Strategic Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience scaling high-performance platforms from seed-stage startups to global enterprises. Proven track record of directing large-scale digital transformations including The Minnesota Star Tribune, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair.
Partnered with internal R&D teams to integrate Context Lens, an AI-driven contextual graphics system, into RealClearMedia’s platform to automate data narrativization.
The Minnesota Star Tribune: Steered a cross-functional team of 30+ engineers and designers to execute a full migration to Next.js and Vercel, resulting in a 35% YoY increase in digital subscriptions.
RealClearMedia Modernization: Directed a company-wide transition to a modern stack (Next.js/PayloadCMS) to unify fragmented workflows and enhance editorial velocity.
RealClear Polling Migration: Oversaw the transition from legacy PHP to a headless architecture (Contentful/Next.js), implementing automated Lighthouse and SpeedCurve gates to elevate Core Web Vitals to the 80-90+ range.
Led Next.js/React platform for patient care navigation on a >$100M-funded company (investors include NEA, Lux, Goodwater, Horizon Blue Cross, Susquehanna).
Implemented design system + CI quality gates (Storybook, ESLint, Sonar). Outcome: cut UI delivery cycle ~40% and lifted patient engagement ~25%.
Led a mission-critical technical response during a record-breaking traffic event; leveraged performance engineering to maintain site stability and sub-second checkout speeds, resulting in 13,000 new subscribers within a 24-hour window.
Managed managers, led a geographically dispersed team of 25-30 engineers responsible for: Bon Appétit, Traveler, Epicurious, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair.
Spearheaded a performance initiative that drove Vanity Fair PageSpeed scores from ~25 to 90; coordinated paywall and speed optimizations to triple YoY paid-subscription growth across the brand portfolio.
Orchestrated a department-wide web performance program, institutionalizing best practices and achieving a 25% efficiency improvement across all Condé Nast brands.
Senior Engineer -> Engineering Director -> Interim CTO
Kandu (kids app creator): Led eng through $2.4M betaworks-led seed round; shipped iPad no-code creation experience.
AlphaWorks (equity crowdfunding): Stabilized engineering through leadership transition; platform launched with co-investment from Founder Collective, OATV, Box Group and early syndication with SV Angel, Lerer Ventures.
Early engineer at a startup that scaled into a unicorn (>$1B valuation, IPO via SPAC in 2022); joined at ~10 employees and built core features as the company grew rapidly.
Developed major front-end systems for seat maps, event discovery, and checkout UX, directly impacting conversion during high-traffic events.
Co-developed Sixpack, an open-source A/B testing framework that became widely adopted beyond SeatGeek and remains a well-known experimentation tool in the developer community.