Google Broadcast Player, Workstream Lead (present)

• Helped create an in-house video-on-demand platform for >130,000 employees w/ Angular, Dart, SCSS, in-house server & database platforms, Bazel, and in-house testing platforms
• Ran standups, sprint planning, retros, and organized teamwide lunch-n-learns
• Co-managed an Engineering Resident who was hired on full-time post-residency

Google Video Conferencing, Platform Team (2 yrs.)

• Wrote software to maintain and then deprecate in-house linux videoconference system
• Awarded bonus for completing project ahead of schedule and with zero incidents
• Led two >100k LOC Py2→Py3 migration efforts that landed on time

• Rotation (5 mos.) while working at Google through Google in Residence program
• 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 migration of payroll providers 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
• Graduated over 100 students and provided followup career support and interview prep

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

• Shipping team - Full stack PHP & JavaScript development
• Worked with a team to handle shipping label generation & address validation

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 Risk botmaking 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 Chicago-based Unitarian Universalist seminary

Helping set direction of ~120 student college with $12M+ endowment

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

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

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

Worked with teams to create videogames for 72-hour online game jam Ludum Dare

• Stained glass art hobby (@solidarityglassworks on Insta)
• I play electric bass, guitar, drums, and various other instruments at an amateur level
• I've written (useful!) code in Haskell
• Founded a video, board, and tabletop gaming club at Lawrence University, ended up with a 23-bed house on campus