November 2022 - Present

Vice President of Engineering

Hey Jane

• Built a 3-person engineering team from the ground up, hiring all within the first quarter of time in role.
• Implemented a full shift in technical architecture from a collection of third-party forms and AWS lambdas to a full-stack web application, executed in iterative milestones tied directly to product initiatives.
• Successfully executed multiple high impact projects that added new product verticals, improved AOV, and increased conversion.
• Led selection process for IT contracting service, and served as direct supervisor to establish processes, set priorities, and led new initiatives.

September 2021 - November 2022

Head of Product Engineering

Galileo

• Restructured the engineering organization to create stable domains, and hired a management staff to drive success
• Stemmed a trend of steady attrition and grew team from 15 to 25 engineers over a single year.
• Implemented formal processes around on-call, incident management, agile practices, and a career leveling ladder
• Partnered with product leadership to lay out a multi-year product and technical plan to allow our systems to scale both organizationally and operationally

February 2017 - September 2021
Taipei, Taiwan

Senior Engineering Manager

Stitch Fix

• Managed core services team of a major, cross-functional strategic initiative, identifying opportunities for new technical capabilities, and coordinating execution of projects utilizing those services
• Planned, designed, and led execution of roadmap initiatives in partnership with Product, UX, and Algorithms teams
• Simultaneously managed multiple remote teams across multiple business domains, including growing senior engineers into managers and managing them in their new role
• Responsible for teams successfully executing projects by guiding technical decisions, hiring, growing, and retaining high-performing engineers

August 2015 - February 2017

Principal Engineer

Stitch Fix

• Responsible for planning execution of initiatives, working in partnership with management to determine how work should be sequenced, prioritized, and divided amongst the team
• Led and executed multiple projects building expert use tools and workflows for a customer service team of over 100 agents
• Led effort to automate notifications and payment of unreturned items, including work to allow customers to self-serve when extending their return date without contacting customer service
• Worked with manager to build the Client Experience engineering team from my initial hire to a team of 9 engineers, as well as onboarding and mentoring new and junior engineers

July 2009 - August 2015

Lead Web Applications Developer

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

• Primary developer on culturaldistrict.org, a commerce site responsible for over 20 million in annual ticket sales and donations, built in Ruby on Rails
• Integrated the culturaldistrict.org website with the Tessitura CRM through a mix of SOAP and REST APIs
• Led effort with Pittsburgh's Ruby User Group to fork Radiant CMS and upgrade it from Rails 2 to 3, resulting in the TrustyCMS project that powers all Cultural Trust websites, including culturaldistrict.org, trustarts.org, and pghkids.org
• Worked with DevOps to migrate all web applications to Amazon Web Services, and developed a deployment orchestration application to ensure no - downtime deploys and update related auto scale groups
• Created Festivity, a TrustyCMS-based arts festival event management