Supporting web UI engineering at scale.
Infrastructure, tooling, libraries, and more to help engineers be more productive and get **** done.
Maintainability, performance, security, accessibility.
LinkedIn | Microsoft • May 2019—present • Mountain View, CA
Staff SWE, UI
Flagship Infrastructure and Productivity (Web)
- Optimizing front-end development tooling and workflows in high-velocity projects
- IDE (VS Code) extensions for code authoring productivity enhancements
- CLIs for commit-time and build-time validations
- Assistance onboarding flagship application to containerized Remote Development environments
- Build speed investigations and automated tooling to detect performance regressions
- Test execution infrastructure for CI (in-repo isolated addon testing)
- Data layer advocacy/support, GraphQL linting and best practices enforcement
- Node, TypeScript, bash
StubHub | eBay • October 2017—May 2019 • San Francisco, CA
Member of Technical Staff 2
Bullet (Web UI platform)
- CI/CD pipeline for npm publishing, Node app builds and blue/green deployments using PaaS for on-prem and
public clouds
- Represented needs/requirements of Node app in Eng-wide modernization journey
- App-layer changes for in networking/infrastructure, proxying of API requests, and deployments serving
search crawlers for SEO
- Caching/sessions, logging, API authentication middlewares for Node app supporting React SSR
- Concourse, Docker, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Akamai, Artifactory / Xray, SonarQube, Seeker, Splunk,
AppDynamics, Lerna
- Localization tooling for automating zip-based l10n tickets (legacy UI stack)
Responsys | Oracle • November 2010—September 2017 • San Bruno, CA
Senior Principal SWE ← Principal SWE ← Senior SWE
Responsys Interact
- Led global UI team (15-20 developers) in technical issues including design reviews, coordination, etc.
- Diagnosed and resolved UI performance issues, especially fixes for caching and compression
- Optimized front-end resources (JSP, CSS, JS, HTTP, Ajax) and design
- Owned front-end support for CDN and strategy for static resource URLs
- Rewrote Program Designer (visual workflow editor UI) from scratch using Ext JS and mxGraph, and
on-the-fly XML transformation for opening existing programs in new UI without disrupting customers
- Created/owned/improved key pieces of core UI framework including foundation layer
- Led Ext JS 3.x upgrade to 6.x including MVC-based app organization and Ant-based build logic for
processing front end resources
- Established/documented/advocated coding standards and best practices for JS and SASS
- Designed/built wizard-based single-page "Connect 2.0" app for configuring data import/export jobs
- Built modernized content picker widget and integrated it into legacy UI
- Owned web.xml and servlet filters for multiple UI apps, especially common request processing for
session management and security
- Standardized request processing with Spring MVC, common error handling and formats
- Planned/designed I18N support (messages, dates, etc.) including implementation for handling localized
text
- Led compliance and evangelism of accessibility standards (WAI-ARIA, WCAG 2.0 AA) and some JAWS testing
- Developed reusable solutions to prevent security vulnerabilities (XSS, CSRF, open redirects, path
traversal, etc) and served as security point-of-contact (advocate) for UI layer
- Led efforts with UX team to establish internal style guide for standard components
- Worked with Operations team to update/maintain error pages, favicons, Apache and Tomcat configurations
Purisma | Dun and Bradstreet • August 2006—November 2010 • San Mateo, CA
Senior SWE
Purisma Data Hub
- Web apps for data stewardship, operations, reporting in IE 6/7 and Firefox
- Java, Struts, GWT, AJAX, JSP, JavaScript, HTML, JBoss, Hibernate, Oracle, Velocity
- Implemented/owned drag/drop, multi-select, context menus, dialogs, etc.
- Improved home-grown UI widgets (tree, menus, grid, nested table) implemented in raw JS
- Heavy emphasis on performance and usability
- Business logic and UI-layer APIs to support client
- Integration with third-party JSAP library for CLI command parsing
- Automated multi-user load testing in clustered environment (WebLoad)
- Helped build thick client prototype in Swing and support for infinite scrolling
Candeo Technologies • April 2005—August 2006 • Los Angeles, CA
Senior SWE
Candeo Extension Platform (1 yr)
- C/C++ client development in Visual Studio using Win32 APIs, COM, ATL, GDI
- Customizable IE search toolbar (BHO) with pop-up blocker and JavaScript engine
Candeo Advertising Module (4 mo)
- Integration with third party APIs for ad serving and software sales
- Significant contributions to NSIS installer scripts
IBM • June 2000—April 2005 • Research Triangle Park, NC
Staff SWE ← Software Engineer
z/OS Managed System Infrastructure for Setup (20 mo)
- Developed Java/Swing components for configuration of z/OS TCP/IP
- Significant cross-site collaboration (New York, Germany)
Simple Network Management Protocol (20 mo)
- Learned SNMP and z/OS implementation (C)
- Enhanced client and server with IPv6 support in config files and protocol communications
- Improved code organization, created internal documentation ("product workbook")
- Enhanced TCP/IP subagent with new enterprise-specific IPv6 MIB data
- Developed utility to generate header files based on open-source libsmi library
Server Application State Protocol (8 mo)
- Implemented protocol message parsing engine in C for multithreaded Unix apps on z/OS as part of "crit
sit" for large customer
WebSphere Portal Document Management (10 mo)
- UI improvements, build verification, performance enhancements for J2EE / Struts based web apps (JSP,
servlets, JavaScript, HTML, Eclipse)
Indiana State University • summer 1996 • Terre Haute, IN
Webmaster
Construction Technology Transfer Center
- Built CTTC website (HTML, CSS)
ES2015+, Node, TypeScript, Git, Ext JS, HTML, SASS/CSS, Java/JSP, Spring MVC, C/C++, XML, bash
- Thorough, detail-oriented
- Thrive in fast-paced / unstructured environments collaborating with motivated engineers
- Love learning and applying new things
- Great written and interpersonal skills
- Love helping other engineers to become their best selves
California Institute of Technology, September 1996—June 2000
B.S. Engineering & Applied Science (Computer Science)
