Experience

Jasper

• New Zealand
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Frontend Developer

  • May 2022 - Jul 2023

  - Co-led transition from Vue app to Next.js/React. - Implemented major frontend features, such as Chat Threads, which interfaced with many of our other features. - Helped develop component library for web and browser extension. - Used Lexical to develop composable editor. Created plugins and consistent UI for powerful, intuitive user experience. - Pioneered, documented, and advocated for good code patterns (immutability with immer, lint rules, created useful hooks, etc)



Triplebyte

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Feb 2020 - May 2022

  San Francisco Bay Area - Ownership and development of full-stack features in a web application for a hiring marketplace for engineers, using Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React and Typescript. - Developed a new technical interview; interviewed > 60 engineers and engineering managers. Designed grading rubric for existing interviews, which improved consistency, fairness, and visibility into interview scores. - Did product management for my own projects when my PM was stretched thin. Wrote spec; coordinated with… Show more - Ownership and development of full-stack features in a web application for a hiring marketplace for engineers, using Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React and Typescript. - Developed a new technical interview; interviewed > 60 engineers and engineering managers. Designed grading rubric for existing interviews, which improved consistency, fairness, and visibility into interview scores. - Did product management for my own projects when my PM was stretched thin. Wrote spec; coordinated with designer, copywriter, and stakeholders; conducted user research; analyzed results. - Developed numerous large features, including: Overhaul of our core engineer search feature; new engineer onboarding wizard; launched Screen quiz product to all companies; Recruiter Intake Form experiment; Next Steps feature to engage engineers. - Introduced use of Graphite CLI tool to help us break pull requests into smaller, more manageable pieces. - Won company hackathon: Feature allowing companies to woo engineers by offering to skip screening interviews. Show less



Human Interest

• United States
• Financial Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2017 - Feb 2020

  San Francisco - Ownership and development of full-stack features in a B2B2C web application that administered 401k plans for companies, along with company and employee dashboards, using Node.js, Postgres, GraphQL, React and Typescript. - Interviewed > 100 engineers and engineering managers. Developed grading rubric (similar to above). - Introduced React functional components and hooks when they were introduced, and made them the new standard. - Developed numerous large features, including: Wizard… Show more - Ownership and development of full-stack features in a B2B2C web application that administered 401k plans for companies, along with company and employee dashboards, using Node.js, Postgres, GraphQL, React and Typescript. - Interviewed > 100 engineers and engineering managers. Developed grading rubric (similar to above). - Introduced React functional components and hooks when they were introduced, and made them the new standard. - Developed numerous large features, including: Wizard to guide employees through rollovers; generic Wizard component for use in future wizards; resolved messy duplicate-person architecture/schema debt issue; supported employees having multiple employment terms (required overhauling much of our core business logic) - Started and led documentation working group; wrote and implemented our improved documentation strategy. Used Domain-Driven Design principles to keep code, engineers, and business users aligned. Show less



Get In Touch

• Human Resources Services

• Lead Software Engineer, Founder

  • 2016 - 2019

  San Francisco Bay Area App reminds you to follow up with contacts, saves your life updates, and tracks which updates you have shared with each contact. • Architected a clean, modular codebase using React, Redux, Node, Express, SQL, and Knex • Developed feature allowing a user to fetch their contacts from Google Contacts using the Google API • Improved user experience with synchronous and asynchronous form validation using the redux-form library • Implemented session-free authentication using JWT’s and… Show more App reminds you to follow up with contacts, saves your life updates, and tracks which updates you have shared with each contact. • Architected a clean, modular codebase using React, Redux, Node, Express, SQL, and Knex • Developed feature allowing a user to fetch their contacts from Google Contacts using the Google API • Improved user experience with synchronous and asynchronous form validation using the redux-form library • Implemented session-free authentication using JWT’s and OAuth Show less



Hack Reactor

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineer, Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2016 - Nov 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area • Tutored students on React, Angular, Backbone, Express, Node, general industry best practices, and Javascript fundamentals • Developed and implemented first-ever training materials on how to answer student requests for help, saving 24 hours a week • Debugged hundreds of issues weekly and trained junior engineers in debugging strategies • Conducted 3-5 technical interviews/week, evaluating and selecting applicants based on coding ability and cultural fit



Peak Democracy

• Lead Technical Liaison / Quality Assurance

  • Sep 2014 - Feb 2016

  Berkeley, CA • Attained 95% user satisfaction and 97% client retention, compared to company averages of 90% and 88%, respectively • Developed intuitive UIs using Javascript and HTML for 30 city government websites to help clients communicate data about complex issues to their constituents, and to elicit informed citizen feedback on these issues • Automated company tasks using Javascript, resulting in one-time savings of 50 hours and ongoing savings of 3 hours/week • Developed and implemented QA… Show more • Attained 95% user satisfaction and 97% client retention, compared to company averages of 90% and 88%, respectively • Developed intuitive UIs using Javascript and HTML for 30 city government websites to help clients communicate data about complex issues to their constituents, and to elicit informed citizen feedback on these issues • Automated company tasks using Javascript, resulting in one-time savings of 50 hours and ongoing savings of 3 hours/week • Developed and implemented QA plans for new features, across browsers, and met 100% of deadlines, using Pivotal Tracker Show less



Davis Dollars Community Currency

• Founder

  • Sep 2008 - Aug 2014

  Davis, CA • Founded local currency used by 50+ businesses in Davis, CA, leading to thousands of dollars of circulation per month • Won support from City Council and the Chamber of Commerce • Developed and administered two-way marketplace to connect Davis Dollar holders to people providing services for DDs



CA President pro Tempore, Senator Darrell Steinberg

• District Representative and Internship Director

  • Apr 2008 - Aug 2014

  Sacramento, California Area • Won Change.org accolades for Steinberg being “among the most engaged elected officials” on the Change.org platform • Led team that responded to all constituent contacts (900K constituents total); improved response time from 90 days to 7 days • Recruited, interviewed, trained, evaluated and managed 180+ interns, in cohorts of up to 25