I spent four years here, and was asked to move from an individual contributor role to a leadership role within three months of my working there.

• Managed a team of 3-6 high performing engineers, some of whom were tech leads in their focus areas (front end, devops, etc), and a handful of whom were promoted off my team, becoming leaders alongside me.
• Built an engineering department from a little over a dozen to sixty engineers, focusing on engineer productivity and career development, exponentially increasing the number of paid projects the agency could accept.
• Co-authored Code of Conduct for events as part of internal Diversity and Inclusion Guild, which became the foundation for the organizational Code of Conduct.

My leadership position also had a percentage of time I spent as an individual contributor still, completing the following:

• Extended software I first built in an earlier position, used to parse and view federal regulation for the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau, increasing regulatory compliance and ease of use for ATF staff using React, JavaScript, Backbone.js, Python and Django, Sass, HTML.
• Worked closely with designers and server side engineers to develop a website for an initiative that First Lady Michelle Obama created, resulting in interest being generated in the program and sign ups to the campaign, using Jekyll, JavaScript, Sass.
• Led continued development of an internal tool for federal procurement officers to receive fairer prices on government contracts by comparing past prices on similar contracts, which saved compliance officers time and money on new contracts, using Python and Django.

I was given a two year fellowship position to get the new federal agency built out of the 2008 housing crisis off the ground technologically.

• I led front end development for innovative and modern software that dynamically parses and displays federal regulations, revolutionizing the space for federal employees and private industry alike using Python, JavaScript, Django, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Travis CI, Sauce Labs, Selenium, Mocha, Grunt, shell scripting, linting tools, Babel, HTML, Sass.

• I led front end engineering for the initial deployment of an innovative news website, using Backbone.js, Underscore.js, JavaScript, PHP, Wordpress, jQuery.

• Maintained and built new features for a consumer product comparison website owned by The New York Times Company, using JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Drupal, PHP, jQuery.
• Halved load times by minimizing HTTP requests and optimizing server side code for Drupal views/templates.
• Co-led usability testing and user feedback collection, alongside the design director.

• Ported complex news site from Coldfusion to Drupal.
• Mentored Coldfusion engineers learning Drupal and PHP.

• Ported musician websites from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, including artists like Ben Folds and Kesha.

• Built the front end of two versions of a high traffic media website using Drupal, PHP, HTML, CSS.