Technical Engineering Manager at BoomPop

• Managed and mentored a team of two engineers while also contributing code (NextJS, TS, React, AWS)
• Shipped core features for BoomPop's application, including an AI-powered user-hotel request generation system
• Sped up development by tenaciously investigating slow builds and deploys (20min -> 20sec for local build!)

Curriculum writer for Synergis, on assignment at Google

• Created curriculum about GenAI for Google.org's Tech Education team
• Lead Instructional Designer for "CS2: Object Oriented Python" course
• Automated curriculum deployment processes using Google Drive API

Google Broadcast Player, Workstream Lead (3.5 yrs.)

• Helped create an in-house video-on-demand platform for >130,000 employees w/ Angular, Dart, SCSS, Bazel
• Managed testing and releases, participated in oncall rotation
• Co-managed an Engineering Resident who was hired on full-time post-residency

Google Video Conferencing, Platform Team (2 yrs.)

• Maintained and then deprecated in-house linux-based videoconference system
• Awarded bonus for completing project ahead of schedule and with zero incidents
• Completed project to maintain video hardware fleet in ~6 months, saving Google ~$1.6M/year

Rotation through Google in Residence program (5 mos.)

• Designed curriculum and taught Intro to Computer Science virtually to 135 students
• Managed 4 student TAs and 4 Googler TAs
• Positive student feedback (4.5/5 class score) with 72% pass rate (met goals)
• At least six of my students were offered Google STEP internships + one at Microsoft

Internal Tools Team (9 mos.)

• Led payroll system migration under tight deadline using Django & Node
• Contributed to team culture with lunch-n-learns, D&D nights, and Slack emoji tooling

Infrastructure Team (6 mos.)

• Worked with AWS to set up queueing service for invoicing which powered core business
• Independently investigated AWS spend and recommended savings to CTO

• Lead instructor of full-time 12 week full-stack JS course teaching React, and later, Vue
• Created curriculum, led classes, and managed up to three assistants at a time
• Graduated over 100 students and provided followup career support and interview prep

• Engineering lead on dating app The Grade for Android using Titanium JS → Android transpiler
• Used PHP & JavaScript to do full stack development for dating app AYI

• Worked with a team to handle shipping label generation & address validation
• Developed flow for determining shipping configurations based on postal codes using PHP & JavaScript

Attended 12-week “writers workshop for programmers” (yet so much more!) in NYC

Wrote rollback netcode, worked on a finances tracker in React, competed in a bot-making competition, etc.

Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics/Computer Science. Final Project: PHP blogging platform

Bachelor’s Degree in English. Final Project: Creative Writing Portfolio

Board member of ~120 student Chicago-based Unitarian Universalist seminary with $12M+ endowment

Member of organizing board for !!Con and !!Con West

“Radically inclusive” technology conference about the joy, surprise and excitement of computing

Volunteer organizer for ~250 person conference with roles including emcee, treasurer, and media content writer

Technical Mentor & Interview Practice Provider at Pursuit code bootcamp - 2018

Teacher at School for Human Rights through TEALSk12 - 2014 → 2015

Wrote 50k words in one month to complete National Novel Writing Month

2008: YA fantasy, 2016: Sci-fi/magical realism, 2018: Data structures textbook

Stained glass art hobby (@solidarityglassworks on Insta)

I play electric bass, guitar, drums, and various other instruments

Founded a video, board, and tabletop gaming club at Lawrence Uni., worked as RA for club's 23-bed student house