Multi-product execution
Manage two teams across Education.com, Takeoff by IXL, and adjacent product areas by helping teams coordinate plans, clarify ownership, and move work through delivery.
Development Manager @ IXL
Full-stack engineer turned engineering manager.
I support product teams across IXL, including Education.com and Takeoff by IXL, with a focus on execution, ownership, and helping growing teams make complex problems manageable.
My background spans hands-on product engineering, analytics systems, cross-functional project leadership, hiring, mentoring, production support, and team development. I am especially interested in how teams evolve as responsibility, product scope, and user impact grow.
7+ yrs
Building and leading at IXL Learning
8
Peak direct reports, including an intern
14M+
Subscribers supported by analytics product work
220+
Engineering interview rounds conducted
Current Focus
I work where product execution, engineering judgment, and team health meet: aligning priorities, shaping ownership, and keeping teams effective as their product areas grow.
Analytics systems at scale
Built and led work on teacher-facing analytics systems, including reporting infrastructure, backend design, frontend implementation, and production support.
Team growth
Mentor engineers, support interview loops, onboard interviewers, facilitate meetings and learning groups, and help teams share responsibility more clearly.
Leadership Style
I like operating close to the work: enough technical context to ask useful questions, enough people context to make the path forward feel less tangled.
Calm delivery
Coordinate across engineering, product, design, and QA so projects have a clear shape from early planning through post-release follow-up.
Practical technical judgment
Draw from full-stack experience in Java, React, data stores, queues, caches, CI, production debugging, and analytics infrastructure.
Shared ownership
Help engineers grow into broader responsibility through mentoring, review, documentation, process habits, and clearer team conventions.
Experience
A career arc from full-stack product engineering into project leadership and development management.
Development Manager
Manage two teams across multiple product areas including Education.com and Takeoff by IXL, focusing on execution, alignment, team structure, and ownership as the organization evolves.
Engineering Project Lead
Worked closely with a Teacher Analytics team of about eight engineers, with up to eight direct reports including an intern, to drive key initiatives across engineering, product, design, and QA.
Senior Software Engineer
Contributed to teacher-facing analytics systems, led medium and large initiatives, mentored junior engineers, reviewed APIs, and supported team reliability through production triage and ownership.
Software Engineer
Built product features and infrastructure across backend, frontend, reporting, PDF generation, data jobs, and internal tooling in a collaborative cross-functional environment.
Early Work
A small archive of student-era projects. They are less central to my current work, but they capture the curiosity that pulled me into software in the first place.
