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Ensured coding standards across multiple teamsApplied testing philosophies and best practices to comply with organization security and testing standardsFostered a healthy team integration and work environment by constantly seeking feedback and using it as a tool for growthFacilitated cross-department architecture decisions by identifying inefficiencies in E2E systems designManaged financial impact within the organization by advising technical trade-offs in system designWorked actively with Product from across teams to define long term roadmapsIdentified dependencies in R&D across the company to resolve them before they became an issueManaged department-wide commitments, their progress and roadmap to deliveryApplied and contributed a financial and risk driven framework to optimize geographic, skill set, level and headcount to achieve support, roadmap and strategic goalsDrove and planned measurable OKRs and KPIs for the value stream

Tech stack: AWS AthenaAWS GlueApache SparkPostgreSQLPythonScalaSnowflakeSentryDatadog

Produced simple, clear, modular, loosely coupled, low complexity, testable and clearly documented codeReviewed code in important, core and complex components and frameworksIdentified complexities that could be broken out into reusable componentsParticipated in making design decisions that leveraged cost of future changesWrote unit, performance, integration and load tests that applied the organizational testing philosophy and approachIdentified and rectified symptomatic problems based on SLAsDesigned, documented and built simple and scalable solutions for complex problems with reusable architecture based on best practice standardsParticipated in the creation of team roadmaps and ensued feedbackEnsured cross-team dependencies were noted and well understood by the teams involved and other relevant stakeholdersCommunicated and anticipated blockers within the team's projects and escalated as neededMentored other team members in an open, transparent, respectful and empathic manner

Tech stack: AWS AthenaAWS GlueApache SparkPostgreSQLPythonScalaSnowflakeSentryDatadog

Created programme outline for training the first generation "pod" of 50 junior developersFostered a collaborative and healthy work environment through short feedback loops and applied it as a tool for growth withinDesigned and implemented coding standards and best practices for Frontend and Component Library developmentDefined and applied testing philosophy, standards and best practicesEncouraged cross-team collaboration and architecture decisionsIdentified dependencies across value streams to work with stakeholders and Product to create roadmaps and OKRsManaged commitments, progress and roadmaps to deliveryProduced clear, modular, loosely coupled, documented codeIdentified bottlenecks that could be broken out into reusable componentsDesigned and built scalable solutions that leveraged reusable infrastructure/architecture

Tech stack: TypescriptReactStorybookNode.jsStyled ComponentsnpmRest API

Led and collaborate in the rebranding internal projectUpdated and standardized the FE codebaseDeveloped a React component libraryPublished private React component library to npmCollaborated and executed the deployment to production of the rebranding releaseWorked alongside and collaborated with a third party agency to develop services and features

Tech stack: TypescriptReactStorybookStyled ComponentsnpmRest APINode.js

Collaborated with stakeholders to document OKRs to plan the development of the internal transparency applicationProduced Definition of Done for all features to be developedReviewed code by the internal development departmentTested and documented bug of feature functionalitySupervised and tracked roadmap to delivery

Tech stack: PHPApachePostgreSQL

Refactored and updated parts of the codebaseDeveloped a recursive file indexing system for customer multimedia storageCreated coding guidelines, standards and best practices policies

Tech stack: PHPApacheMySQLJavascriptRest API

Managed and prioritized expectations across varying levels of leadershipContributed and used financial and risk driven framework to optimize skillset, level and headcount to achieve support, roadmap and define strategic goalsIdentified ways to increase effectiveness, efficiency and continuous improvementEstablished clear goals and provided direction allowing others to determine how to realize the planDiscovered, created and guided different approaches to promote and enhance customer experienceManaged cross-functional projects with leaders from ideation to completionAnticipated challenges that could sidetrack or derail growthEstablished and ensured adherence to coding standards across teams to allow for easy transition between projectsBuilt Proof of Concepts to prove out and discuss changes to code or technologiesEnsured and monitored adherence to testing standards and SLA'sIdentified inefficiencies in E2E system design while facilitating cross-department architectureEnsured dependencies and abstractions are designed, built and resourced to create sustainable architectureAdvised about technical trade-offs in system design and the impact to businessIdentified gaps in security measures to address fixes through work, policies and proceduresManaged department wide commitments, progress and roadmap to delivery

Tech stack: Node.jsJavascriptReactAngularPHPLaravelCodeIgniterMySQLMariaDBPostgreSQLPythonDjangoRest APIGraphQLLinuxCentOSApacheWHM

As Director of Engineering I was responsible for leading the hard technical discussions, implementing security best practices, software and hardware purchase, managing our private servers, hiring, contract brokering and delivery.

Tech stack: PHPApachePostgreSQLJavascriptReactMySQLCode IgniterCentOSWHMSysadminRest APINode.js

I was in charge hiring short term contractors, application design, architecture decisions, development, security, DBA, sysadmin and maintenance of our platform. This project was the result of our team's collaboration creating an application that studied, synthesized, analyzed and graded presidential proposals during the 2012 presidential electoral campaign.

Tech stack: PHPApachePostgreSQLJavascriptMySQLCode IgniterCentOSSysadmin