About me

I'm a staff software engineer who love's to build. I'm currently working at Figma on Design Systems. Previously I've worked at Google and Canon USA R&D.

While at Google I worked on frontends you might have used, such as Analytics and AdWords.

Experience

Figma

Staff Software Engineer

2023-Present

• Helping build Design Systems and Design System Analytics

CloseFactor

Staff Software Engineer

2021-2023

• Eearly employee building out the core product

Internal Data Analytics Suite

Staff Software Engineer

2016-2021

• Tech lead & manager of a 4 person team building data analytics frontends
• Built an application for creating and monitoring ETL data pipelines using a rich graph based editor
  • Product responsible for running over XXX,000 weekly pipelines
  • Increased frontend usage by 55% over a 1 year period
• Worked cross-site to build a streaming pipeline monitoring UI
• Created common frontend infrastructure used across Google

Google Analytics

Senior Software Engineer

2012-2016

• Designed and launched the project to migrate Analytics to Angular
  • Lead team of 4, later coordinating work of 11 engineers at peak of migration
  • Conducted design, security, privacy, and legal reviews
  • Designed process that allowed for seamless, incremental migration
• Lead a team of 3 to develop a common, accessible, frontend component library
• Lead a team of 3 to develop Analytics 360 Suite user management features
• Developed multiple features within the Analytics management UI

AdWords Keyword Tool

Software Engineer

2008-2012

• Helped develop and release a new version of the Keyword Tool
• Developed multiple features including user preferences, improved search, and improved table performance
• Developed suite a webdriver tests for automated frontend testing
• Member of production on call rotation
• Prepared training material and taught classes on GWT

Canon Development Americas

Software Engineer

2006-2008

• Conducted research and development to create new technologies for future Canon products
• Helped develop early versions of Canon’s support for Web Services on Devices
• Developed exploratory software and a smart remote for a potential brand of Canon TVs
• Traveled to Canon Headquarters in Tokyo to showcase division’s latest work
• Published 2 patents