(The RealReal : 9/16-9/17)
Upon learning of a shift in business logic potentially adding $500K to the bottom line, worked with a junior engineer to apply an Occam’s Razor approach for planning necessary system changes; empowering said engineer to run point, taking the rest of the team with, delivering functionality without bugs and well ahead of project schedule.
Lacking a company-adopted product management tool, built spreadsheet for tracking engineering efforts as they facilitated delivery against business initiatives and key product priorities (against milestones tracked in Pivotal.)
Regarding Engineering org’s movement towards an Elixir-based SOA:
- Scoped 50K-ft-view project plan towards porting all functionality
- Coordinated efforts of local and remote engineers for prioritized, accelerated port of supply-side acquisition funnel from Rails to Phoenix
Provided high-level technical scoping for company’s best-performing (2017) lead-acquisition features:
- friend referral (via Friendbuy) and
- reconsignment (e.g. demand-side users selling items they previously bought)
Facilitated logistical and technical scoping around periodic (~2x/year) commission rule changes affecting key business metric : cost-of-consignment.
Led engineering effort around integration of third-party referral program (Friendbuy,) providing guidance that we could deliver in six weeks, then leading post-mortem around process inefficiencies preventing us from delivering before eight weeks.
Led representation around quality initiatives while interfacing with 3rd-party provider (Rainforest QA.)
Results
- Contributed strategically and tactically towards planning and executing work.