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• Software Engineer II, Acting Tech Lead - Accounts & Membership, Columbia Sportswear Company

  Jan, 2025 - Present

  Stepped into tech lead responsibilities as the team contracted from 9 to 3; own technical direction, final reviews, and daily mentorship of offshore contractors. Leading a full rearchitecture from a legacy stack to a modern React-based platform.

  • Leading a full rearchitecture from a legacy stack to a modern React-based platform redesigning OAuth/SSO flows, building shared middleware, and restructuring APIs for client-side performance

  • Designed shared infrastructure that unblocked the migration, preserved backward compatibility, and was adopted by other teams

  • Built observability from scratch for authentication and account flows - caught a critical issue during what became the highest-grossing demand hour in company history

  • Delivered multiple international product launches end-to-end, on schedule

  • AI Developer Tiger Team: prototyped agent-based developer workflows and wrote the org's guidance on responsible AI tooling integration

• Software Engineer II - AC/DC Team, Columbia Sportswear Company

  Oct, 2022 - Jan, 20252 years 3 months

  Core contributor on a loyalty platform migration, delivering new functionality and resolving launch-blocking issues across a complex vendor transition.

  • Led the end-to-end technical migration from SFRA to PWA Kit for the Accounts & Membership team, building React components and custom API endpoints with full backward-compatibility support

  • Architected a React-based loyalty system using custom hooks and the Context API, introducing strategic caching and state-management patterns that significantly improved data consistency

  • Architected the data model behind a progressive-profiling launch, enabling brand-specific personalization with minimal ongoing overhead

  • Co-authored the technical specification and drove performance improvements for a flagship membership relaunch that shipped on time

  • Contributed to a major membership re-platforming effort, migrating loyalty services and customer data to a new third-party provider while preserving a seamless experience for millions of users across 4+ brands

  • Invested in developer experience - tooling, documentation, and dependency health measurably improving day-to-day workflow for the broader engineering org

• Frontend Developer (SFCC), Hanna Andersson

  Feb, 2020 - Oct, 20222 years 8 months

  Front-end development in the SFCC ecosystem; focus on accessibility (ADA/WCAG), Core Web Vitals performance, and third-party integrations.

  • Built accessible, ADA-compliant user experiences using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

  • Improved Core Web Vitals and overall site performance through targeted code optimizations

  • Integrated third-party services to expand business functionality and streamline user flows

  • Collaborated with UX/UI teams to deliver responsive, inclusive, and visually consistent web experiences

• Front End Web Developer & SEO Specialist, Effective Web Solutions

  Jan, 2019 - Feb, 20201 year 1 month

  • Developed WordPress websites with focus on SEO optimization and performance

• Freelance WordPress Web Developer, Methodical Designs

  Nov, 2015 - Jan, 20204 years 2 months

  Freelance web development business specializing in WordPress solutions for small businesses.

• Afterschool Instructor, Coding With Kids

  Nov, 2018 - Jan, 20192 months

  • Taught coding fundamentals to elementary and middle school students

• English Second Language Teacher, EDUCAnet - gymnázium, střední odborná a základní škola Praha

  Aug, 2017 - Jul, 201811 months

  • Taught English as a second language to students in Prague

• Elementary School Teacher, Anderson School District #4

  Aug, 2015 - Jan, 20171 year 5 months

  • Taught elementary education with emphasis in Mathematics & Science

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