Engineering & leadership
Technical work · People · Delivery
Working with other engineers
I've held management and individual contributor roles while remaining involved in technical work. At Olly Olly, I hired and trained engineers while building the platform. At Loka, I helped establish engineering practices. At CookUnity, my responsibilities included technical direction, onboarding and review across several applications and services.
When helping someone join a team, I want them to understand the product and the reasons behind the system's structure. Access to repositories is a starting point. They also need context about the users, the important workflows, how changes are reviewed and how the software reaches production.
In code review, I care about why an approach was chosen as much as what changed. That context often exposes assumptions worth checking before the code reaches production.
I've trained engineers in several of my roles, both as a manager and as an individual contributor. The goal is for someone to understand enough of the system to take responsibility for larger pieces of it without depending on me for every decision.
Full-stack, mobile and AI experience
My technical experience is easiest to describe through the work I've used it for:
- Backend and data: TypeScript and Node.js services, PHP and Symfony, API design, SQL databases, data migrations and integrations. This includes the backend foundations at Olly Olly, financial systems at Devnology and the Smart Fridges backend.
- Flutter, web and mobile: Flutter and Dart, React, React Native, TypeScript and JavaScript. I've worked on customer applications, operational dashboards, mobile rewrites and a progressive web app.
- Cloud and delivery: AWS, CI/CD, automated tests, preview environments and release workflows. My work has included defining infrastructure, advising other teams and changing how software is validated and released.
- AI in products: production features using multiple models and providers, plus experiments with how AI workflows fit into an application's architecture and user experience.