Where I have Thrived

• Rocket Communications, Inc. - Staff Engineer ( April 2022 - April 2023 )

  • Rebuilt and revitalized the documentation site for the Astro design system for space applications, allowing richer content from our authors and interactive experiences for our users.
  • Helped to hire and build a new team of developers who continue to create and realize new experiences and features, and to maintain the Astro design system documentation site.

• Pika Tech, Inc. - Senior Software Engineer ( October 2021 - February 2022 )

  • Core maintainer of Astro, a site builder for the web platform.
  • Created a polyfill library to bring 73 WebAPIs to NodeJS.
  • Managed RFC processes for a 10k+ star GitHub project.
  • Managed community success for a 4k+ Discord community.

• Contractor - Front-End Developer ( Oct 2013 - Mar 2014, Sept 2016 - Dec 2017, Nov 2019 - Aug 2020 )

  • Introducing modularity, accessibility, internationalization, and helping shape development best practices.
  • Introducing modern and next-generation JS and CSS in companion with tooling like Babel and PostCSS.
  • Developing new Esri homepage, new blogs, and new company-wide web applications used across all sites.
  • Developing new WeDeploy homepage. Introducing better CSS and SVG management and optimization.
  • Developing an asset manager frontend for handling 30 years of TED media.
  • Developing a registration system used for upcoming TED conferences.

• Modulz, Inc. - Product Engineer ( September 2020 - October 2021 )

  • Authored the 1.0 release of Stitches, a CSS-in-JS library with extensive typing for a “best-in-class” developer experience.
  • Stitches was library agnostic with a near-zero runtime, multi-variants support, and SSR support.

• Genpact - Senior Principal Consultant ( January 2018 - November 2019 )

  • You have to ask me, but it involved a lot of React, Redux, PostCSS, teaching, and interviews.

• 10up - Web Engineer ( October 2014 - June 2016 )

  • Developing high-level websites on a regular basis, like TypeOneNation and FiveThirtyEight.
  • Developing and maintaining company sponsored open source libraries like sanitize.css and flexibility.

• Chapman University - Web Technology Specialist ( March 2014 - September 2014 )

  • Creating Digital Signage software for targeted advertising, information, and emergency notifications across campus.
  • Creating an online branding development framework for all of our web properties.