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Work Experience

• Engineering Director, Condé Nast

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  Lead the digital content platform org (6 engineering teams, managing through 2 EMs and a staff engineer), owning content management (Copilot CMS), cross-brand syndication, editorial planning, rights management, platform APIs, digital asset management, experimentation, and a newsletter platform. The platform serves 100M+ daily requests behind 71 brand sites including Vogue, GQ, Wired, and The New Yorker.

  • Drove the platform toward a "Create / Consume" north-star architecture, migrating to CQRS to separate write-path (existing APIs) from read-path concerns; cut P95 latency on uncached requests from ~300ms to under ~120ms on migrated sites, rolling out brand-by-brand.

  • Secured executive buy-in for a dedicated team behind the Consume layer and a live GraphQL Federation supergraph (Apollo), now serving multiple subgraphs and consumed by three native apps and web, with adoption expanding across product teams inside and outside the CMS.

  • Leading a CTO-sponsored initiative to reshape how my teams build: driving agentic coding adoption over the past year, deploying an AI code reviewer to keep pace with rising PR volume, and making proprietary APIs agent-accessible via MCP and custom tooling.

  • Partnered with product, editorial, and SEO teams to embed AI into core editorial workflows, including cross-brand syndication translation (e.g. Vogue US → Vogue Japan), automated content tagging, image alt-title generation, and a pre-publish SEO recommendation tool, reducing manual editorial effort across the publishing lifecycle.

  • Partner closely with executive Product leadership to align platform roadmaps with business goals, embedding engineering in product planning rather than taking requirements downstream.

  • Migrated orphaned in-house systems, left unmaintained after organizational changes, onto supported enterprise platforms (Snowplow for data capture, Iterable for email, GrowthBook for experimentation), removing operational risk and single points of failure.

  • Drove observability across my teams' services, championing OpenTelemetry adoption to cut error rates ~65% and reduce MTTR ~30%, hardening reliability for multi-million-dollar tentpole events like the Met Gala.

• Senior Engineering Manager, Condé Nast

  Dec, 2021 - Jan, 20231 year 1 month

  • Led 3 cross-functional squads (3 EMs and 15 engineers total) across the US and India, on the Copilot CMS and Encore syndication platforms.

  • Scaled headcount 150% in one year, standing up Condé Nast's first two platform engineering teams in India.

  • Localized the CMS for 10+ languages and deployed platform APIs across regions, onboarding international editorial teams (migrating brands like GQ UK off their legacy CMS) and growing the platform to 32 brand sites.

  • Migrated the Copilot CMS frontend from EmberJS to React, the company-wide standard, lowering the barrier for engineers across Condé Nast to build in the CMS.

  • Streamlined editorial authoring in the CMS (auto-complete fields, suggested publish URLs, an improved asset picker, batch operations across gallery items, and formatting-preserving paste from Google Docs), cutting article creation from ~15 to ~8 minutes and galleries from ~20 to ~11.

• Engineering Manager, Condé Nast

  Sep, 2016 - Dec, 20215 years 3 months

  • Created Encore, a syndication service that grew into a standalone app for cross-brand publishing, now producing roughly 1 in 4 articles published across Condé Nast.

  • Led architecture and implementation of the home and channel page curation tools inside the CMS, giving editorial teams fine-grained control over their landing pages.

  • Built a custom schema, validation, and form framework exposing a DSL for building CMS forms without hand-writing EmberJS or markup, later reused in the React-based CMS.

• Sr. Software Engineer, Condé Nast

  Nov, 2014 - Sep, 20161 year 10 months

  • Joined Copilot in its first year and helped shape its early architecture, re-modeling the image and clip schemas and building an image-cropping tool still used by editorial staff today.

  • Built configuration and infrastructure tooling to onboard new brand sites onto the platform, used to launch 9 over two years.

• Sr. Software Engineer, Maker Studios (blip.tv)

  May, 2013 - Nov, 20141 year 6 months

  • Engineered high-scale video APIs, transcoding pipelines, and media-streaming services supporting 50M+ monthly unique views.

  • Built a next-generation web video player from scratch, improving performance ~35% across devices.

• Software Engineer, GroupCommerce

  May, 2012 - May, 20131 year

  • Built white-label e-commerce and merchant platforms with a focus on cross-platform mobile.

• Sr. Software Engineer, TheLadders

  Feb, 2007 - May, 20125 years 3 months

  • Owned engineering for the job-seeker side of a two-sided (job seekers and recruiters), high-traffic job-search marketplace.

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