Jan 2023 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Leading the Engineering Experience (EngX) team at LinkedIn, building tools and processes that increase developer scale and productivity globally.
• Chair, Intern Plagiarism Committee 2020-
• Chair, REACH Hiring Committee 2022-

Sep 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I lead LinkedIn's Horizontal UI Engineering team for web & mobile, and Accessibility Engineering. We build the system of reusable UI components for use across the entire LinkedIn ecosystem, and automated tooling & reporting to help engineers write accessible code the first time.
• Chair, Intern Plagiarism Committee 2020-
• Chair, REACH Hiring Committee 2022-

Sep 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• I lead LinkedIn's Horizontal UI Engineering team for web. We build the system of reusable UI components for use across the entire LinkedIn ecosystem.
• Core Council Member, Foundation Tech Women 2020-2021 (male ally)
• Chair, Intern Plagiarism Committee 2020-2021

Feb 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• With 18MM merchants in 216 countries, PayPal has incredible reach in the ecommerce space. I lead a couple engineering teams that build the next generation of shopping experiences, increasing conversion and optimizing AOV through exciting and engaging product experiences.

Nov 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Luis Obispo County, California, United States

• Led agile transformation for a technology group of nearly 30
• Created department goals and KPIs
• Recruiting and retaining top engineering talent
• Defined and managed complex cross-disciplinary projects
• Instituted an employee review and compensation adjustment process
• Managed a large team of engineers, designers, and QA, local and remote
• Dug into the codebase and diagnosed problems, built features, and found bugs.

Nov 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr

• I wear many hats at Magento, from people managing, to site architecture, to coding.
• Performed people manager tasks like annual reviews & compensation management,
• Led a globally-distributed team of engineers of varying abilities in the implementation of best practices (git, code style, pull requests, code review, testing),
• Reduced defect rate to near 0 by architecting robust solutions, introducing best practices and training engineers,
• Met 99.99% application uptime SLAs by leveraging automation and continuous integration as well as implementing weekly training for junior engineers,

Jan 2013 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• My tenure at eBay Enterprise is best characterized by two concepts: operational excellence and modernization.
• Led a globally-distributed team of engineers of varying abilities in the implementation of best practices (git, code style, pull requests, code review, testing),
• Reduced defect rate to near 0 by architecting robust solutions, introducing best practices and training engineers,
• Met 99.99% application uptime SLAs by leveraging automation and continuous integration as well as implementing weekly training for junior engineers,
• Led the charge to implement a security/vulnerability response protocol where there had been none before, vastly improving our response time to white-hat reports,
• Led the updates to our major web properties to be beautiful, modern, and responsive, improving conversion rates by 20%+.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · San Jose, California

• I am part of the team responsible for the x.com website, running on the LAMP/Drupal 7 stack.

Jun 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Emeryville, CA

• Responsible for CSAA.com, our flagship site. Most senior developer on staff and interim team lead.
• Manage staff developers, coordinating offshore resources, interviewing and hiring developers.
• Manage the relationship with consultants, including requirements gathering.
• Recommended the migration of CSAA.com to a new service provider in order to reduce operational cost and complexity.
• Launched ViaMagazine.com, implementing a continuous integration and automated deployment system.
• Sprint planning and execution, ranking the backlog by collaborating with lines of business and other interested stakeholders.
• Communicating release notes and estimates to stakeholders including the CTO and lines of business.
• Represent CSAA.com in the handling of incidents and incident management.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineers with regard to performance tuning and configuration

May 2009 – Nov 2009 · 6 mos

• Joined a now-renowned Drupal consultancy as full-time employee #1.
• Helped to build the company from a staff of 3 to >20 engineers through recruiting and interviewing.
• Supervised, managed, and trained junior developers.
• Trained and managed teams of up to 12 engineers on large-scale Drupal projects.
• Built the world’s first continuous integration and one-click deployment system for Drupal, parts of which are still in use today.
• Explored cutting-edge technology for research and practical purposes, including cloud and private clouds, automated headless Selenium testing, mobile, video transcoding, and Drupal scalability.
• Managed client expectations, planned sprints, executed testing and releases.
• Provided staff augmentation, including on-site augmentation and training in client locations from New York City to Long Beach.

Jul 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Joined a now-renowned Drupal consultancy as full-time employee #1.
• Helped to build the company from a staff of 3 to >20 engineers through recruiting and interviewing.
• Supervised, managed, and trained junior developers.
• Trained and managed teams of up to 12 engineers on large-scale Drupal projects.
• Built the world’s first continuous integration and one-click deployment system for Drupal, parts of which are still in use today.
• Explored cutting-edge technology for research and practical purposes, including cloud and private clouds, automated headless Selenium testing, mobile, video transcoding, and Drupal scalability.
• Managed client expectations, planned sprints, executed testing and releases.
• Provided staff augmentation, including on-site augmentation and training in client locations from New York City to Long Beach.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · Pleasant Hill, CA

• Managed all aspects of client relationships including initial contact, requirements gathering, expectation setting, estimation, time tracking, delivering, invoicing, paying employees, etc.
• Managed a team of 3 engineers to deliver websites for both small and large companies.
• Handled engineering & design duties.

Jan 2007 – Sep 2007 · 8 mos · Greater Sacramento

• Technical lead on the complete redesign and development of State-mandated media-rich training website.
• Built a custom PHP/MySQL CMS to comply with State regulations.
• Gathered requirements, built test plans, created estimates, and demo’d projects to management.
• Performed video recording, digitizing and transcoding for online viewing

Jan 2006 – Dec 2006 · 11 mos

• Responsible for the Sacramento cluster’s radio station properties’ websites: 1530AM KFBK, Talk 650 KSTE, My92.5 (Y92.5), and V101.1FM.
• Redesigned each of the 4 sites in my first 3 months.
• Trained staff to use the corporate CMS.
• Provided stakeholders with reports detailing the effectiveness of various online campaigns.
• Provided custom PHP, JavaScript and PHP to headquarters.
• Performed security and penetration testing to discover vulnerabilities

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs · Davis, CA

• Provided excellent service to Cedant’s web hosting customers.
• Debugged web site installations and related technology, including Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS.
• Had and used root access on the entire server farm (50,000+ accounts) to aid in technical troubleshooting over the phone or via email.
• Used a ticket tracking system to track incidents and provide reporting to management.
• Handled off-hours emails to technical support to ensure 24/7 availability of tech support for clients.