As the engineering manager for the Learning Assistant team:
• Managed a team of ~5 direct reports, including interns who later returned to Quizlet fulltime and fulltime engineers that were promoted and/or recognized for excellence in their roles
• Coordinated projects and agile processes across functions (product, design, ML/DS, marketing)
• Defined, set up, and reported on operational and performance tracking metrics (Datadog)
• Guided and implemented parts of the sunsetting of the premium content marketplace

Engineering Manager

As part of the founding team in the new Quizlet office in Denver, CO I helped take the premium content marketplace from a generalized proof of concept to a test and certification prep resource with new features for studiers and verified content creators.
• Optimized product pages for speed and search engine results (SEO)
• Built new content bundling options and study modes to increase value and average selling price
• Designed and built a flexible content pricing system
• Ran A/B tests to determine optimal pricing and purchase duration
• In Fall of 2020 I moved to the Learning Assistant team to work more directly on our ML- and learning science-driven study tools.

Senior Software Engineer

At HomeAway I architected and developed new products and features for property management companies delivered as single-page apps within larger legacy web applications. I also coordinated communication and built alignment across teams in order to deliver on our organizational goals.

• Launched Market Maker revenue management at RezFest 2017 by scaling UI, microservices, and data stores from 1-5 properties per view to thousands per view.
• Saved hundreds of hours of work per month with an automated payment reminder and collection service alongside a self-service, responsive UI for guests to resolve payment issues.
• Increased booking conversion rate for legacy systems by improving quote-time rate accuracy with web services using a newer and more expressive data structure.
• Mentored and gave feedback on junior developers to help grow their skills and careers.

Principal Software Engineer

• Streamlined the lead management process by ingesting inquiries from multiple sources and providing a realtime shared UI for reservationists to prioritize, respond to, and convert inquiries into bookings.
• Built a customizable and performant reservation grid for viewing availability and creating new reservations across thousands of properties at a time.
• Established and led a community of practice for .NET development across teams at HomeAway where we held tech talks, identified and delivered projects for shared components and infrastructure (such as a common deployment platform and a feature flagging library), and discussed tough problems and elegant solutions from throughout the organization.
• Presented tech talks on topics such as CI/CD/CO, integration testing, Octopus Deploy, Git, and more.

Staff Software Engineer

At Amadeus I worked on many projects across different industries, usually for between 3-12 months at a time. This included greenfield development for startups, staffing for other software companies in need of throughput or outside expertise, and maintenance and upgrades for existing systems.

• Created high-level system designs with specific details around budget, risk mitigation, and flexibility.
• Introduced or strengthened quality-improving practices like iterative design and development, continuous integration, and layered application patterns.
• Trained and educated other developers through code and design reviews, mentoring, and presentations on development topics like jQuery and Dependency Injection.
• Created and improved a standardized build & continuous integration process.

Example projects:

An enterprise system for a bicycle rental startup.
• Evaluated the high-level and detailed business requirements for technical
feasibility.
• Created the development plan that identified and mitigated potential risks.
• Led design discussions, clarified requirements, and worked with the team lead to
ensure that development tasks were well-defined and would enable the best
solution possible.

An eCommerce SaaS startup that hosted branded online stores for its customers, who
then sold merchandise to the end customer.
• Clarify requirements and support requests with stakeholders.
• Integrated with multiple payment processors and third party systems.
• Created flexible theming, templating, and reporting systems.

Personal details

Kevin G.

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