Experience

As you may know, they are a broadcasting company which provides satellite and internet radio. I worked in Digital Experience, where our team maintained the website as well as some internal tools.

My initial role was a Front-end Developer, and about two years later I was promoted to Senior Developer. My role and responsibility grew as I began to help more on the back-end. It was fun learning about the system, getting my hands dirty with Java, and helping catapult our code into a new era. I pushed to modularize our templates, making it easier to build what we needed both on the front and back ends. Around this time, the website was also redesigned, and I played a key role in bringing the new design to life.

Once again, about two years after that, I was promoted to Lead Software Engineer. My biggest accomplishment since then was leading the team's migration from Oracle WCS to Contentful and bringing NextJS, a React framework, into the picture. The result was a full second shaved off our page load times and a 20-point jump in our Lighthouse performance score. I also drove NextJS and TypeScript adoption across a team of seven developers, partnered with Level Access to take our ADA compliance from 64% to 94%, and led the hiring process that grew the team by four engineers.

In March of 2026, all of that experience leading projects and mentoring the team paid off, and I was promoted to Engineering Manager. A big part of this new chapter has been rethinking how the team measures and protects its own velocity: I led the shift from time-based estimates to a three-pillar framework built around Complexity, Uncertainty, and Effort, which bumped our average developer capacity from 10 points a sprint to 12, and we've since rolled the framework out to teams across the org to standardize how everyone plans delivery.

I've also been leading the charge on bringing AI deep into our day-to-day workflow. I introduced Claude Code and Codex across the team to automate sprint health reporting and run two rounds of targeted code audits, surfacing 46 tickets for legacy debt and accessibility gaps, then another 25 to improve our long-term test coverage. On the more surgical side, I used Claude Code to identify, update, and verify a required field change across 200+ Contentful content types, saving our content and QA teams an estimated four hours of manual work.

I also built a Claude Code and Codex-powered code review skill wired into our MCP integration layer, connecting to Jira, GitHub Enterprise, Chrome, and Figma. It validates pull requests against ticket criteria, runs functional tests, and does visual regression comparisons against production, giving the team an end-to-end AI-assisted QA pipeline before anything ships, and it's just as handy for going from a Figma component straight to working code.

On the culture side, I introduced EasyRetro and pushed for more asynchronous communication to cut down on meeting fatigue and protect focus time, and we're now averaging a 0.7-day PR cycle time. One of my favorite wins so far was shipping our account snapshot feature a full sprint ahead of schedule, mostly by staying heads-down on clearing roadblocks for the team instead of adding more process.

During my time at SiriusXM, I've interviewed potential candidates, planned and de-risked projects, coordinated across departments, and now lead a full team of engineers day to day. What I've learned about myself is that the part of development I loved most was never just the code; it was watching a team come together to ship something great. That's exactly what led me to embrace engineering management.

During and after the transition I was a key player in migrating our front-end code as well as bringing the new development team up to speed. I trained team members in New York, West Virginia, and India, making us one cohesive team. I also worked with management to institute a new workflow for the entire department to improve efficiency.

My time here was brief, just one year, but it was a formative experience that shaped how I think about process and teamwork ever since.

Everyone is probably familiar with Time Inc. They owned magazine brands such as Time, Sports Illustrated, Real Simple, and countless more. I never would have expected to work in the magazine industry, but my resume went out everywhere and I got a call.

During the interview process I had to take a Photoshop design and create a web page out of it. My soon-to-be manager was impressed at how quickly I was able to complete it. I was hired instantly.

During my time here, I helped modernize our email and ad tooling: improving HTML email compatibility through rigorous testing, and leading the shift from dying Flash banners to animated HTML5 ads using the GreenSock library, some of the first of their kind used across the web. I also modularized our page templates, which sped up development for both me and the overseas team I was leading, and built the marketing forms readers used to subscribe to Time's magazines.

I look back on this time with a lot of nostalgia. It's where I fell in love with building for the web, and I had an amazing run doing it.