The particulars.

Experience

1. 2025 - present

   Staff Software Engineer

   Q2 · Austin, TX

   • Lead AI tooling adoption across engineering by building internal tools, workflows, and guardrails that improve developer velocity and code quality.
   • Serve as a primary technical mentor and coach, helping engineers across multiple teams grow their skills, unblock complex problems, and raise the engineering bar.
   • Drive architectural improvements to the corporate design system and micro-frontend framework used by thousands of developers and visible to millions of users across more than 500 financial institutions.
   • Contribute directly to the codebase while setting technical direction, balancing hands-on delivery with strategic thinking.
   • Deliver conference talks and lead multi-day workshops on AI tooling, frontend architecture, and design-system advancement and adoption.
2. 2023 - 2025

   Software Engineering Manager

   Q2 · Austin, TX

   • Managed two teams totaling ten engineers, responsible for the corporate design system, micro-frontend framework, and flagship online-banking product stability.
   • Served as Product Owner for the design system, prioritizing and shipping consistent improvements adopted by hundreds of developers.
   • Maintained hands-on engineering involvement by contributing code, writing tests, and leading incident response.
3. 2021 - 2023

   Staff Software Engineer

   Q2 · Austin, TX

   • Rebuilt trust with internal stakeholders through transparent communication, regular training, and responsive support, improving cross-team collaboration and adoption.
   • Authored a multi-year technical roadmap that aligned design-system evolution with broader product strategy and organizational goals.
   • Championed a testing culture by driving aggressive test-coverage increases, directly reducing bugs and regressions across the codebase.
4. 2019 - 2021

   Senior Software Engineer

   Outstand · Atlanta, GA

   • Created an accessible design system and implemented it across the product codebases.
   • Collaborated with award-winning designers to create an accessible and engaging user experience.
   • Built features using React Native, Elm, Ember, and CoffeeScript.
5. 2016 - 2019

   Senior Software Engineer

   Q2 · Austin, TX

   • Became the point person on accessibility, building and refactoring components and features to comply with WCAG standards.
   • Gave talks and training on the value of writing tests and how to build more optimized frontends.
   • Contributed to the groundwork that later became Q2's micro-frontend framework and company-wide design system built with web components.

More history is available upon request…