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Head of Developer Experience

Pluralsight

Leads the lab’s public-facing educational wing, with a focus on driving communal dialogue and industry impact from the lab’s public audience of software teams

Contributes to the lab’s growing public presence, leading conference talks, public-facing workshops, and writing articles and blog posts in order to maximize the impact of the lab’s research for developers

Provides reviews of research materials, helps recruit participants for research studies, and serves as an internal developer advocate within the research lab

Works closely with the lab’s research scientists as a software expert coauthor, collaborating from beginning-to-end on research projects

Leads the creation of educational and practical materials that accompany the lab’s original research launches

Serves as an expert voice for Developer Experience within the research team, ensuring that the team elevates developer experiences in a way that is authentic, inclusive, and community-driven

Engages directly with developer communities in order to discover insights to inform future scientific research

Principal Developer Experience Engineer @ Developer Success Lab

Plans, executes & reports to the CTO on in-depth needs analyses to determine strategic technical upskilling foci across the engineering org

Designs & facilitates internal academies & workshops on topics like Web Accessibility, Cloud Computing, Software Observability, & Communication

Collaborates with senior engineering leaders and technical subject matter experts to create tailored learning experiences

Participates in select learning experiences as a “lead learner” to model learning behavior and cultivate learning communities

Collects and analyzes data on learning experiences for reporting, retrospecting and growth purposes

Promotes the Technology Center of Excellence’s work and ideas internally & externally through publishing articles and presenting at conferences

Technical Lead - Technology Center of Excellence

Led the development of DORA metric visualizations, collaborating heavily across development and product teams

Led the migration of run-time sql execution to a metrics-processing job for a 5x report-load-time performance improvement

Collaborated heavily with product team to vet, plan and engineer technical features that solve real customer problems

Constantly reflected on individual and team performance in order to improve delivery efficiency and developer satisfaction

Actively mentored less-experienced software developers, & actively seeks mentorship from more experienced colleagues

Served as a Flow media spokesperson, collaborating with the Pluralsight Content Strategy team to produce bylines and web content to promote Flow

Senior Software Engineer

Led the maintenance and continued development of a Bounded Context (React, TypeScript, Python & Django) and a big-data PySpark application

Facilitated frequent deployments via a healthy continuous integration (Jenkins) and continuous deployment (ArgoCD) pipeline

Managed multiple engineering efforts simultaneously, balancing and prioritizing technical initiatives with customer-driven development

Worked as part of an autonomous Product Team to gather, analyze & formulate requirements for customer-driven feature development

Guided an engineering team in the creation of and adherence to co-created team agreements and processes

Coached and facilitated the growth and success of fellow engineers

Met with customers and potential customers to explain and demonstrate the value of the Flow Delivery Module

Director Of Engineering

Wrote internal APIs using Django and Django Rest Framework

Wrote unit and integration tests with Pytest

Analyzed feature requirements in order to contribute to the design of backend data models

Contributed to the development of shared internal packages to support a bounded context architecture

Collaborated and paired with colleagues to solve problems and ship code

Practices Lean development practices, prioritizing flow efficiency and the delivery of value to customers

Backend Python Developer - Flow

Zayo Group

Collaborated with teammates to implement new features, improve existing code and fix bugs across the stack using AngularJS, Node/Express & PostgreSQL.

Developed and used API contracts in order to establish and communicate requests and responses 

Practiced test-driven development, utilizing stubbing, req/res mocking, and test coverage tools 

Wrote and optimized database queries for a PostgreSQL database 

Recommended and executed refactoring projects to reduce technical debt and increase adherence to best practices across our code base 

Critically assessed new features specifications from Project Management in order to gauge feasibility, estimate LOE, develop POCs, refine requirements, and implement technical solutions 

Mentored and mentored by teammates in writing code that is maintainable, testable, and follows best practices

Lead Application Developer

CaliberMind

CaliberMind is software focused on B2B Buyer Journey Orchestration. The product is meant to help marketing and sales teams better understand their buyers and their journeys to accelerate sales and increase revenue.

As a software engineer, I contributed to front-end development using React, Redux, and Material UI, as well as server-side development through work on the RESTful API (Loopback) and microservices (Seneca).

I used Git and Github to collaborate, and as no code passed into the master branch without multiple team members' scrutiny and feedback, this position allowed me to improve my programming skills via direct feedback proffered on my own code, reading and analyzing others' code choices, and through resulting discussions on best practices and the establishment of team-wide standards.

Contract Software Engineer

Galvanize Inc

As a resident instructor in Galvanize's Full Stack Web Development program, I assisted in the development and delivery of instruction with the goal of helping new coders develop mastery in both server- and client-side technologies. I delivered lessons to large groups, as well as helped single students through more individualized struggles via one-on-one interventions. The languages, libraries, frameworks, etc. that I got to master and teach through this opportunity include Javascript, Node, Express, PostgreSQL, Angular1.5, and React/Redux.

Full Stack Web Development Resident Instructor

Colorado State University

As an instructor in both the English Department and Intensive English Program at CSU, I planned curriculum and lessons in order to help English-language learners gain proficiency in academic English, with an emphasis in teaching writing and composition.

For a variety of courses (e.g., College Composition, Writing for International Graduate Students, Listening/Speaking, English Grammar), I was trusted to take a set of objectives and expected outcomes and design a course and accompanying materials that facilitated students' achievement of these objectives. Through this iterative process, repeated many times over several years, I was able to combine both analytic and creative skills to ensure students received instruction and tasks that enabled student success.

Composition & ESL Instructor

Reading Town

Planned curriculum, taught English language learners, and trained incoming teachers.

English Instructor and Lead Teacher

Reading Star

Planned and delivered lessons to South Korean elementary school children.

English Instructor

As a Developer Experience professional, I couple my eight years in software development and software engineering leadership with my background in language teaching pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, and classroom-based research.

My diverse set of expertise fuels my passion for finding practical applications of empirical research in the tech world, particularly in enhancing how software teams and practitioners learn, work, and thrive. My work is rooted in evidence-based practices, combining scientific insights with real-world experiences to enrich developer experiences and team collaboration.

While a member of the Developer Success Lab, I worked on crafting transformative materials, workshops, interventions, and curricula meant to catalyze positive behavioral changes in software teams. Drawing from my experience in language learning pedagogy and research, I brought a nuanced understanding of learning processes and group dynamics to the development of these resources.

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