Experience
Datadog
Engineering Manager
June 2023 – Present | New York City | Full time
Leads the product engineering team responsible for Datadog’s
incident management product
Peloton
Engineering Manager
Feb. 2021 – June 2023 | New York City | Full time
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Led a backend engineering team responsible for the content
search and discovery experiences serving Peloton's 7 million
members, balancing the interests of dozens of stakeholders from
across the company, including partners in Product, Marketing,
Production, and Engineering
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Trained, coached, mentored, and managed a distributed team of 14
direct reports ranging from junior to staff level, defining
processes, policies, and support structures
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Oversaw a long-running effort to migrate hundreds of endpoints
from a Python monolith to event-driven microservices fronted by
a GraphQL gateway
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Led of a cross-functional project team of 15 engineers to
deliver a suite of successful new features to improve the
workout experience for Peloton members, such as
Movements and Body Activity
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Established a standardized recruitment process for all backend
teams, allowing them to hire quickly and effectively
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Drove significant improvements to the engineering onboarding
experience, shortening the path to productivity for new hires
across all product backend teams
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Successfully led a departmental effort to define team ownership
over hundreds of resources, allowing Peloton to maintain
operational excellence as it scaled
Lifion by ADP
Lead Platform Engineer
2018 – 2021 | New York City | Full time
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As functional lead of a team of eight engineers responsible for
Lifion's client management system, organized project work, set
architectural direction, and worked closely with product
stakeholders
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Mentored other engineers and gave technical presentations weekly
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Designed and implemented a new federated GraphQL API, backed by
TypeScript microservices
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Reworked outdated domain models and systems with a focus on
test-driven development, multi-paradigm programming, and
domain-driven design
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Successfully led a team of developers to deliver a new data
processing tool under a critical deadline
New York Magazine
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2016 – 2018 | New York City | Full time
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Spearheaded the full-stack engineering of The Cut’s
homepage redesign, including the Node microservice that populates homepages with
content based on editorial specifications
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Designed a dynamic client-side JavaScript dependency analysis
and bundling system, shrinking response payloads on article
pages up to 18 percent globally
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Contributed to the in-house, Vue-based content-management system
and page editor
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Built
The Year In Memes, a National Magazine Award finalist
Slate.com
Lead News Apps Engineer
2012 – 2016 | New York City | Full time
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Built interactive visualizations, widgets, and games using Node
and React
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Developed apps that told important stories about
gun violence,
dark money, and
gentrification
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Produced some of Slate’s most recognizable work, including the
Game of Thrones Graveyard
and the
Outrage Calendar, a National Magazine Award finalist
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Developed games, such as the
Gerrymander Jigsaw Puzzle
and the
Starbucks Quiz, as well as a production platform for creating
audio
and
video
quizzes
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Built Slate’s
Gun Deaths
project, featured on NPR, MSNBC, and The Daily Show
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Built a desktop email client and chronicled the project in a
long-form essay
- Managed a junior engineer and three interns
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Broke Slate’s all-time traffic record with the “Travoltify Your Name” generator
City University of New York
Adjunct Lecturer
2015 – 2016 | New York City | Part time
Taught data journalism, HTML, JavaScript, and R to graduate students
with my own coursework
Yahoo!
New Media Intern
Summer 2010, Summer 2011 | Sunnyvale | Full time
Evaluated geoparsing software for a new hyperlocal news product
