Experience

Spark Hire, Inc.

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full-stack Developer

  • Feb 2021 - Present



Self-Employed

• Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Freelance Web Developer

  • Oct 2019 - Dec 2020

  Took contracts to build responsive landing/marketing pages. Pages were built without frameworks or a CMS (for performance and security) and only used lightweight libraries (i.e. jQuery). Took contracts to build responsive landing/marketing pages. Pages were built without frameworks or a CMS (for performance and security) and only used lightweight libraries (i.e. jQuery).



Asana

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Web Developer

  • May 2018 - Feb 2019

  Worked closely with design and product to build responsive pages (i.e. https://asana.com/pricing). Responsible for signup flows to the app -- most critical part of the business site. Streamlined original logic and maintained that simplicity while adding new tiers of signups and enabling trial signups. Responsible for experimentation efforts and created A/B testing best practices. Often on-call to deploy the site daily and ensure the site was up and running. We used a CMS (Statamic) so that non-technical stakeholders could create pages as well. Our deploy process built Statmic pages into static assets onto an AWS Elastic Beanstalk app and we used Fastly as our CDN to further improve performance.



Cars.com

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Front-End Developer

  • May 2016 - Nov 2017

  I worked as a front-end engineer on our most business-critical pages (home page, search page, vehicle details page). My primary focus was building new features and improving performance (time to interaction and time to visibility). Everything was unit tested (mocha/chai) and oftentimes E2E (protractor) as well. An important project of mine was moving key features of the homepage out of Angular and into vanilla JS on the front-end while also moving a lot of the logic into our server-side rendering engine (saving almost 20 seconds of load time on slow mobile connections). This had the additional benefit of making the homepage compatible with Internet Explorer (at the time over 10% of our user base). The success of this project shifted performance to a primary focus of the company.



Dev Bootcamp

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Student

  • Jul 2015 - Nov 2015



NextRoll

• United States
• Marketing Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Head Technical Recruiter

  • Oct 2012 - Aug 2013

  Originally hired as a consultant to head recruiting and helped AdRoll establish best practices in hiring (particularly in engineering). After a short while, I was brought in full-time to help scale the engineering team and assisted in our first two acquisitions of other companies. Originally hired as a consultant to head recruiting and helped AdRoll establish best practices in hiring (particularly in engineering). After a short while, I was brought in full-time to help scale the engineering team and assisted in our first two acquisitions of other companies.



Thumbtack

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Recruitment

  • Feb 2012 - Jan 2013

  Brought in as the original head of recruiting to establish best practices. I soon shifted my responsibilities towards building out the engineering, design, and product teams. Brought in as the original head of recruiting to establish best practices. I soon shifted my responsibilities towards building out the engineering, design, and product teams.



Riviera Partners

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Technical Recruiter

  • Apr 2011 - Jan 2012

  I helped CEO's of venture backed companies such as Airbnb, Eventbrite, and Cloudera find great engineers. I helped CEO's of venture backed companies such as Airbnb, Eventbrite, and Cloudera find great engineers.