Michael Liu

Managed a team of 3 engineers and was responsible for their mentorship, growth, and job satisfaction

• Held biweekly 1-1s to discuss concerns and opportunities
• Served as a line of communication between the team and our VP of Engineering

Interviewed potential engineering candidates to assess technical skills and cultural fit in order to grow the development team by 50%

Delivered a "contact consent" feature for our EU customers to manage GDPR preferences

• Designed a more microservice-y approach to decouple contact consent from our database
• Delegated tasks and features to the appropriate engineers inside and outside of the team
• Migrated existing custom customer data into the appropriate standardized fields

Optimized query performance by 50-95% for customers with millions of data records

• Examined EXPLAIN plans to identify poorly indexed tables
• Extracted common table expressions consolidate shared queries and increase performance

Rearchitected the web client data flow to normalize Redux state

• Wrote tickets to distribute the work amongst members of the frontend engineering team
• Reduced duplicated data stored in the global store by 10%

Mentored 2 frontend engineers and an intern directly to establish coding best practices

• Reviewed code changes to discuss potential optimizations and code-maintainability improvements
• Led biweekly frontend "guild" meetings to promote development of planning skills, coding best practices, and cross-team collaboration

Collaborated with the product team and other sr. engineers to redesign database tables to normalize data model

• Designed workflow diagrams to identify loopholes
• Discussed, clarified, and documented unclear domain-specific terminology

Planned and upgraded React from v15 to v16 to take advantage of hooks and other more modern libraries

• Upgraded Webpack from v3 to v5 to impove build speed by 30%
• Implemented Husky to run ESLint and basic code quality checks on staged file

Implemented a customizable, shareable, scheduleable reporting engine to modernize analytics for our customers

• Designed a rudimentary system to generate SQL statements through Javascript to standardize SQL statements
• Implemented d3 charting to display data visualizations both on the web and in pdf exports

Established documentation of team coding styles and best practices in Confluence

• Documented onboarding process for setting up a local development environment
• Created a repository of useful libraries, applications, and learning tools for new developers

Collaborating with vendors to build a data warehouse to run cross-company data analysis

• Maintained ETL code for AWS Database Migration Servce, Batch jobs, and Lambdas to consolidate data from MySQL to S3 to Redshift
• Constructued OLAP data models to facilitate data analysis in Redshift and Tableau
• Implemented a Tableau embed and built custom dashboards for internal and external use

Developed 10 microsites for 6 national brands to increase brand internet presence

• Built in Ruby using the Sinatra framework and deployed to Heroku
• Collaborated with designers to create mobile-friendly websites and designs
• Updated Adobe Experience Manager templates and content

Developed new features for an event tracking application for the internal experiential team

• Built in Ruby on Rails and deployed to Heroku

Developed an international company's corporate social responsibility site

• Created user journeys, wireframes, and ux design

Implemented brand identity and content changes in Adobe Experience Manager for 5 national brands

Set up AWS Elastic Beanstalk to support WordPress for the company website

Collaborated with 3rd party vendors to create and update content in 3 iOS applications

Collaborated with multi-disciplinary team to pitch rebranding campaign based on new strategic direction for national account and created digital concept designs

Contributed to discussion about content-centered design best practices

Responded to clients' requests regarding updates in timely and efficient manner

Improved user experience for branded digital applications and websites

Applied troubleshooting processes to fix existing code and content on brand web pages