
Senior Frontend Engineer
Mainstay · Full-time
Feb 2025 - Present
• 2 mos
Principal Frontend Engineer
Tread · Full-time
Mar 2024 - Jan 2025
• 11 mos• Appointed as one of the first-ever team leads in the company, assuming key management responsibilities from the CEO and VP of Engineering. Lead a cross-functional team of four frontend and backend engineers, facilitating agile ceremonies, and consistently ensuring that project goals and timelines are met.
• Introduced and implemented frontend testing frameworks, building the necessary infrastructure and promoting a culture of quality assurance among frontend engineers.
• Developed essential application features that aligned with customer and internal business needs, prioritizing user experience enhancements and playing a key role in securing multiple sales deals.
Skills: TypeScript · React.js

Senior Software Engineer
Heap · Full-time
May 2022 - Dec 2023
• 1 yr 8 mos• Contributed as a key member of Heap's Product-Led Growth (PLG) team, actively shaping and executing strategies to drive product adoption and user engagement.
• Guided Heap's Design System Working Group, leading initiatives to develop and promote Heap's component library to provide a more consistent, user-friendly, and accessible experience for Heap's users.
• Architected and developed an email content generation service that provided highly personalized data insights to customers, resulting in 60% open rates and 10% click-through rates.
• Championed the development and implementation of strategic paywall initiatives, proactively enforcing Heap's data usage standards and effectively distinguishing between Heap's free and paid plans. Achieved a substantial $200-300k/quarter increase in renewal and new ARR.
• Created a custom Slack integration for interfacing with LaunchDarkly that saved Heap $100k/year in LaunchDarkly seat fees and resolved major points of friction for internal support teams.
• Successfully refactored core Heap features from Backbone to React, unblocking major product initiatives and significantly improving developer velocity.
• Enhanced the developer experience by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, fine-tuning webpack and ESLint configurations, and implementing comprehensive monitoring across the application stack.
• Collaborated with product managers, designers, and other engineers to scope projects, refine requirements, and define timelines.
• Advocated for on-call improvements and refined alerting and monitoring to reduce page frequency.
Skills: Node.js · React.js · TypeScript · Design Systems

Senior React Software Engineer
Tuft & Needle · Full-time
Oct 2021 - May 2022
• 8 mos• Core member of Tuft & Needle's Design System team, helping to architect and build a component library utilized by multiple retail websites.
• Conducted code reviews to ensure that design system components meet accessibility, brand, and technical standards.
• Mentored and led pair programming exercises with mid- and junior-level developers.
Skills: CSS · Design Systems · React.js · TypeScript

React Developer
Optum · Full-time
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
• 1 yr 2 mos• Developed, maintained, and refactored customer-facing web applications using React, Redux, TypeScript, Redux Saga, React Testing Library, and Jest.
• Built and updated a suite of reusable components in a monorepo environment.
• Worked closely with a distributed team of frontend, backend, and QA engineers in an agile scrum setting.
• Ensured that applications meet modern web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0, WAI-ARIA, etc.).
• Served as a subject matter expert for internal business stakeholders.
• Handled front-end deployments to QA and staging environments.
• Conducted code reviews and led technical demos.
Skills: Front-end Engineering · React.js · TypeScript

Front End Developer
Prosek Partners · Full-time
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
• 1 yr 8 mos• First development hire for Prosek Partners, a leading financial public relations and communications firm.
• Responsible for defining the company's technical stack and development processes and procedures.
• Spearheaded the creation and configuration of an internal, reusable component library.
• Developed proprietary web applications using React and a custom-built internal API.
• Performed full-stack WordPress development, including creating custom themes and plugins.
• Created custom, reusable component libraries for websites and web applications.
• Identified tools to assist in collaboration between departments and to improve the efficiency of Prosek's design, development, QA, and launch efforts.
• Managed the development phase of projects, regularly communicating with clients and ensuring that projects adhere to scope, budget, and timeline requirements.
• Lead search engine optimization efforts within the organization.
• Drafted hosting contracts, maintenance contracts, and scope of work documents.
• Conducted WordPress training sessions for clients after site delivery.
Skills: Front-end Engineering

Front End Developer
Monkee-Boy Web Design, Inc.
Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
• 3 yrs 6 mos• Lead developer for all custom WordPress site development.
• Developed dynamic and static websites using HTML, CSS, JS (ES6), PHP, and various web APIs.
• Built custom, reusable WordPress plugins and themes.
• Conduct code reviews, lead team training sessions, and provide mentorship for junior developers.
• Consistently completed projects within scope, budget, and timeline.
• Completed maintenance tasks for projects post-launch, including implementing new feature requests, resolving issues, and performing security updates.
• Assisted in project and requirement scoping.
• Assisted in QA efforts for all company-developed sites.
Sites developed while at Monkee-Boy Web Design, Inc. can be viewed from my profile's Projects section.
Skills: Front-end Engineering

Front End Development Manager
Clarity Ventures, Inc.
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
• 1 yr 5 mos• Developed DNN, WordPress, and static websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, and SQL.
• Served as the primary point of contact for a number of entrepreneurial, private industry, and government projects.
• Consistently completed projects within scope, budget, and timeline.
• Delegated project tasks to the front-end development team.
• Conducted one-on-one on reviews with front-end development team members.
• Performed QA on managed projects.
• Organized and lead training sessions for the front-end development team.
Skills: Front-end Engineering

Project Manager
Six Red Marbles
Nov 2012 - Mar 2014
• 1 yr 5 mos• Managed teams of front-end and back-end developers to create and maintain custom content management systems for our clients.
• Trained and led internal and freelance teams on content entry and content management system use for all assessment-related projects.
• Managed day-to-day operations for digital and print production projects.
• Negotiated business terms and pricing with clients.
• Regularly completed projects within the projected time and budgetary requirements.
• Created schedules, workflow and pricing trackers, and budgets.
• Performed IT tasks for the Austin office, including setting up networks and maintaining computer systems.
• Was responsible for all office management tasks for the Austin office, including coordinating moves, ordering supplies, and communicating with building management.

Business Developer
Solomon Exam Prep
Oct 2011 - Jan 2012
• 4 mos• Lead business development efforts for a prominent securities industry licensing examination preparation firm.
• Negotiated successful business transactions with prominent financial institutions and wealth management firms throughout the Pacific Northwest.
• Marketed and sold study material for financial securities exams.
• Maintained the company's website.

Independent Contractor
McGraw-Hill
Aug 2011 - Oct 2011
• 3 mos• Copyedited high school-level German textbook for print production.
• Corrected German spelling and grammatical errors.