Diploma

Led and grew a high-performing full-stack team of engineers across iOS, Android, web, and backend platforms, building key parts of Twitter's paid subscription product, Twitter Blue, when its mission was to support journalism and heavy news consumers with features including Top Articles and Reader Mode. Organized and aligned engineering org from Revue and Scroll acquisitions. Coached and grew engineers to Senior and Staff+ roles. Coached peer managers through team transitions and performance management. Partnered cross-functionally to drive impact on organizational design and processes, and increase non-advertising revenue for the business.

Senior Engineering Manager

Growing and leading the Prototyping Creation team, who builds sophisticated tooling to create interactive prototypes from production software designs, with the goal of making it cheap for ideas to be wrong and easy for ideas to feel real.

Engineering Manager

Supported and scaled a high-performing web platform team from 2 to 12 engineers building features around conversational content and media on twitter.com, including Fleets, reply conversation controls, Direct Message improvements, video playback UI and UX for uploaded, live (Periscope broadcasts), and looping video, plus other new product explorations. Supported unifying Twitter's live video infrastructure and end-user experience across in-house and third-party solutions. Evolved interviewing and hiring processes to grow web and consumer engineering leadership team. Partnered with peer EMs to evolve the career promotion process across the engineering organization.

Integrated Periscope on Twitter's web properties including Twitter Cards and Tweet Embeds. Added support to monetize Periscope broadcasts on twitter.com with pre-roll advertising. Key facilitator and engineer in unifying Twitter's live video (NFL, content partnerships) and Periscope broadcast products, technical stacks, and engineering teams. Facilitated work to establish best practices for decentralizing engineering operations around the world.

Staff Software Engineer

Rebuilt user profile pages on web, in addition to migrating the Twitter web server client from Ruby to Scala. Helped rebuild Direct Messages on web, including the launch of Group DMs. Launched the Periscope web player at periscope.tv with the release of the Periscope iOS app, after its acquisition by Twitter. Further developed the web client, introducing user profile pages, growing the team from one to five engineers, and evolving the site into a rich, universal ReactJS application.

Senior Software Engineer

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