top of Azure Node.js tools
• Implemented cross-platform mobile app for inspecting manufacturing equipment
• Implemented cross-platform mobile app with performing lock-out tag-out procedures

Sep 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Milwaukee

• Technical lead for a consultancy working closely with stakeholders/customer to deliver quality software to fortune 100 companies. Predominantly doing spring and hibernate java development with JSP front-end

Aug 2009 – Sep 2013 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Brookfield, WI

• Internal start-up within established company building wifi based RTLS systems for staff duress and asset tracking. Designed real-time systems using open source Java technologies and built HTML5 interfaces utilizing web sockets, css3, javascript and responsive design. Immense experience using spring, hibernate, java, tomcat, Angular, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), & Bootstrap

Jan 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Worked with an awesome team building MyPath.com and Manpowerjobs.com. Predominantly doing spring, java, and hibernate development with Adobe Flex front-ends