
Lead Web Application Developer
ITHAKA
2018–2021
- Co-lead a team of 15 front end developers writing applications serving millions of active users.
- Worked with engineering leadership to create diversified avenues for team learning and discussion, resulting in mentorship groups, open office hours, and recurring tech talk spaces.
- Created, released, and oversaw maintenance of apiron, ITHAKA's first actively-maintained open source software.
- Co-championed the value of a design system for the JSTOR platform. Worked with design, brand, and product development to define the direction and lead the implementation.
- Built an internal code and architecture documentation system using Sphinx, and built a mind map to identify opportunities for knowledge sharing.
- Coordinated the upgrade of 30+ user-facing JSTOR applications to new Django and Python versions with no down time.