Work
Head of Engineering
At Hellosaurus, we're building the interactive children's video platform for shows you can play — interactive, enriching children's media for ages 3-8 that engages kids as active participants rather than passive viewers.
- management
- react
- node
- aws
- data
Software Engineer (Growth)
Early member of the Growth team at learning technology company backed by YCombinator, Reach Capital, and Learn Capital; ideated and implemented growth experiments reaching over 50% of U.S. elementary schools
- ruby on rails
- growth
- data
Engineering Manager (Growth)
Built team of 3 engineers & 2 interns from the ground up; generated >$10,000,000 in incremental revenue; conducted hundreds of resume reviews & interviews; reviewed hundreds of PRs; architected multiple new services
- ruby on rails
- react
- growth
- management
Software Developer
Helped edtech nonprofit backed by Gates Foundation, Google.org, and AT&T Foundation to implement new features, enhance security & test coverage, and refactor unperformant Rails code to scale beyond 800k learners
- ruby on rails
- react
- sql
- heroku
Learning Advisor
Mentored Codecademy students as they worked through tricky technical exercises; taught best practices in a variety of programming languages; helped shape curriculum by reviewing materials and providing feedback to curriculum developers
- mentorship
- user experience
- quality assurance
Software Development Intern
Worked on Rails application w/ over 100k daily active learners to implement features like a new checkout flow to increase conversion rates and a custom quizzes feature to generate dynamic quizzes based on user input
- ruby on rails
- jquery
- heroku
- selenium
Editor & Community Coordinator (Contract)
Led EdSurge Independent, a community of the world's most impressive students working to improve education; convened over 30 students and connected them with mentors and speakers from organizations like the Gates Foundation, Quizlet, and Pencils of Promise
- leadership
- writing
- program management
Strategic Partnerships Lead (Volunteer)
Led a team of open source contributors to establish the positioning and messaging for edtech nonprofit founded as a 20% project at Google; reviewed dozens of open source pull requests from a UX perspective
- user experience
- copywriting
- leadership
Co-Founder & CTO (Exited)
Built a collection of internet advertising websites from 2011 to 2016 that helped digital businesses reach more customers and make more money; scaled to tens of thousands of users and millions of page views before selling the sites in 2016 to help pay for college
- php
- sql
- product
- design