Business Projects
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What?
Self-service signup to trial Alteryx's suite of cloud analytics products.
30 day trial. Export compliance. Reach out to sales and support. Trial extension.
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Who?
Led a team of 4 engineers. Worked collboratively with other teams to include their products in the trial. Worked cross-functionally with marketing, sales, legal.
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Why?
Drive product-led Growth.
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Results:
Drives 1000 high-quality sales leads/month. Key contributor to sales.
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Proud of
quickly ramping up in a new organization and delivering.
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What?
Startup making construction project accounting software.
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Who?
Technical co-founder. Worked with two experienced construction execs to dogfood at their company. I built a webapp from the ground up, then worked closely with users to refine the experience.
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Results:
Clamshell manages $300 million worth of projects that bring in $80 million in annual revenue. Clamshell allows the same number of employees to accomplish more with less stress. Thanks to robust automation and thoughtful design, Clamshell has reliablity operated for 2 years with minimal effort required for upkeep.
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Proud of
keeping design + infra simple to allow dev time for features.
Teleprompter
(2011-2019)
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What?
Teleprompter
software for Mac & iOS. Incredibly feature rich (see the marketing website).
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Who?
Solo developer/businessperson. Built the whole thing + marketing + customer support.
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Results:
Over 20k units sold to date. Used by customers in various industries. (Entertainment, real estate, religion, etc.)
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Proud of
building an entire CRDT framework to support collaborative editing. Running a business.
Fun Side Projects
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What?
Collaborative drawing webapp. End-to-end encrypted. Infinite canvas. Supports text editing.
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Results:
Useful tool for myself that I use often.
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Proud of being able to immediately create a polished UX in an unfamiliar ecosystem. (Typescript, React, Node)
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What?
Collaborative TODO webapp with notes. Drag to rearrange.
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Results:
Indespensible personal tool.
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Proud of the two libraries I created to help with this project:
yeeql
and
simple-react-transition
Key Skills
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Able to effectively take a project "from zero to hero".
(Evidenced by creating Teleprompter, Clamshell, draw.fish)
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Quickly able to learn new technologies.
(Evidenced by picking up Scala for Clamshell,
TypeScript+React+Node for draw.fish, onboarding quickly at Alteryx)
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Able to develop deep knowledge about technologies.
(Evidenced by mastery of notoriously finicky Mac + iOS development for Teleprompter)
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Able to develop flexible + maintainable designs.
(Evidenced by continued maintainence + many Teleprompter feature updates, Clamshell requirements changing often during development.)
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Conquer hard technical problems.
(Developing CRDT algroithms for Teleprompter, Geometry problems for draw.fish)
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Be a leader.
Work with other developers, plan projects, and prioritize delivery of features.
(Alteryx)
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