Matthew Hudson, Engineering Manager

Lead a product engineering team composed on Backend, Frontend, and QA engineers focused on developing features for our primary product.

Managed managers (five directs, total team of ~25-30 engineers) across some of Condé's flagship publications; ​Bon Appétit, Traveler, Epicurious, The New Yorker, ​and Vanity Fair.​

• Effectively staffed and built diverse teams who could continue to advance our products even in my absence.
• Fostered a collaborative work environment by combating a legacy "hero culture."
• Collaborated with my counterparts to; define department values, redesign engineering interview process (hire faster and better), improve onboarding (get new employees up-to-speed faster), and establish career ladder.

Earned the trust and respect of my stakeholders through effective staffing (a team of 4-7), prioritizing tasks that positively impacted readers, and then achieving Vanity Fair’s digital objectives.

• Collaborated with product and design, as well as reporters, photographers and editors in the newsroom throughout the full product lifecycle.
• Stabilized team engineering standards, process, and velocity.
• Created opportunities for engineers to own aspects of development aligned with their passions and career goals.
• Successfully completed (and ahead of schedule), three new web verticals (The Hive, Vanities, and HWD), alongside tentpole events including the Oscars and New Establishment summits.
• Surpassed web performance KPIs ahead of all 20+ Condé brands, evangelized our research and findings both company-wide and within the industry via conferences and meetups.

Led a team of three-to-five developers and rebuilt morale during a difficult leadership transition and major product pivot.

Worked directly with the CEO after a company pivot to build a new engineering team while also stabilizing early product roadmap.

Contributed to the architecture, development, and maintenance of several high-stakes web properties.