Oakland, California, United States
Senior Software Engineer and former Engineering Manager with 7+ years of experience building scalable web applications and leading high-performing teams. Proven track record of driving business impact through technical excellence, strategic product execution, and cross-functional collaboration. Currently at Dropbox, where I tech lead revenue-critical initiatives including tax season products that contributed to $39M in annual revenue. Previously managed a 5-person engineering team, achieving an 88% manager recommendation score while mentoring multiple engineers to promotion. Experienced in full-stack development (JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python), system architecture, and operational excellence. Passionate about building products that solve real user problems and creating environments where engineers can do their best work. Specialties: Technical Leadership | Full-Stack Development | System Architecture | Team Development | Product Strategy | Cross-Org Collaboration
• Tech Lead for yearly Tax Season products, delivering ahead of schedule and contributing to business beating revenue targets in 2025 by $11M (reaching $39M total revenue) • Completed 3-year React 18/Next.js 14 upgrade, systematically resolving ~39 security vulnerabilities while maintaining development velocity during organizational transition • Drove operational improvements in security, compliance, and reliability that contributed to developer experience index score of 97 (+32 vs org average) and maintained >99.95% uptime with zero critical incidents • Designed technical implementation and customer migration strategy for legacy Fax product deprecation in coordination with Dropbox Fax team • Led cross-org incident review process for Adjacencies organization, coordinating post-mortems for critical incidents requiring cross-company coordination
• Managed 5-person Tax Team owning FormSwift's highest-revenue product (tax form builder and e-filing systems) • Directed implementation of Google Sign-In, achieving 5.44% increase in conversion rates and 3.24% increase in new account creations • Led 1099-NEC split test strategy (as DRI) that drove 14% increase in conversion and 16% reduction in cancellations • Mentored and promoted multiple engineers to senior positions while achieving 88% manager recommendation score (+4 vs company benchmark) • Team engagement scores exceeded company benchmarks by +7 points in both career development and project prioritization
• Introduced async "Story Time" planning process, doubling story estimation throughput • Created oncall runbook templates adopted across engineering organization • Established structured compensation review templates and career growth plans for team development
• Tech led tax builder migration to Next.js architecture, ensuring design supported complex split testing and mobile-friendly experiences • Drove SEO improvements and Core Web Vitals optimizations, improving site speed and search ranking • Led Optimizely Full Stack migration, enabling first server-side split tests on Next.js application
• Architected and launched Fax product (greenfield project) managing SignalWire API integration, database design, and full-stack implementation - product reached 10% of company revenue at peak
• Built real-time classroom collaboration app using Firebase, enabling live question/answer updates for teachers and students • Developed full-stack features for edtech platform serving K-12 education market
• Led development of first autograder for Snap! visual programming language as undergraduate team leader • Created JavaScript-based user interface framework including menu system, popups, and organized testing results display • Built abstraction checker that identified code patterns and suggested refactoring opportunities to students • Interacted with students to answer concerns and optimize grading experience
• Developed collections feature using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and CSS for design methods repository • Implemented user-uploaded image hosting with AWS S3 for production environment • Improved UI consistency and usability across platform