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File 02 Engineering leadership

Scaling a product—and the team responsible for it.

Four years leading engineering through product growth, performance work, technical modernization, and team development.

Role
VP of Engineering
Period
2020—2024
Scope
Leadership / Performance / React Native
100 → millionsuser scale supported
0.5 secquery time after optimization
In-houseengineering team built

Field report

At Blanket, the engineering challenge grew from keeping an early product moving to creating a reliable platform and organization capable of serving millions of users.

I led work across web, mobile, data, hiring, onboarding, delivery, and product planning. A major performance effort reduced average query time from 45–60 seconds to roughly half a second and improved the experience on older Android devices.

The durable outcome was not a single optimization. It was a maintainable codebase, a dependable delivery rhythm, and an engineering team with the context and practices to keep improving the product.