Enterprising software engineer with a penchant for pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
ML security and privacy.
Joined a small team of four engineers at a fintech startup rebuilding the web platform from scratch. Grew the team to 20+ engineers as the company scaled to unicorn status.
- Led development of key products across the stack
- Mentored junior & mid-level engineers, proactively took charge of team processes
- Reduced errors in prod by 30% via deterministic script loading
- Sped up time-to-first-meaningful-paint by 20% via improved server-side rendering
- Improved time-to-interactive by 1.4s with code splitting
- Doubled font loading speed via range-splitting & preloading
- Led development of the web platform
- Achieved a 63% faster time-to-interactive than competiting platforms
- Accomplished a 10% visitor-to-subscriber rate on marketing pages
- Rebuilt the self-service support website, increasing ussage by 20%
- Created & implemented company-wide processes for user research
- Humboldt University; 2013-10 to 2016-03; Berlin, Germany
- Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies; 2019-03 to 2020-02
- agnostic-axe: Developer tool that reports accessibility issues to the browser console. (Now maintained by Deque Systems).
- co-commit: Friendly CLI to quickly co-author commits on GitHub when pair programming. Featured on the front page of Product Hunt.