Summary

I am an experienced technical leader and people manager with more than 20 years of experience in software development. My experience has taught me the value of iterative development and the importance of a test first approach.

Work Experience

Stitch Fix, Inc.

Engineering Manager

August 2016 — July 2019 San Francisco CA
and New York NY (remote)

• Managed the engineering group responsible for the UK launch (first country outside the US).
  • Hired internal and external candidates to grow the team from 2 to 11 reports.
  • Scaled up by splitting responsibilities among three sub teams, each headed by a team lead.
  • Kept the team focused and stakeholders informed through the introduction of a simple weekly status report and burn down chart.
  • Launched the more than 18-month, highly cross-functional project on time.
• Spent one quarter leading initiatives to help the company’s engineering culture scale.
  • Led the development of a revised career ladder and rubric for Engineering.
  • Facilitated the bottom-up creation of a set of Engineering Principles.
  • Created the first Engineering Bootcamp for recent hires.
• Led the consumer web team (responsible for stitchfix.com).
  • Addressed an overwhelmed and backlogged team by growing quickly, from an initial 2 engineers to 9, over a four month period.
  • Improved predictability by instituting regular iterations, planning meetings, and retrospectives.
  • Sped up onboarding by creating a process for introducing new members to the team.

Principal Software Engineer

July 2015 — August 2016 San Francisco CA

• Acted as technical lead, manager, and product owner for the development of buying tools for Merchandising.
• Managed a team of three direct reports.
• Addressed stalled projects by introducing new product and project management techniques.
• Delivered an updated set of PO writing and assortment reporting tools.
• Led initial development and launch of a supplier portal.

Comcast Corporation

Engineering Manager

July 2014 — July 2015 Sunnyvale CA

• Managed a cross-functional team of 6 direct reports using a Scrum methodology.
• Successfully delivered My Family Finder, a family locator application.
  • Coordinated the efforts of 16 team members on the project.
  • Led concurrent development of iOS, Android, and X1 (TV) applications.
• Improved quality and timelines of deliveries by focusing additional team efforts on testing and code review.

Senior Software Engineer

September 2012 — July 2014 Sunnyvale CA

• Built the EcoSaver reporting functionality for the Xfinity Home web portal.
• Led development of a rules engine for use with home automation devices.

Mission Critical Labs, Inc.

Founder

2005 — September 2012 San Francisco CA

• Founded a consultancy focused on web development.
• Worked as both an individual contributor and leader of a small engineering team.
• Oversaw all aspects of the business and its operations.
• Built and maintained strong client relationships.
• Launched multiple large e-commerce sites, as well as several streaming video and interactive product customization solutions.
• Successfully delivered hundreds of projects for companies including Macy’s, Speck, ITVS, Life360, Good Housekeeping, Pepsi Bottling Group, and Rickshaw Bagworks.

Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP

Software Engineer

2003 — 2005 San Francisco CA

• Led development of the firm's portfolio monitoring application.

Nightfire Software, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

2000 — 2002 Oakland CA

• Proposed and led creation of a framework for implementing user interfaces.

Evolving Systems, Inc.

Programmer II

1998 — 2000 Englewood CO

• Designed and implemented components of telecom-related software, including a call routing engine.

KN Energy, Inc.

AP Technical Specialist

1995 — 1998 Lakewood CO

• Wrote custom data import programs and database reports.

Skills

• Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Ruby
• Other Technologies: CSS, Bison, Elasticsearch, Flex, HTML, Memchached, MongoDB, MySQL, Node.js, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Rails, Rspec, SQL, Unix/Linux
• Languages Spoken: English, Spanish, French
• GitHub: github.com/jeffreyhunter77
• Code Examples: github.com/jeffreyhunter77/memcached-mock — A mock of memcached for unit testing
  github.com/missioncritical/criticali — A small MVC framework developed internally at Mission Critical Labs for use on client projects

Education

Metropolitan State College of Denver

Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Spanish 2000

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