Experience
Agile Six
Technical Lead
October 2021 — present
- Architected the modern headless foundation for VA.gov, reducing content publishing times for thousands of editors from hours to under five minutes.
- Assisted with benefits claims processing improvements across the VA stack as part of the PACT Act. Including but not limited to: accessibility updates to custom React form inputs, improving OCR processing of PDF claim data in Python, and adding new features in React and Ruby for Accredited Representatives helping Veterans with the claims process.
- Rapid prototyping of technical solutions leading to major contract vehicle wins, receiving highest technical marks from government evaluators.
Coforma
Senior Software Engineer
January 2023 — June 2023
- Architected the Medical Bill Rights portal for CMS.gov with localized content in English and Spanish in support of the No Surprises Act.
- Led front-end implementation, providing direction to junior team members and actively building out the React form architecture including localization, field and schema validations, plus Salesforce and Drupal integration..
Instrument
Senior Developer
October 2019 — March 2021
- Developed a bespoke responsive component library combined with an A/B testing system with Craft CMS, allowing site builders to continously optimize with confidence.
- Rapidly prototyped brand explorations with React and Storybook for the former Twitter.com design team.
- Created custom responsive components for Google.org using Python and vanilla Javascript.
- Built new React components for Pinterest Business.
- Helped implement the achievements functionality for games and social sharing across the Epic Games platform.
Phase2
Senior Developer
June 2015 — August 2019
- Co-maintained our agency's front-end toolkit, enabling the rapid stand-up of new sites with atomic design principles & consistent processes.
- Helped multiple enterprise organizations migrate from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 efficiently.
- Won a Webby award as part of the team shipping the revamped Arsenal.com.
Highlighted Projects
VA.gov
Architected a Next.js build system for an existing headless Drupal installation to improve publishing times for VA Editors. With >55,000 pieces of content, growing daily, timely publishing is key. The legacy system's build times took a minimum of 45 minutes, sometimes closer to two hours! This new approach enables rapid publishing of content in under five minutes. It also provides editors the capability to preview their content exactly as it would appear on VA.gov before publishing, a major pain point of the prior process.
Medical Bill Rights
For the No Surprises Act, this portal has all the information citizens need for understanding their newly enshrined rights around medical billing, whether they are using Medicare/Medicaid or not. There are 26 different fact pages (localized in two languages, with support for more) and two separate React apps, also with localization support: a wizard to help users find the relevant fact page for their situation, and a multi-page form with client and server side validation that sends submissions off to a CRM for claims processing by CMS agents.
Greenhouse
A bespoke marketing website for a leading hiring solutions company, using Craft CMS, Twig and vanilla JavaScript. As a freelance front-end developer I joined a small team at Instrument and built Greenhouse's marketing website from the ground up. Collaborating closely with designers, we worked to design an accessible, responsive component library with a wide range of flexibility. Almost every component can be reversed, and every single page or component slot can be A/B tested, all controlled through the CMS itself, giving Greenhouse's marketing team full control to test optimal user flows to their heart's desire.