I currently lead a team of six engineers in what would be considered the Professional Services department of the US branch of commercetools. Almost all of the implementation projects I've been a part of for this company have been on-time and on-budget. I've grown my team from just myself to myself and six highly skilled, motivated, and happy engineers in just under a year. I am currently enjoying all aspects of being an engineering manager - motivating my team, growing my team both in head count and skillsets. I'm currently focused on becoming the best engineering manager I can.

One of the things I'm proud of during my tenure was building out a proof of concept that helped land the company's second largest contract -- and then seeing the implementation of that project through. It involved working with many product owners from a fortune 50, along with their engineers, architects as well as engineers from commercetools and from a development agency. This project is live and our code is being executed millions of times a day as a result.

Before I put on the manager hat, as an engineer I was responsible for building out microservices to aid new and prospective clients on to the commercetools platform. I was on a small team to build a feature for the commercetools platform. The feature allows customers to be able to click, configure and deploy microservice-based integrations for their project easily. The frontend for this was in React/Redux, the backend was in Javascript ES 6 via Node. It utilized Kubernetes to manage the deployments.

I was also involved in the hiring process for new engineers - running technical interviews and administering and reviewing coding exercises. This involvement in hiring, onboarding, and more lead me to obtaining the manager role I currently hold.

I left when I was leading the support team. This team is comprised of a project manager, a few developers and myself. We provided extended development support for Metal Toad's various clients. The variety in clients means that the support developers need to have a wide range of skills to help each client with their requests. As the team lead I provide mentoring, technical direction to the developers on my team. I also conduct one-on-one meetings with the developers to help identify stressors, set goals with the developers, and continuing to provide development support as needed.

At Metal Toad Media I developed code for various clients. The projects I work on here were mostly Drupal sites. Here's a small sampling of some of the Drupal sites I worked on: FEARnet, InFocus, PVLD, Greenbiz, HerCampus, PECI. In addition to my Drupal work, I collaborated on a large HTML 5 JavaScript application, mGo, targeted for mobile devices as well as television set top boxes and smart TVs. I also had fun writing a small HTML 5 canvas game for Android devices via phonegap. I was introduced to python and Django here and have worked on custom Django apps, including the backend to Ken Burns America and contributed code to NotreDAM, and worked on the sony.com backend. I also aided in Puppet configuration and adding new puppet agents.

At Metal Toad Media I developed code for various clients. The projects I work on here were mostly Drupal sites. Here's a small sampling of some of the Drupal sites I worked on: FEARnet, InFocus, PVLD, Greenbiz, HerCampus, PECI. In addition to my Drupal work, I collaborated on a large HTML 5 JavaScript application, mGo, targeted for mobile devices as well as television set top boxes and smart TVs. I also had fun writing a small HTML 5 canvas game for Android devices via phonegap. I was introduced to python and Django here and have worked on custom Django apps, including the backend to Ken Burns America and contributed code to NotreDAM, and worked on the sony.com backend. I also aided in Puppet configuration and adding new puppet agents.