Experience
Opendoor // Senior Engineering Manager
June 2022 - November 2024
Typescript, Ruby, Go, React Native
- Led all of engineering for Opendoor's zero-to-one initiative with the goal of driving the next evolution of the business
- Set new standards of engineering excellence resulting in faster product releases and more customer insights
- Worked closely with cross-functional partners to define business and product strategy resulting in a 60% increase to the business
- Delivered the largest mobile app update in company history in under half the initially estimated time
- Drove innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and the web while partnering with teams across the organization
- Managed, coached, and promoted individuals from junior to senior staff engineers and other engineering managers
Remitly // Senior Engineering Manager
March 2020 - June 2022
Java, Go, React Native
- Led all of engineering for Remitly’s first zero-to-one initiative: A bank for the underbanked
- Managed and grew the engineering team across four squads from junior to Principal engineers and engineering managers
- Transformed the team's hiring process in order to improve speed, candidate experience, and of engineering hires
- Oversaw feature development on all parts of the banking platform, internal tooling, fraud systems, and acquisition funnels
- Implemented and ran team agile processes for prioritization, bug triaging, sprint planning, operational excellence, and bi-weekly all-engineering meetings
Textio // Senior Engineer, Engineering Manager
April 2017 - March 2020
Python, Javascript, Node, React, Flask
- Led the engineering team that was responsible for the flagship Textio.com application and internal tooling
- Drove cultural, business, and product changes throughout the company via ice breakers, retrospectives, user research, analytics, and other process improvements
- Helped scale up the company through diverse hiring and process improvements from 30 employees to over 150
- Lead engineer for user-facing features across the platform as well as personal side-projects that greatly enhanced developer productivity
Mazlo // CTO
May 2013 - April 2017
Ruby, Python, Javascript, Node, React, React Native
- Built several products, taking them from idea, to MVP, to successful launch
- Established, grew, and led the team of 10 engineers that built & maintained Mazlo's on-demand coaching service across web, Facebook, iOS, and Android ecosystems.
- Managed product & technology in areas such as architecture, languages, product planning strategy, milestones, user research, and business development, across multiple major pivots.
Freelance
November 2011 - May 2013
Rails, Python, Javascript, CSS, HTML
Worked on several startups as the first engineer or CTO:
- Interim CTO for TadPoll to bring transparency to government.
- Founded Dabblr, a big data, event discovery and management service.
- First engineer at Ritani, brought on to help design, build, and launch Ritani.com.
Dashwire // Software Engineer
June 2011 - November 2011
Ruby, Javascript, CSS, HTML
- Developer lead for DashWire’s smartphone setup application (acquired by HTC)
Amazon // Software Engineer
January 2009 - June 2011
Mason, Perl, Javascript, CSS, HTML
- Developer/designer/ux specialist across organizations within Amazon