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.
Mission parameters
Blanket
Recovered from the selected-work archive. Readouts are outcomes, not decoration.
- 45–60s → .5s
- query performance
- 4 yr
- leadership chapter
- In-house
- engineering 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.