Patreon, New York, NY, July 2023 - Present
- Technical and product lead for the Podcasting team, driving strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment across a major company investment area.
- Built web architecture for Drops, a major new product launch, with scalability and performance in mind; helped reduce scope to ensure on-time delivery.
- Delivered core podcasting capabilities adopted by thousands of creators (accounting for millions in monthly TPV), including RSS Importing, RSS Syncing, Multi-Show, Public RSS, and DRM.
- Led RSS Syncing and Acast Deprecation end-to-end, eliminating $240K/year in third-party costs while improving the creator experience.
- Served as interim Engineering Manager on two occasions, keeping a large team delivering through leadership transitions and limited cross-functional support.
- Initiated and led effort to replace a legacy data-fetching library, with a modern alternative now adopted across multiple teams.
- Implemented DRM on web, a technically complex challenge requiring deep research into browser behaviors and close collaboration with external experts.
- Participated directly in creator sales, retention, and acquisition calls, contributing to wins with high-TPV creators and podcast networks including Sony, Wondery, and Vox.
- Designed team rituals, planning processes, and documentation standards later adopted by the broader Creator Home org.
- Mentored multiple engineers who have grown into local leaders and taken on increased scope and responsibility.
- Conducted a high volume of interviews across multiple formats including frontend technical screens, onsite coding, system design, core values, and cross-functional partnership interviews for PM and design roles.
- Promoted from Staff Engineer (L6) to Senior Staff Engineer (L7) in March 2026.
Grailed, New York, NY, October 2017 - May 2023
- Responsible for everything that happens in the user's browser and everything that gets the code to their browser.
- Consult with teams across engineering, product, and design to de-risk and unblock projects.
- Mentor multiple junior-, mid-, and senior-level frontend engineers.
- Responsible for long-term thinking around solving technical challenges that create risks to the success of the business, with other Staff Engineers.
- Lead project to migrate content-rich pages to Next.js for server-side rendering to improve SEO and performance.
- Shipped many, many features to our React-powered website and many fewer features (but some!) to our Ruby on Rails–powered API.
- Sponsor and support engineers in major technical projects; e.g. migrating from Flow to Typescript.
- Built an automated deployment tool called Maglev to solve deployment challenges.
- Built first version of our Android application in React Native with a Kotlin engineer.
- Interviewed many engineers, product managers, and designers.
Harry's, New York, NY, February 2013 - July 2017
- Built Harrys.com custom Ruby-on-Rails e-commerce platform, primarily focusing on the frontend.
- Member of Harrys.com start up team faciliating initial launch of company and website.
- Helped build subscription business, achieving 30+ percentage point increase in subscription penetration.
- Refactored checkout using React.js, among other modern Javascript tools, introducing those tools into the platform.
- Lead one of three teams tasked with refactoring major pieces of the platform in preparation to launch Harry's in the UK.
- Lead cross-functional Harry's x Jimmy Chin project; won Webby Award for Harry's x Jimmy Chin microsite.
- Interviewed many, many engineers, both technical and non-technical interview; interviewed many non-engineering roles for values alignment and cross-functional communication skills.
- Developed technical front-end phone screens and interview questions.
- On-boarded 3 frontend engineers, assisted with on-boarding many others.
- Developed and taught a 10-week long Javascript 101 class for Harry's employees (a few times).
- Unpacked a lot of FreshDirect boxes; changed a lot of empty water coolers; ran a handful of board game nights.
Involvio, LLC, New York, NY, February 2011 - February 2013
- Responsible for building involvio.com, an event promotion website for college students, and nustalgic.com, an event photo gallery website. Managed developer and designer; wrote HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Python in building Nustalgic and the front-end of Involvio.
GE|OMD Summer Incubator, New York, NY, June 2011 - August 2011
- 10-week incubator program bringing together select student entrepreneurs in a collaborative environment to develop digital, media, and marketing ideas. Involvio selected winner, awarded $10,000 prize to help fund business.
Humans vs. Zombies, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, February 2010 - May 2011
- Organized and supervised week-long games of Humans vs. Zombies, with a team of 5-7 moderators, for over 200 students. Created and implemented a series of missions encouraging teamwork, leadership, and excitement.
Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, September 2008 - May 2011
Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, August 2007 - May 2011
Patapsco High School, Baltimore, MD, August 2010 - December 2010
The Energeia Partnership, East Farmingdale, NY, June 2010 - August 2010
- Shadowed the director of the Energia Partnership, assisting with day-to-day tasks.
Student Government Association, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, July 2009 - July 2010
- Chaired the Student Senate and the Executive Board, bodies of 50+ and 10 students, respectively. Responsible for an annual budget of $250,000. Enacted the New Deal for Goucher College, a $20,000 on-campus job’s program for students.
- former, Vice President for Clubs, Feb. 2009-Aug. 2009
Ikamva Lesizwe Public School, Kenton-On-Sea, South Africa, May 2010 - June 2010
Union for Reform Judaism and North American Federation of Temple Youth’s Kutz Campus for Reform Jewish Teens, Warwick, NY, May 2009 - August 2009
- former, Resident Advisor, June - August 2008
- former, Work Staff/Dishwasher, June - August 2007
Youth Group, North Shore Synagogue, Syosset, NY, August 2006 - June 2007
- Developed and instituted educational programming and ran social functions for one of the most active teen youth groups in the New York region.