Current as of April 2020

Based in San Francisco, California

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EXPERIENCE

Lambda School

“CS education that's free until you get a job”

Data Engineer, Aug ‘19 - April ‘20

Helped migrate Lambda School from a "no code" tech infrastructure (Airtable/Zapier/Salesforce) to a code-based one (Postgres/Snowflake/Node/React).

Responsibilities

• Crowd sourced specs from ~150 employees to document existing workflows and tech stacks

• Stack ranked ~100 workflows to prioritize for development in code

• Evaluated third party software to replace pieces of "no code" infrastructure

• Implemented Retool (rapid internal tool builder) and built a process for the engineering team to collaborate on it

• Developed internal tools to look up student records, facilitate day-to-day student operations, manage students in bulk, and help get students hired

• Built analytics dashboards in Mode to track tool usage

• Collaborated with other engineers to integrate tools into GraphQL endpoints

<aside> ⚙ View case study on an internal tool I led building that saves 133h/wk of manual labor

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Sixty

“On demand web app experts”

Cofounder & CEO, Aug ‘15 - Present

Responsibilities (varied over the course of the business)

• Fundraising: raised capital from Y Combinator.

• Developed prototypes for new products and internal tools using “low code” and “no code” stacks. Once traction outgrew stack, worked with engineering team to rebuild prototypes in Rails and continuously improve from there.

• Data and analytics: implemented data tracking plan via Segment, set up dashboards for team members, defined and tracked product and business metrics.

• Did front-end development on website for static and programmatic landing pages (for SEO), created our blog.

• Algorithm results: designed and developed algorithms to match freelancers with client projects and predict project cost and duration.

• Recruited and managed remote operations team, responsible for:

  • recruiting 300+ freelancers.
  • overseeing freelancer operations and client satisfaction.
  • community management.
  • providing algorithm feedback.
  • weekly newsletters.

• Wrote blog articles about building freelance careers and hiring freelancers.

• Process meetings: weekly opening and closing meetings, standups, quarterly and annual meetings.

• Managed cashflow, finances, legal.

<aside> 📖 View portfolio of all the products we built at Sixty

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