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I was the first UI developer and third software engineer hired by the Zazzle founders. Over time I became the UI Engineering manager, leading and mentoring a team of up to 10 engineers responsible for delivering the user-facing features of Zazzle platform. We built a rich web framework in C# and Javascript that scaled Zazzle's online customization business into a global consumer marketplace. Revenue grew 20x between 2005-2014... As UI engineers, we worked with product, marketing, creative, and core engineering teams to deliver the experiences on Zazzle.com. We prototyped, user-tested, enabled site localization, instrumented for site-analytics and AB testing, optimized for SEO, redesigned as a mobile-first web application, and continuously delivered production code.

Primary location: San Jose