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	<h3>Summary</h3>
	<p>Engineering leader at top-tier companies including Apple, Slack, and Dropbox. Proven track record of managing remote and multidisciplinary teams, driving elegant product solutions, and delivering scalable, user-centric experiences. Passionate about improving team productivity and fostering cross-functional collaboration.</p>

	<p><strong>Key Skills:</strong> Remote Team Leadership, Strategic UX Process Development, Product Development, Cross-functional Collaboration, Frontend and Backend Integration, Team Management & Mentorship, Performance Management, AI-Assisted Development</p>

	<h3>Experience</h3>
	<h4>2023 to Present: Founding Engineer and Engineering Manager - Noded Ai, Marin, CA</h4>
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			<li>Architected a web UI using OpenAI's APIs, MongoDB Atlas, Apollo Client, React, Vite, and Tailwind</li>
			<li>Collaborative product development with the co-founder</li>
			<li>Recruited, interviewed and hired another engineer who directly reports to me</li>
			<li>First on my team to experiment with Claude Code. After developing a controlled process for using it alongside team contributions, saw significant productivity gains</li>
			<li>Took the site from an empty editor in January to our launch in July 2024 contributing product, prioritization, design, and code leadership at a three person company</li>
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	<h4>2021 to 2023: Engineering Manager - Slack, San Francisco, CA</h4>
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			<li>Leadership in development and product for the Workflow Builder feature</li>
			<li>Built and managed Slack Platform's first remote UX team consisting of five frontend engineers, one backend engineer, and a designer</li>
			<li>Collaborated with multiple teams and design leadership to ship a redesigned Workflow Builder capable of working with Slack's next generation platform in three months unblocking the release of Slack's next generation platform</li>
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	<h4>2019 to 2021: Staff Engineer, Frontend - Slack, San Francisco, CA</h4>
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			<li>Lead development of an admin/end-user UI in a two month effort to allow Slack to scale to take on hundreds of thousands more seats with new contracts. This effort also helped avoid outages during pandemic usage spikes</li>
			<li>Gained support for an internal standard for APIs supporting UIs to optimize perceived loading and amount of data shown in complex user-facing data tables</li>
			<li>Direct impact on product decisions informed by data, organizational priorities, relationships with UX design, and an understanding of architectural opportunities</li>
			<li>Over a year of direct engineering leadership experience prioritizing work, facilitating organization changes, hiring, and managing performance</li>
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	<h4>2016 to 2019: Sr. Software Engineer - Apple, San Francisco, CA</h4>
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			<li>Contributed in building the initial release of Apple's web map application: <a href="https://maps.apple.com/">https://maps.apple.com/</a></li>
			<li>Directly responsible for public developer documentation and bi-weekly publishing of release notes for MapKit JS</li>
			<li>Led development of the authorization interface for MapKit JS</li>
			<li>Developed GeoJSON import support for MapKit JS</li>
			<li>Led development and continue to maintain a dashboard application for MapKit JS users</li>
			<li>Presented MapKit JS authorization for WWDC 2016</li>
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	<h4>2015 to 2016: Web Developer - Dropbox, San Francisco, CA</h4>
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			<li>Primary frontend developer on the "Campus Cup" campaign - one of the first projects at Dropbox to use React</li>
			<li>Performed 2-6 engineering interviews a week and trained peers on interview procedures</li>
			<li>Built a mechanism for serving SVGs which are internationalized at runtime and cached</li>
			<li>Mentored new-hires, including introductory task delegation and weekly progress check-ins</li>
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	<h4>2014 to 2015: Design Technologist - Stamen Design, San Francisco, CA</h4>
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			<li>Full-stack JavaScript development and UX design of <a href="http://caliparks.org">caliparks.org</a></li>
			<li>Data-driven sketching and production development using PostGIS, D3, Leaflet</li>
			<li>Built applications for scale using JavaScript, Node.js, and React.JS</li>
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	<h4>2009 to 2013: Sr. Frontend Engineer - Flickr, San Francisco, CA</h4>
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			<li>Implemented an engineering project management process which was adopted by all project teams</li>
			<li>Developed Flickr's primary web geotagging interface</li>
			<li>Key contributor in a complete redesign of the Flickr Photo page</li>
			<li>Involved in architecture decisions for frontend technologies</li>
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	<p>Thank you for having a look at my career. This is the best summary I could manage with HTML as a medium. I recommend a real conversation for best results.</p>
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