Principal engineer who builds and ships daily with parallel AI coding agents (Conductor with Claude and Codex), with long-standing production discipline to keep quality high. Twenty years of web experience, including sixteen years of Ruby on Rails and more recently two years of Next.js. A true full-stack engineer across back-end optimization, infrastructure, and rich front-end apps, with a penchant for keeping it simple. Engineering leader who helped grow a team from 5 to 35 engineers, has conducted 200+ technical interviews, and has helped build hiring processes on four teams. A voracious learner who enjoys working with like-minded people.
Led the build of the redesigned member web app. Re-architected testing infrastructure. Reduced number of tickets per day for Operations by building more self-scheduling flows for our members.
Founding engineer at Brightline, a pediatric mental health company. Stack: Rails, ViewComponent, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS.
Highlights breakfast sandwiches and burritos in Seattle, with a focus on small restaurants run by Black, Latinx, women, and LGBTQ owners. Shipped to both app stores using Rails, RSpec, Hotwire, turbo-ios and turbo-android. Originally built in 2010 as an iPhone app for San Francisco.
Worked with engineers and designers on the product team and acted as liaison to the leadership team. Mentored engineers through pairing, helped the team make hard technical decisions, and unblocked bottlenecks. Optimized CI/CD to ship faster and helped grow the team from 4 engineers to 14. Built a Rails / React web app and a React Native app.
At Wanelo, I led the engineering team for numerous years in both application development and platform operations. Under the direction of the CEO and the product team, I advised product owners how we should build our numerous products. I led the team that built and maintained our marketplace for selling products through Shopify. During our growth period, I helped build scalable solutions to handle user growth by sharding postgresql for our user saves. When our user base was declining, I helped advise the company to downgrade our servers and other third-party services to go from $115k to $60k in monthly operating costs.
Became the lead engineer on the client-facing Ruby on Rails application. Spent six months at Pivotal Labs learning agile methods and TDD. Led front-end development of a single-page Backbone application, built a gem to share one database across several Ruby applications, and built an API between Postgres stored procedures and Rails.
Enhanced the Lean Startup Conference website, built conference software in pure Ruby that matched attendees to mentors (used at Lean Startup Conference 2014 and QuickBooks Connect 2014), and built the editorial site "The How."
Built and maintained a members-only WordPress site and worked with third-party developers to improve their WooCommerce plugin.
Delivered web design and development for clients including Fremont Brewing Company, Washington Green Roads, and Richard Conlin (Seattle City Council), working directly with them on requirements and support.
Freelance web design and development through high school and college, on PHP/MySQL. Clients included Night Owl Lounge, Carso's Pasta, Saga Beverages, and Bainbridge Island Yacht Club.
Volunteered my time to make the website more accessible and easier to publish content.
I built the COBI app that was used to collect data, which was then synthesized to create this publication.