Resume
Experience
Senior software engineer, Microsoft, 2022 - present
Pipeline Templates Migration (2023 - present)
- Build an internal CLI for migrating Azure DevOps classic pipelines to secure and efficient templates that saved an estimated 9 years of work and minimized migration commits for over 600 engineers in just one month.
- Make product and design decisions that are data and customer driven.
- Develop and lead features with high impact.
Accessibility Insights (2022 - 2023)
- Maintain Accessibility Insights for Azure DevOps extension.
- Improve accessibility and high-contrast mode styling in Accessibility Insights web extension and documentation site.
- Provide support and learn from internal customers as they onboard to Accessibility Insights.
Senior frontend engineer, Mapbox, 2014 - 2022
- Maintain frontend for all docs.mapbox.com including React component library that is used throughout documentation sites.
- Built linters and tests to validate content against the team’s styleguide.
- Created user feedback feature to help improve documentation.
- Designed and built API playgrounds.
Instructional designer, Professional Development Program, 2011 - 2014
- Designed and developed responsive and accessible (Section 508) trainings using HTML, CSS, jQuery, and ColdFusion.
Adjunct instructor, University at Albany, 2011 - 2014
- Instructed Web Development, Intermediate Web Development, and Intermediate Interactive Design with an adaptive curriculum based on changing best practices.
Education
- University at Albany, Masters of Science in Information Science, 2009-2011
- Siena College, Bachelors of Arts in History, 2005-2009
Skills
HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, Node.js, React, AWS, APIs, Jekyll, Git, GitHub, writing
Writing
- SUPERYESMORE Keep your streak in the work week, May 9, 2017
- The Pastry Box Project Breathe with your stomach, March 29, 2015
- Mapbox Explore the X-Files, January 20, 2016; Make a snowfall map, January 28, 2015; From fast styles to advanced cartography, January 26, 2015; Using Github for your map design workflow, December 18, 2014; Emoji map markers, September 29, 2014
- CSS-Tricks ::selection, August 29, 2014; break-inside, August 21, 2014; column-width, column-span, column-rule, column-gap, column-fill, column-count, columns, August 15, 2014; Guide to Responsive-Friendly CSS Columns, July 25, 2014
Speaking
- JekyllConf Unconventional use cases for Jekyll, May 7, 2016
- FOSS4G NA Writing for everyone, March 12, 2015