SUMMARY
Experienced Staff Software Engineer with 26 years of delivering performant and easy-to-use applications. Proven track record in leading software development projects, implementing scalable solutions, and mentoring junior engineers. Applying for the position of Staff Software Engineer at Tailwind to contribute to the development of cutting-edge developer tooling and drive the company's technical growth.
EXPERIENCE
Founding Senior Software Engineer
Neem • October 2023 – March 2024, New York, NY (Remote)
- Owned initiatives on developer tasks, building and maintaining company CLI using Rust and common shortcuts across various bundler plugins, increasing build speed by 200% and obtaining near-universal team adoption.
- Increased the amount of automated tests in CI by more than 200% in 1 month, without increasing the overall runtime, via configuration of CI pipelining for maximum efficiency.
- Introduced team to prettier-plugin-tailwindcss to ensure consistent class sorting, eliminating unexpected typography bugs in company HeadlessUI components (comboboxes, popovers, etc).
Senior Frontend Engineer / Software Team Lead
Tahzoo • October 2022 – June 2023, Washington, DC (Remote)
- Emphasized mentorship of early-career developers. Maintained high velocity and code standards by assigning tasks to match skill levels.
- Convinced Fortune 100 client to use Tailwindcss in new component library (over Styled Components) via a 3-hour live demonstration of Tailwind's extensibility, usability, and performance benefits.
- Implemented optimizations to Docker/Kubernetes workflows, enhancing performance in production and reducing deployment time from 50 minutes to 12, a 75% improvement.
- Kept dependencies up-to-date using coded tooling; kept JavaScript configuration files in sync across repositories by running tests in CI to ensure team addressed lint warnings before merge.
Software Engineer
Clevyr • March 2022 – September 2022, Oklahoma City, OK (Remote)
- Implemented documentation, testing, redesigns, and new features for multiple projects in company portfolio, increasing test coverage on one project from 0% to greater than 90%.
- Collaborated with DevOps and Backend developer in launching a client's web application in timely manner (within 7 days!) to meet seasonal selling timeline.
Software Engineer, Founder
Vepify • October 2017 – March 2022, Irvine, CA (Remote)
- Solo founder of bootstrapped startup, raised low six-figures. Developed application using React / Redux Frontend and Express.js backend.
- Deployed app to combination of AWS Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, ELB) and traditional cloud infrastructure (ECS, EC2, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Route53).
Software Engineering Consultant
New Earth Technologies • October 2014 – August 2017, Austin, TX
- Built client websites for small businesses and helped small business owners manage online presence via Yelp, Google Reviews, Squarespace, and social media.
- Mentored junior machine learning engineer building recommendation algorithm in coding best practices and sustainability in software design using Python, pandas, numpy, and flask.
Fullstack Developer / Software Initiatives Officer / Managing Director
Legacy Bank • May 1998 – October 2014, Hinton, OK
EDUCATION
Bachelor's • Baylor University - Waco, TX • 2011
RELEVANT SKILLS
CSS, Node.js, HeadlessUI, Tailwindcss, TypeScript, React, Vue, Accessibility, Workflows and Automation, NextJS, Vite, CI/CD, Rust, GitHub Actions (particularly for Rust binaries), Campaigning Clients and Vendors for Needed Features or Approvals, Performance optimization, Documentation Writing, Leadership