Ashley’s Resume

Summary

Accomplished senior frontend engineer with over 11 years of experience architecting and delivering clean software solutions and leading high-impact projects. Expert in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern testing frameworks. Recognized for driving technical excellence, mentoring engineers, and executing complex initiatives that improve scalability, user experience, and revenue growth. Adept at distilling technical complexity into actionable solutions and fostering collaboration across engineering, design, and product teams.

Skills

Professional Experience

Currently enjoying my time at ClassDojo, working towards creating greater experiences for teachers, students, and parents globally as part of their talented and extremely agile Teacher Growth team.

• Optimized the district leader verification request flow by creating an end-to-end solution to surface verification requests to ClassDojo’s admin interface for easy review.
• Elevated developer experience by consolidating complicated and confusing experimentation logic for experiments incorporated and shipped into larger holdout experiments. Created a new database schema, API endpoints to encapsulate logic, and updated web and mobile clients to consume the new APIs.

As a strategic technical leader at HubSpot, drove cross-functional initiatives resulting in a 19% improvement in self-service monetization rate through experimental purchase flow solutions. Known for exceptional project leadership, clear communication, and the ability to navigate complex technical ecosystems.

• Led HubSpot’s most complex pricing transformation by serving as Technical DRI on the pricing page for the company-wide seats-based pricing model launch, coordinating across multiple teams. Ensured backward compatibility and prevented invalid product purchases through strategic validation systems.
• Demonstrated exceptional leadership agility by unexpectedly stepping into the acting Tech Lead role for the Self-Service Monetization team for most of 2023, successfully balancing strategic leadership responsibilities with hands-on engineering contributions while maintaining all project deadlines and deliverables.
• Architected and delivered critical monetization solutions that improved self-service monetization rate by 19%, developing and deploying new customer purchase flows that significantly reduced friction points and increased product comprehension for self-service customers.
• Fostered cross-team knowledge sharing through comprehensive documentation covering the pricing and packaging business logic, FinTech APIs, and eligibility rules for purchasing, far beyond the scope of the typical Growth engineer.
• Established scalable technical foundations by creating and launching a navigation embed repository, enabling multiple Growth teams to implement navigation components without requiring standalone repos. Delivered a 5-point conversion rate increase through experimentation via this solution.
• Advocated for inclusivity by organizing and leading monthly virtual meet-ups for Black engineers at HubSpot, fostering a culture of belonging and empowerment among underrepresented groups.

Primarily worked on the front-end design and development of the Discovery Environment (DE) platform. Advanced into back-end development with some dev ops surrounding Kubernetes. Grew into managing the DE’s QA department.

• Built highly used, critical features in the DE such as the interface for sharing with collaborators, creating and managing teams and collections, and the data view - the basis for most other first-class pages in the DE.
• Modernized the DE’s user interface and tech stack by transitioning the DE from Google Web Toolkit to React with the NextJS framework, enabling more rapid prototyping and development of components and features.
• Increased accessibility, mobile-friendliness, and standardized CyVerse’s user experience across products - a long time goal for CyVerse.
• Implemented backend features in Clojure and NodeJS by writing SQL queries and adding API endpoints for fetching Featured Apps, the primary apps view in our application, and first-class instant launches. Also completed the front-end aspect of these features.
• Assumed the management role over the QA department, previously headed by 2 full-time engineers. Increased manageability of the QA testing repository by enforcing best known git practices and decreasing cruft by 70% without losing test coverage.
• Mentored and lead students within our QA team, assigning tasks and exposing them to QA, dev ops, and frontend and backend development.
• Authored internal documentation outlining onboarding steps, troubleshooting processes, and deployment processes. Additionally wrote external documentation such as the developer contribution guidelines for our UI repository and various wiki pages for users.

Managed the integration and development of all cache and IO tests used to indicate the health and stability of a product in those areas. Conducted thorough data analysis and managed workflow and communications between test development engineers and failure analysis.

• Acquired and managed the rapid development of the cache and IO modules, over 40% of the area on the Tangier and Anniedale chips.
• Enabled our team to meet the organization’s need for leaner, more efficient teams by taking on the modules and workloads previously managed by 3 full-time engineers.
• Coded Tangier and Anniedale’s product-specific template for detecting and repairing defective arrays leading to a ~24% uncore array yield improvement.
• Improved yield by 1% on Tangier and influenced design decisions on Anniedale through the extensive debug work done on voltage level detection.
• Performed thorough data analysis, met aggressive product schedules, and prevented time-consuming mistakes through extreme attention to detail.
• Received highly selective Manufacturing and Development Organization Achievement award for the work done on Anniedale to achieve Product Release Qualification in less than 2 quarters from first silicon – a record for Intel.

Assisted senior developers part-time to write SQL scripts for extracting specific sets of data, facilitated the debug and completion of coding projects, as well as debugged or enhanced helper scripts used by the team to expedite routine tasks.

• Reduced queued topography exploration missions by building a class in Java to analyze images and suggest stereo-pair candidates from previous explorations’ images.
• Debugged 8 critical time-saving scripts used by the team to facilitate faster workflows through learning Perl and SQL.
• Adapted quickly to the team’s strict coding methodologies and conventions to contribute to the project effectively.
• Coordinated and communicated with different team members for requirements gathering to complete projects on time.

Responsibilities included on-site technical support, network management, and integrating new technologies into the existing work flow. Over time, began to manage client portfolios and the analysis required for strategic business decisions.

• Served and managed over 40 users and 7 computer servers by providing technical support and network management resulting in an 87% reduction in IT costs previously outsourced to an external company.
• Created several macros to assist in volume data mining and data analysis to simplify and expedite critical business decisions on investments with clients. Required in-depth knowledge of business strategies, commandment of SQL query writing, and analyzing risk.
• Directed communications between technical vendors and portfolio stakeholders resulting in an increase in stakeholder satisfaction and higher confidence in doing business with the company.

Education