work history
SteelSeries
roles
Director of Engineering, Digital
February 2022 - July 2024
Engineering Manager
March 2021 - February 2022
accomplishments
- Improved core web vitals, resulting in improved e-commerce conversion from .75% to 1.5% and reduced page load from 10 seconds to 4 seconds
- Evolved team from e-commerce maintenance to cloud services team supporting three brands and 3 million monthly active software users for SteelSeries gg
- Mentored engineers at all levels to promotions of senior and technical lead positions
- Improved department velocity by 40% over two quarters, maintaining uptime SLO
- Reduced external SaaS spending by 500,000 USD per year through a variety of AI, internal builds, and bundled alternatives
- Reduced AWS costs by 50% and improved uptime to 99.99% by establishing and refining DevOps discipline across all engineering teams
- Designed, documented, and architected new projects with the focus on scale, developer experience, and accountability
- Scaled from single, four-person, US-based engineering team to global distribution of fifteen engineers, plus scrum masters, product managers, and manual QA
ActiveCampaign
roles
Engineering Manager
February 2019 - March 2021
Full-Stack Engineer
June 2017 - February 2019
accomplishments
- Scaled from six to twenty-one engineers in core differentiator, hired and mentored additional engineering manager to split department responsibilities
- Identified and implemented organizational areas of growth in process and technology that resulted in organizational React adoption and migration
- Architected iterative front-end transformation from PHP/jQuery to React within Automations space
- Mentored engineers through all levels of their career, resulting in promotions to mid-level, senior, and staff
- Initiated organization-wide monorepo structure to accomodate multiple front-end technolgies, dependencies, and localization efforts
- Led development during rework of Automations section, improving performance, API request latency, and user experience that resulted in a 12% increased rate of first automation created
L2 Interactive
roles
Front-end Engineer
September 2015 - June 2017
Newark element14
roles
Senior Interactive Developer
February 2012 - September 2015
Interactive Designer
August 2011 - February 2012