Welcome to my personal website! 👋 I’m a frontend-focused developer with a desire to work alongside thoughtful teammates on high-quality products.
Experience
Lattice — Staff UI Engineer
May 2022 – Present
- Built high-quality and forward-looking React components as a lead of the design system team, including a feature- and variant-rich data table component
- Owned feature prioritization, iterative delivery, and stakeholder communications on complex cross-team projects without a product manager
- Proposed, implemented, documented, and evangelized frontend development improvements across the company, including the introduction of Storybook and creation of tools to allow unit testing components connected to the GraphQL API
- Led planning, scoping decisions, and technical direction of green field features and overhauls to existing user experiences in the Compensation product suite
- Fostered community and collaboration of frontend engineers across the organization as a prominent member of the UI Guild
- Promoted culture and inclusion as a member of the ERG for engineers of underrepresented genders, including speaking on panels about mentorship and career growth and presenting on the value of public speaking as a minority
Salesforce, Trailhead learning platform — Engineering Manager
October 2021 – April 2022
- Led planning and organization of projects that involved conflicting priorities between existing commitments and new organizational goals
- Motivated and guided team members during difficult organizational changes
Salesforce, Trailhead learning platform — Lead UI Engineer
August 2019 – October 2021
- Led UI development of the Trailblazer Community (a Q&A forum and job network) from the ground up, as one of only two frontend developers
- Built a high-quality and accessible micro-frontend, with Node.js, TypeScript, Lightning Web Components, and Apollo Client
- Partnered with product and design on UX decisions
- Collaborated full-stack with backend engineers on our GraphQL API
- Presented testing and quality best practices to 50+ engineers
- Developed and owned the end-to-end localization solution and process
Salesforce, Security Platform — Senior Software Engineer
August 2016 – August 2019
- Built a user event processing system using Java, Spring, Kafka, and HBase
- Partnered with technical writers to produce thorough customer-facing technical documentation
- Advocated for testing and quality through code reviews, as our feature lived in critical code paths (e.g. Salesforce’s login flow)
Skills
- TypeScript
- React
- HTML
- CSS
- Web components
- Jest
- Accessibility
- GraphQL
- Apollo Client
- Relay
- Storybook
- Chromatic
- Node.js
- Git
- Internationalization
- Documentation
- Public speaking
- Project management
Values
- Quality
- Craft
- Accessibility
- Diversity
- Humility
- Collaboration
Awards
- U.S. Patent No. 11216785 System and Method for a single, unified, community and learning experience
Education
- UC San Diego, 2016 B.S. Computer Science