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Skills

• Engineering management
  • Align engineer motivations with business goals
  • Foster a realistic culture of learning and growth
  • Proactively identify technical needs and opportunities
  • Thoughtful communicator and optimist
  • Capacity planning and resource allocation across competing priorities
• Web programming background

Experience

Earnest

Senior Engineering Manager - Personal Loans (Feb 2025 - present)

• Raised a strong team of senior and staff engineers to swiftly build Earnest’s new loan product
• Navigated complexity in an environment with evolving requirements and lack of strong vision
• Led integration with Plaid for bank verification and transfer
• Led integration with Peach financial for loan servicing
• Supported integration with Alloy for lending decisioning

Engineering Manager - Checkout (Jun 2023 - Jan 2025)

• Checkout V1 outperformed conversion target by more than 3x
  • Improved ‘approve to sign’ conversion by 16% during 50/50 experimentation
  • Raised overall platform V1 ‘app start to sign’ conversion metric by 15.7%
  • T10 and T30 median time in funnel improved by 29% (21% for desktop, 69% for mobile)

Handshake

Engineering Manager - Attendance (Jan 2022 - May 2023)

• Improved Handshake’s platform to surface relevant events for students and learners.
  • Most recent project increased impressions by 14.76% and event attendance by 9.67%.
• Crafted team-level processes to reduce friction for engineering work across 4 timezones.
  • Received perfect engagement score from direct reports on most recent company survey.
• Ensured engineers were supported and remained focused on impact during company re-org.
• Led engineering branding committee to build organic awareness of engineering.

The Zebra

Engineering Manager (Oct 2020 - Dec 2021)

• Spearheaded SEO revenue growth 5x during my tenure.
  • Increased efficiency for content writers in our Django CMS, scaling page count from hundreds to thousands.
  • Grew and maintained #1 SERP dominance for auto insurance keywords year after year by focusing on landing page performance.
• Creatively launched dependency-blocked accounts features.
  • Managed contract negotiations on authentication services.
• Technical vision and strong partner on multi-quarter product and lifecycle roadmaps.
• Empathetically guided the full team through the uncertainties of a global pandemic.

Senior Frontend Engineer (Dec 2017 - Apr 2019)

• Developed foundational page-building framework for the team to reduce complexity.
  • Led refactor away from knockout to vanilla JavaScript for performance.
• Mentored mid-level and junior engineers across frontend teams.
  • Introduced static analysis tools and typing.
• Overhauled marketing attribution logic to enforce consistent standards.

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