How I got here .

Where it started.

In middle school, my friend taught me to edit Neopets pages with HTML at a sleepover. That was it. I spent the next decade quietly learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by changing how my homepage looked, then how other people's homepages looked, then everything I could get my hands on.

I went to the University of Colorado at Boulder to study advertising, with a minor in Technology, Arts & Media. (I also learned to love snowboarding, hiking, and camping, and never quite shook any of them.)

My first job out of college was a customer-support seat at a startup called Kapost in Boulder. I was sitting next to the engineering team and watching how they worked, and the old itch came back hard. I started going to Women Who Code meetups with friends. Shoutout to my still-best-friend Kinsey Durham Grace, now at GitHub. We taught ourselves Ruby on Rails. After a couple of years of that, I bet on a brand-new thirteen-week coding school called Fullstack Academy, when bootcamps still felt like a real risk. Thirteen weeks of MEAN stack later, I was ready.

Off to the races.

My first move after Fullstack was driven by fear of unemployment. I declined the final rounds at Refinery29 and took the first offer I got. That startup folded within months. A bootcamp classmate then helped me into Priceline.com. That's the moment I knew this was my career, not a phase.

At Priceline, I rebuilt the legacy checkout flow in Angular for both desktop and mobile web. Then I moved abroad to TadaWeb in Luxembourg City for a chapter that was honestly more about living in Europe and traveling than any one shipped project.

Back in the U.S., I joined HelloFresh as a Staff Engineer with the intent of growing into management. I joined their six-month squad-lead-in-training program and fell in love with mentoring engineers. That's where I figured out that growing people into their full potential was the work I most wanted to do.

Then Guild Education, where I worked on cleaning and validating large datasets from academic partners to power revenue and revshare.

Today, at Gusto.

I'm an Engineering Manager at Gusto, leading two teams: Pro Workflows and Pro Integrations. Pro Integrations builds the connections between Gusto's payroll and accounting platform and the external tools accountants rely on (QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks, Sage Intacct, and a new partner integration delivered to closed beta in 2026). Pro Workflows builds the in-product experience accountants use to run their book of business inside Gusto Pro. Across both teams I lead five engineers spanning Senior through Senior Staff.

In a single recent quarter, my team delivered a new partner integration end-to-end, cut sync error rates from 15% to 7%, reduced average time-to-resolve from twenty days to nine, removed approximately 15,000 lines of legacy code and millions of obsolete rows as part of a multi-quarter monolith extraction, and migrated 85 GraphQL objects to a new authorization layer. We drove a 92% reduction in weekly production errors in the closing weeks of the quarter and posted a +57% PR throughput gain during an AI-tooling sprint.

Alongside leading the team, I invest in engineering management infrastructure. Lightweight automations, dashboards, and structured review formats that scale a single manager's effectiveness. A monthly operational review automation, an on-call rotation dashboard, a project-sync coordination layer, a structured calibration report format. None of these replaces management judgment. They free up more attention for it.