Seattle, Washington, United States
* Help design and lead org-wide programs which enforce high quality and safety standards for software and operations while raising developer productivity in those efforts * Review system designs and code across the organization to catch issues early, instill best practices, and help others deliver valuable results quickly * Directly review and bar raise operations across three different teams, performing call leader duties and assisting in mitigation for high-severity escalations * Independently deliver code changes and designs for critical systems * Provide technical direction for hard problems, documenting clear paths forward to enable others to implement my solutions to scale my value through delegation * Interview bar raiser to lead interview loops and enforce good practices to hire the best for roles across the company. Ensure that engineering, manager, and employee quality continually improves over time as we grow, helping to train other interviewers to do the same * Create training materials and hold informational sessions which spread knowledge gained through experience to newer engineers and promote a diversity of ownership * Dive deep into the cost of services across the organization to devise ways to save money by meeting requirements more efficiently * Facilitate away-team work while insisting on high standards and setting expectations for communications and expected effort from our team
Worked as a full-stack programmer at a small startup in a full-time, then contractor capacity. Responsibilities included helping to plan new features and taking ideas to implementation in a production environment. Created simple user interfaces that foster intuitive user experiences. Learned to integrate open-source software when possible to save time, and design and implement solutions when necessary by utilizing common design patterns. Gained experience tackling scalability problems using efficient algorithms and data structures, and available system design. Gained practical experience with Ruby, Rails, C++, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and C#, along with many popular Ruby gems.