Developed, documented, tested, and reviewed Samvera software repositories.
Advocated and supported organizational process improvements..
Served on Samvera Connect planning committee as we transitioned from an on-site conference to a fully remote conference.
Chaired and participated to numerous community working groups; .
Served on the hiring committee for Samvera’s first employee; streamlining group decision making process by incorporating lightweight tools.
Impact
Introduced hiring methodology to normalize, expedite, and reduce bias in hiring process.
Lead working groups to develop shared understandings and approaches regarding multi-organization authorization needs.
In collaboration with consortial developers: designed, implemented, tested, and reviewed an incremental refactor from one tightly coupled storage layer towards an adapter pattern to allow for a variety of storage layers.
Architected and developed configurable feed query to improve transparency of article placement and enable iterative improvement of the feed experience. See Diving into Dev's Relevancy Feed Builder; which handles an average of 30+ unique authenticated views per second.
Refactored existing authentication/authorization towards consistent policies through continuous and incremental deployment.
Lead the architectural design to normalize user facing methods for embedding rich content into DEV.to and other Forem-powered communities.
Introduced inline documentation practices to improve contributor experience to open source code.
Reduced redundant code which eased cognitive load and often lowered computational cycles.
Sharing knowledge and development philosophy of decisions via public and internal blogs.
Served on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee with focus on improving hiring, development, retention, and advancement of diverse candidates and employees.
Technical product manager for an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to improve the accessibility and discoverability of cultural heritage objects stewarded by the Snite Museum of Art and the Hesburgh Libraries (marble.nd.edu); As one of three core project team members, responsible for sharing information throughout organizational hierarchies, coordinating and securing project resources, supporting project direction, and delegating decision making to appropriate experts.
Introduced and iterated on new hiring processes now piloted or adopted by multiple organizations.
Managed team working in Ruby on Rails, Golang, and JavaScript.
Managed migration of services services from on-premise to a hybrid AWS and on-premise ecosystem, depending on tehcnical and organizational service requirements.
Architected, lead development, maintenance, and enhancements for task-oriented collaborative mediated workflow (github.com/ndlib/sipity).
Adopted and advocated for use of static code analysis, code coverage, software testing practices, inclusive language in technology, and reporting up and out to larger communities.