Lead Full-stack engineer

Layerframe, Inc. - Principle Engineer - Working for a boutique design firm presented many new challenges, chief of which was simultaneously supporting and developing multiple different client projects, each with their own languages, environments, and stakeholder groups. This was a huge opportunity to hone my frontend skills, and increase my ability to communicate effectively across different teams and technical levels.

Tripgrid, Inc. - Lead Front-end Engineer - My first priority at Tripgrid was to implement an Agile process: organizing all work into a scrum board, kicking off regular stand-up meetings, and developing a codified and integrated QA and release process. My work with the React application focused on multiple goals, including refactoring state management, moving towards a more React-idiomatic approach, implementing a component library, and making UX and security improvements to the authentication system. Additionally, I worked closely with the engineering team to coordinate major feature releases and dramatically improve overall platform performance.

Schoology, Inc. - Lead Engineer - One of my most challenging and rewarding career experiences, I was brought on-board as the first engineering hire and saw fast, exponential growth throughout my 3 years. Initially I worked closely with the co-founders to build core components of the platform and create a positive development culture. As the company grew to 100+ people I was given the opportunity to manage a team of developers and designers, manage weekly sprints, and build an adaptive learning system, a public REST API, and the Schoology App Store.