Raven C

Leads a cross-functional team of 18 ICs to build out the Mailchimp mobile product Manages, mentors, and finds growth opportunities for 7 direct reports Works with other teams and engineering managers across different organizations and products to resolve escalations and dependencies with minimal friction Manages the backlog and workflow of 3 codebases using JIRA Led and delivered the first localized app at Mailchimp. 70k active users in the first month. Crafted a defined process to manage 2 offshore vendors who oversee testing and language localization Formed a new team; crafted norms, ceremonies, and encouraged best practices for estimation Co-manages a peer mentorship program for managers and above to support and learn from one another Built cross-functional relationships with product managers, designers, analysts and others to support and implement mobile requirements Quickly pivoted and led an 8 week effort to deliver mobile landing pages to our users to get them online during the COVID crisis. Over 10,000 landing pages were published in the first 2 months. Promoted continuous improvement of the team's code, architecture, automation, and agile processes Formalized and defined the role of Feature Owner which empowers engineers to jump into project discovery and collaborate with teammates It resulted in both people's growth and project success. Collected timely feedback to evaluate the progress and shared it with other managers to guide the scaling of the role. Designed and implemented a “remote-first” interview process that received high praise from interview candidates Served as Events Chair for Hues, the Black employee BERG, where I ideated, planned, and executed multiple events

Spearheaded an On-Call Gameday training for engineers who are new to on-call to help familiarize them with the process before their first rotation Recognized small gaps in team coordination between content strategy, design, engineering, and QA. So, I created a biweekly meeting where squads members can better align. During retrospectives and other ceremonies, regularly suggested and encouraged well-received process improvements such as developing feature FAQs and focusing on writing more documentation Organized a Tech Time Tool Talk for Engineering where four of my fellow engineers and myself gave lightning talks on technical tools Regularly paired with a Front-End Engineer and a Support Agent to help them bolster their backend skills Worked to align Product Management, Engineering, Design, QA, Content Strategy, and Domain Reps with feature requirements and in-flight decisions, ensured proper grooming of JIRA tickets, and encouraged better processes Tackled ambiguous requirements around building out our backend monetization authorization layer to merchandise feature sets to ensure an on-time release Collaborated with other teams to provide guidance around the merchandising features their teams built Leveraged 3rd party APIs to build out social post reporting for Facebook and Instagram Wrote scalable backend PHP in a 10 year old codebase by adhering to a strict personal methodology of aggressive refactoring and isolating logic for testability and re-use Coached fellow engineers on their code architecture and system design

Developed and test drove 3 Rails microservice applications and 1 Ember microservice application Wrote extensible, customer-facing code features that could adapt to rapidly changing agile business needs Utilized AWS S3 for deployment and cloud storage of uploaded files and images Utilized JSON Serializer to connect Rails APIs to the client-side Ember application Reviewed senior developer’s pull requests and code samples

Developed and test drove Rails applications using RSpec and Capybara Expanded understanding of team oriented best practices such as Git and GitHub workflow Regularly pair programed with members of the Backend Team Reviewed other developers’ pull requests and code samples

I attended a 12- week immersive course in full stack development dedicated to designing and building web applications. I'm learning the following technologies and skills: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, CSS3, HTML5, GitHub, RSpec, Agile Methodology, APIs, Markdown, PostgreSQL, Pivotal Tracker, Bootstrap, MongoDB, and Trello

I recruited technical candidates for the entire SDLC.

Advocated for progressive values using New Media Wrote 3-5 Facebook posts concerning Georgia politics daily Gathered information and documents useful for background information Designed and implemented research political projects Drafted MoveOn.Org petitions championing progressive causes Performed basic office work duties of stuffing envelopes, crossing-checking mailing lists, etc

Recruited volunteers to work to towards electing Democrats in local, state, and national elections Informed members through social media platforms of our group’s functions, news, and events Connected with members on 5 social media platforms Created presentations in order to run a fun and informative meeting for 50-60 members Worked in conjunction with other student organizations to register voters Debated with College Republicans in 2-3 political debates hosted by various student organizations