• Engineering leader with over four years of management experience.
  • JavaScript (React, Next.js), TypeScript, Python, PHP, SQL, Git, CSS (Less, Sass, PostCSS, Tailwind), and HTML.

Fastmail / Head of Engineering, US

October 2019–June 2024. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Senior Client Application Development Lead, October 2022–October 2023.
Client Application Development Lead, February 2022–October 2022.
Client Application Developer, October 2019–February 2022.
  • Managed and provided technical guidance to two global teams across three continents.
  • Instituted agile methodologies tailored to each team, improving sprint planning and execution.
  • Established organization-wide engineering principles, standardizing policy for engineering
    decision-making.
  • Contributed to implementation of integrations program and coordinated external developer engagement. Assisted with integrations with third-party services such as Bitwarden, 1Password,
    and PartnerStack.
  • Overhauled decision analytics platform by migrating to Metabase, enhancing data accessibility and analysis processes.
  • Assisted in migration of organization to knowledge management tools like Linear and Notion, improving information sharing and collaboration.
  • Optimized application build tooling, achieving deployment speeds up to five times faster.
  • Implemented application test suite in CI, enhancing code quality, expediting code review, and increasing deployment reliability.
  • Developed and delivered key features such as web-based RSVPs, a localization toolset, and a customer support request UI.

IntuitSolutions / Full Stack Developer

July 2018–October 2019. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Created integrations for client partners with BigCommerce and Shopify using PHP and React.
  • Developed themes for BigCommerce.

VCU Libraries / Digital Specialist

January 2016–July 2018. Richmond, Virginia.
  • Managed digitization unit: hired, supervised, and trained student employees. Managed budget for hiring and equipment.
  • Planned and executed digitization projects. Automated asset management and processing workflows.

Volunteering

Philadelphia JavaScript Club / Founder & Director
June 2022–present.
Organizing events, maintaining Remix website, and mentoring developers.

failbetter.com / Managing Editor
August 2016–present.
Publishing works for online-only literary journal founded in 2000. Created and currently maintaining Drupal deployment and Next.js submission management system.

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University
M.A.-Research, English. 2016

Virginia Commonwealth University
B.A., English, minor in French. 2014.