About

Front-end lead with a background in architecture, product delivery, and team leadership. Currently a UI lead on a large American Eagle team through Insight Global, focused on PDP experiments, third-party integrations, CMS work, and favorites. Also practices agentic development, orchestrating AI coding agents across planning, implementation, code review, and deployment. Previously built SaaS, consumer web, and analytics products.

Areas of Expertise

  • Software Engineering
  • Front-end Development
  • User Interface Design
  • E-commerce
  • Product Detail Pages (PDP)
  • A/B Testing
  • Third-party Integrations
  • CMS
  • Product Information Management (PIM)
  • Experimentation (Optimizely)
  • User Experience (UX)
  • Developer Experience
  • Agentic Development
  • AI Agent Orchestration
  • Adaptive/Responsive Design
  • Dashboards
  • Data Visualization
  • Collaboration
  • Team Leadership
  • Technical Liaison
  • Workflow Optimization
  • Technical Debt Resolution
  • Feature Implementation
  • Mobile Apps
  • Browser Apps
  • Single Page Applications
  • Stack Modernization
  • Application Re-Architecture
  • Application Security (SAST, DAST, and IAST)
  • Project Management & Execution

Experience

UI Lead Engineer

Insight GlobalMar 2024 - Present

Contracted to American Eagle Outfitters as UI Lead Engineer. Lead front-end work on customer-facing commerce experiences, with a focus on product detail pages, experimentation, CMS enhancements, and third-party integrations.

  • A/B test new PDP features in Optimizely, shipping and iterating on product-page experiments.
  • Integrate third-party services into the storefront, including cookie consent, a loyalty points program, and product recommenders.
  • Build CMS enhancements and favorites functionality used across American Eagle digital experiences.

TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, Ember.js, Next.js, NX, Playwright, Optimizely, CMS, PIM, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Figma, Gemini, Cursor

Sr Software Engineer

NowSecureApr 2019 - Jul 2023

Contributed to software development and engineering for the company offering security solutions, including automated mobile app security testing tool and manual testing and reverse engineering desktop solution, providing analysts with sophisticated tools for in-depth mobile app analysis. Transformed system performance and user experience through expert architectural design and redesign of both new and existing systems.

  • Improved user experience by contributing to re-architecture of flagship SaaS product’s front end, enhancing product appeal and usability through meticulously redesigned interface.
  • Fostered productive partnerships with product owners, research teams, backend architects, and contractors developing cutting-edge solutions that not only met but exceeded client expectations while keeping pace with market trends.
  • Mentored a team of front-end contractors, providing product and engineering support along with project grooming, task breakdown, planning, code reviews, and deployments.

TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, React, MUI, Storybook, CSS, HTML, Jest, Cypress, Puppeteer, NX (monorepo), Apollo, GraphQL, REST, RPC, Express, Nestjs, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, gitlab, Jira, Confluence, Figma

Sr Software Engineer

PeopleConnectOct 2015 - Apr 2019

Streamlined workflows and boosted efficiency by charting a course for successful redesign and re-architecture of the Intelius website. Contributed to the successful re-architecture of the Classmates website.

  • Worked closely with product owners, backend architects, and contractors to develop modern user interfaces for the company’s flagship products.
  • Led a team of developers and contractors to rebuild the intelius.com website using Node, Express, and Ember. Worked with product owners to break work down into tasks. Coordinated with API and database teams to create project requirements. Worked closely with contractors to keep them unblocked and on track.
  • Took ownership of a profitable online bingo game. Made seasonal updates and bug fixes. Maintained the full technology stack, including ActionScript/Flash, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and mySQL.

JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Ember, Vue, HTML, CSS, Sass, Less, Foundation, Express, Grunt, Bower, github, Jira, PHP, Java, ActionScript/Flash

Lead Web Developer

WebtrendsDec 2011 - Oct 2015

Analytics, testing, and optimization of websites using A/B/n and multivariate testing.

  • Implemented testing, optimization, and analytics solutions on the company’s largest and most visible customer websites.
  • Architecture and implementation of custom dashboards and real-time data visualizations.

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, Node, Express, Backbone, d3js, Handlebars, Ember, Grunt, Bower, PHP, AWS

Sr Interactive Developer

Publicis SeattleJul 2007 - Feb 2011

Development of web pages, landing pages, banners, and other interactive marketing.

  • Delivered high quality digital marketing, prototypes, and dashboards for some of the world's biggest brands.
  • Collaborated with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Designers, and Copy Writers to translate big ideas to actionable items.

Actionscript 3, Flex SDK, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, d3js, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe InDesign

Projects

Brew Tools