Justworks
Senior Engineering Manager of the Growth Engineering Department
July 2019 – Present
Building our Growth Engineering department with a focus on improving the experience and operations of companies on the Justworks platform.
- Created the Growth Engineering department and the Internal Tools and Prospect Experience teams to join the existing Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) team
- Previously managed the Core Engineering team; developed projects that significantly improved our security posture and developer experience
- Implemented Agile processes across my product and engineering teams, which improved delivery.
- Developed the first integrations between the sales and product platforms, enabling the unification of disparate revenue and operations teams
- Four months after Joining the HRIS team we successfully launched a long delayed PTO project that has helped us expand offerings in our largest markets
- Run weekly cross-team engineering educational events
- Helped develop JustWorks career growth framework which lead to reduced turnover and happier engineers
- Led teams to deliver timely Covid-19 relief projects as a key part of the company's effort to provide economic support for our customers while maintaining operations.
Bustle Digital Group
VP of Engineering
November 2016 – June 2019
Transformed the engineering team and infrastructure to allow us to grow from 2 brands to over 10 enabling a 5x growth in revenue and 3x growth in headcount.
Developed our platform that serves almost a billion requests a month with an 98p of 40ms response time, primarily using Amazon Lambda and Redis. We're large proponents of JavaScript and Serverless.
- Managed the engineering team, with a focus on keeping them happy, healthy and productive.
- Decommissioned years of legacy products by developing the frameworks for mass migration of
legacy data and merging of engineering and IT systems. Applied the framework to 5+ M&A, reducing timeline and budget with each project.
- Led our platform team in the development of a consolidated platform which increased development speed and drastically reduced outages.
- Set coding and infrastructure processes across the engineering organization to allow for faster, less risky development and deployment.
- Developed a technical playbook for mergers and acquisitions for IT and Software Development Teams.
Bocoup
Director of Web Connected Devices
November 2015 – October 2016
Started a department specializing in advising IoT and Electronics companies, building tools, and solving problems quickly using open source software.
- Adopted Tessel, an open source hardware company, and helped them improve their developer workflows and infrastructure. I used the Tessel 2 to produce a showcase product, called the Johnny-Five Inventor's Kit that is now sold around the world.
- Formed relationships and developed projects with teams at Intel, Microsoft and LogMeIn.
- Scoped and executed projects improving developer experience for several IoT devices. Lowering
out-of-box to deployment time from hours to under ten minutes.
- Organized our international open source community to have the largest yearly event ever,
NodeBots Day 2016, featuring 29 cities in 7 countries.
- Managed the budget and projections for the department.
Wizard Development
Founder / CEO
October 2013 – September 2015
Hired, trained and managed a team skilled in rails application development, serving customers in publishing and logistics. Featured on the PBS News Hour for our work in education.
- Bootstrapped the company from a personal consulting and training business.
- Hired smart junior developers and invested in training to have a well balanced team diverse in
age, sex
and race.
- Developed a strong practice of pairing, testing and iterative development.
- Worked closely with clients to develop a shared understanding of software development workflow
and business
impact.
Levo League
VP of Engineering
December 2012 – January 2014
Responsible for daily operations of the development team and infrastructure, as well as
architecture and
scalability of the product. Lead the team through several high-profile product launches
- Standardized processes for infrastructure changes, development practices, and deployment
methodology.
- Implemented monitoring and trending, for both the infrastructure and product, to aid in capacity
and development planning.
- Implemented collection and reporting of analytics throughout our product, enabling data driven
decisions for product direction.
- Responsible for hiring decisions for the team.
Highbridge Capital Management
Vice President / Manager of the Network Operations Center
June 2010 – December 2012
Responsible for a global Network Operations Center tasked with ensuring continued business
operations.
- Developed alert research and incident analysis tools, alleviating the need to hire additional
personnel.
- Hired as an associate support engineer, promoted to a vice present and manager of the NOC in
2011.
- Supported infrastructure and development teams in daily operations.
- Worked as a first responder to incidents across our "full stack", including network
infrastructure, server
hardware, Linux and Windows operating systems, application support, and business processes.
- Organized a series of workshops and presentations to train employees on core tools and
libraries.
- Worked with software development teams to identify areas of operational risk and aided in
resolving issues.
- Responsible for hiring decisions for the team.