Developed a proof-of-concept that demonstrated the potential for utilizing a CRM for managing operations at Sweetgreen, ultimately convincing leadership to adopt the platform. Currently leading the migration efforts

Collaborated with management to identify and address spikes in engineering resource costs (e.g. AWS, CircleCI, Datadog), successfully reducing costs by ~30% while maintaining the same level of developer experience.

Conduct regular workshops to educate engineers on best practices and to introduce new features released by the Foundational Tech team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. A recent example includes a session on End-to-End (E2E) testing using the Playwright framework, showing engineers how to write tests that simulate user interactions with our application, and how these tests can be run in parallel to reduce test execution time from 2 hours to 10 minutes.

Recognized the inefficiencies of having ~300 GitHub repositories and developers working in silos; proposed and led the transition to a monorepo using the NX framework, resulting in a significant increase in engineering velocity and enabling ~10 releases per day, up from once a month. The move to the monorepo also had a significant cultural impact as it was instrumental in helping the engineering team stay positive, productive and collaborative during a turbulent time.

Led the 'replatforming' initiative at Sweetgreen, transitioning from native development (iOS / Android) and the Ember web framework to React Native over a period of ~1 year. This transition not only yielded massive productivity gains for developers but also drastically improved our customer's experience, as evidenced by our Android app rating improving from 1 star to 5 stars in the Google Play Store.

Utilizing the Serverless framework, extracted the most heavily used API, location search, from our monolith backend into its own service. This dramatically reduced latency times for customers searching for a Sweetgreen location, significantly enhancing the customer experience.

Worked with leadership to define engineering and product roadmap. Ran sprint planning, backlog grooming, gathered requirements and wrote tickets. Grew engineering team by leading hiring and establishing engineering best practices.

Led the development of internal insights web application (built with React, Typescript, and GraphQL) that was pivotal in empowering Creative Strategists to find and replicate top performing ads, which increased client retention and spending; leveraged Hasura to generate a GraphQL endpoint from an existing Postgres infrastructure, exposing Facebook data for the web application to consume.

Introduced and trained engineers in React, GraphQL, Typescript, and Test Driven Development.

Established automated CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI with full end-to-end testing using Cypress.io; increased velocity from 1 deploy a week to ~8 - 10 a week.

Worked with leadership to define engineering and product roadmap. Ran sprint planning, backlog grooming, gathered requirements and wrote tickets. Grew engineering team by leading hiring and establishing engineering best practices.

Led the development of internal insights web application (built with React, Typescript, and GraphQL) that was pivotal in empowering Creative Strategists to find and replicate top performing ads, which increased client retention and spending; leveraged Hasura to generate a GraphQL endpoint from an existing Postgres infrastructure, exposing Facebook data for the web application to consume.

Introduced and trained engineers in React, GraphQL, Typescript, and Test Driven Development.

Established automated CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI with full end-to-end testing using Cypress.io; increased velocity from 1 deploy a week to ~8 - 10 a week.

Led a team of 5 engineers; defined web engineering code and process standards; improved communication across NorCal and SoCal web engineering teams

Improved release velocity while reducing number of bugs released to production; averaging 10 releases per week, up from ~3 per week

Built the web team 'canary' test suite; ensures back end changes do not adversely affect endpoints the web team uses by automatically testing endpoints and alerting the team of breaking changes

Led the migration from legacy Django web application (wagwalking.com) to GatsbyJS; drastically improving SEO and page performance reducing page load time by more than 300%

Created Wag!'s shared React Component library using React, Styled Components, Styled System, and Lerna with over 80 components and counting

Identified opportunities for web team to help iOS and Android teams to meet release expectations; built out MVP features in React to create webviews for Wag! mobile applications

Completely re-architected legacy React web app, drastically improving stability and customer experience (0 downtime since re-architecture); migrated back end off of Firebase

Built out entire suite of end-to-end tests with Cypress.io for legacy web app

Built out entire CI pipeline in GitLab to facilitate test automation; spins up a local instance of wagWebApp and wagAPI via Docker and runs entire suite of tests. Increased developer confidence and awareness by integrating pipeline results with Slack

Designed and built a suite of microservices that ingests and normalizes 3rd party data from multiple sources, and RESTful API's for user interfaces built in React to interact with

Templatize the creation of microservices using Cookiecutter in order to maximize consistency and efficiency

Managed the evaluation of various open source front-end technologies, ultimately implementing and training a team of 7 engineers on React, Redux, Redux-Saga, and Styled-Components

Worked closely with in-house designers to create and maintain RealtyMogul.com's core UI component library using Storybook; maximizing code reuse, consistency, and team efficiency

Established front-end coding standards and best practices such as Test Driven Development; implemented linters and tests that were automatically run on code commit, which prevented failing code from being introduced to the code base and ultimately, fewer bugs for QA

Overhauled front-end tooling / build system, decreasing front-end code compile time from 10s to ~0.2s and drastically improving developer experience