Mike Stop Continues

* Developed “serverless” headless browser platform, capable of scaling on demand globally to meet user demand for automation, testing, scraping, image generation, and more. * Leading user research, content marketing, direct outreach, and paid ads to drive growth.

ORG LEADERSHIP * Built three new teams serving engineers, admins, and analysts. Mentored budding leaders, increasing our leverage. Introduced async-first, document-based remote practices in support of 10-timezone spread. * Developed engineers across the entire Internal Engineering org. Wrote the hiring protocols. Organized cross-team collaboration. Facilitated education events. Prioritized dev happiness, productivity, and growth. AI PROJECTS * Lead all generative AI efforts, providing technical guidance and resources. Represented engineering in the company’s core AI workgroup, removing obstacles to experimentation. * Sped AI initiatives by developing a unified API and SDK for OpenAI, GCP Vertex, AWS Bedrock, HuggingFace, etc. Launched LLM playground for rapid prototyping of custom prompts and embeddings. * Launched GPT-4 Slackbot capable of multi-user conversations with contextual awareness and company data access, resulting in over 1k LLM interactions/day, saving 6 hours/week per employee. DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE * Made code development, deployment, and monitoring easy with a modern GUI to ease the management of secrets, environments, schedule jobs, logs, errors, containers, and scaling. * Drove adoption of modern DevOps practices with CI/CD plugins and templates for trunk-based development, feature branch deploys, and secret rotation. * Lead development of: A fast-feedback app with chat, email, and app integrations. A code-sharing platform with support for JS, Python, and Go. A collection of Go/JS libraries, middleware, and starter repos. INTEGRATIONS * Dropped costly external dependencies by building a robust API gateway to centralize security, permissions, caching, and docs across internal data sources. * Developed and improved dozens of integrations across internal systems, working with stakeholders, security, and compliance to plan for the next decade of growth. * Reduced new integration time from weeks to days by creating shared SDKs across common systems.

* Managed freelance developers to rapidly release our MVP on time and on budget, while also managing a stable of content creators, propelling our site into the top ten publishing blogs on Google within a year. * Reduced website creation time from weeks to minutes by providing users with a smart sync engine that automatically pulls their data from Amazon and promotes the right products at the right time. * Ensured professional design with best-in-class website features, including a neural net that makes harmonious color palettes, brand asset generators, automated CTAs, smart product sorting, and additional domain-specific tools. * Deployed across serverless architecture with state-of-the-art IAC libraries, monitoring, analytics, and CI/CD tools. * Spearheaded innovative product design and user research, managed the beta program, and engaged in early direct sales ensuring true product-market fit.