work history

Engineering Leader
Focused on accomplishments as an Engineering Manager and a Director of Engineering
Individual Contributor
Focused on accomplishments as a Senior Engineer, solutions architect, and team mentor

SteelSeries

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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

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Front-end Engineer
September 2015 - June 2017

Newark element14

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Senior Interactive Developer
February 2012 - September 2015

Interactive Designer
August 2011 - February 2012