vork

on a mission to build products developers love, and along the way, teach the next generation of developers. Here's a summary of my work so far.

Vercel

i joined vercel early to grow next.js and our developer community. i built our developer relations team to teach the community about our products.

we spoke at conferences, wrote blog posts, and created videos. We built open-source examples and contributed back to the product. we translated customer pain back into the product roadmap. I shipped a lot of code.

since zoiniNg vercel in 2020, next.js has grown 1000%, now with 1 million active developers. next.js is one of the top software projects on gitHub and used to build wonderful products.

Hy-vee

Hy-vee, an almost 100-year-old grocery chain in the united states, wanted to build a new version of their digital storefront. I joined a team of product engineers working across web and mobile to rebuild their legacy .NET application (~500k MAU) with React and React Native.

On the frontend, I led our move from a custom webpack and React configuration to next.js and the latest React patterns. In the process, I shared my learnings online, helping educate members of the React and next.js community by creating courses.

Throughout my two years, I was able to work on some hard problems: decoupling a decade old monolith into microservices, working with a federated GraphQL API, learning and occasionally managing a Kubernetes cluster, building and implementing a design system, incrementally migrating individual components and routes to a new framework and infrastructure, and more.

Workiva

Workiva ($WK) is a cloud platform for data reporting and compliance. During my time at Workiva, I gained my first production experience using React. I worked on tooling to help predict and alert and regressions in our SaaS platform, building a product similar to open-source tools like Sentry.