My Resume

• Led the Asset Tracking product group and the Fuel Services team. Responsible for management, strategic planning, project management, and partnership with our product team
• Grew the Atlanta product development organization from 0 to 25 in around six months and ensured that all new hires ramped up successfully
• Led teams in multiple product areas, quickly acclimatizing to an unfamiliar industry, programming language, and front-end framework
• Worked with other engineering leaders to shape policy around hiring, promotion, evaluation, and culture
• Implemented strategic changes to our engineering-wide hiring practices which increased our Atlanta phone screen pass rate from 10% to 60%
• Served as a member of the company Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and the executive sponsor for the Atlanta Women of Samsara Employee Resource Group
• Led and sponsored the Samsara Engineering Interview Working Group

• Developed the company’s engineering management practice and hired a team of managers to implement it
• Oversaw the recruiting, interviewing, and hiring process, allowing us to nearly double our team in 18 months
• Led a product development organization of around 40 people through 5 managers (the entire enginering org was fewer than 50 people)
• Worked with product team leadership to improve product and engineering process to improve focus and throughput
• Standardized and implemented new evaluation, title, and compensation programs for engineers
• Ensured equitable pay within software engineering by moving to a fixed-point salary system and convinced hesitant executive leadership to increase engineering pay levels across the board to bring them closer to fair market pay
• Sponsored CallRail's engineering apprenticeship program, guiding and coaching an early-career engineer in their leadership of the program
• Protected the company from liability by helping executive leadership to see the discriminatory impact of some proposed policies and decisions

• Increased team velocity by 50% in six weeks by managing focus and helping the team adhere to agile principles
• Oversaw a team of remote contractors on a mission-critical project; helped the team deliver their project within the expected time frame
• Ramped quickly and was able to lead important technical decisions in my second week

Software Development

• Designed and built v3.0 of MailChimp's API to handle 10 million requests per day
• Worked with the design, marketing, and partnerships teams to ensure a smooth launch
• Worked closely with our mobile team to allow the Mailchimp mobile app to be a launch day app on the first Apple Watch
• Inherited an API with a mass of unaddressed technical debt, bugs, and feature requests; prioritized work and communication to keep everyone happy
• Evaluated, got buy-in for, and implemented an error monitoring tool that reduced in-bound emails by more than 10,000 emails per day per developer

Engineering Leadership

• Became the company's first full-time Software Engineering Manager and designed that role to be effective within the organization
• Designed and wrote the 2016 engineering hiring plan
• Developed a Software Research and Development tracking program which saved the company tens of thousands of dollars in tax liability
• Worked with other managers to create actionable and clear job descriptions and expectations for engineers
• Organized those job descriptions to allow engineers and their managers to easily track performance and career growth
• Improved the code review culture to increase participation and allow our less experienced team members to feel comfortable reviewing pull requests

• Developed a program to handle in-bound requests to the dev team from internal teams (like Ad Operations and Developer Relations)
• Built a team to handle those in-bound requests, allowing high-priority requests to be addressed quickly without derailing other priorities; the team's focus was addressing issues that were difficult or costly across the entire code base
• Worked with internal stakeholders to assess priorities and communicate progress; helped reason for the work and the urgency of it
• Found and fixed a previously undiscovered bug in our billing system which was costing the company $12,000 per month