Lean Vilas

Roles

• Frontend developer: developing the frontend parts of an Angular application, along with promoting testing, and refactoring complex parts of the system.
• Mentor: helping the team learn how to think in software architecture and follow good practices.

Achievements

• Built more than 20 design-system-based components, and migrated more than 10 pages where these components were used.
• Incorporated best practices in the team to foster readability and clarity of code.
• Migrated hundreds of unit tests from Jasmine to Jest.

Roles

• People's lead: coaching the people in the team to have fulfilling careers, as well as running performance reviews and promotions discussions.
• Mentor: helping the team learn how to think in software architecture.
• Technical lead: providing guidance on technology and facilitating architectural discussions.
• Team manager: making sure projects are completed effectively and on time.

Achievements

• Built a self-organizing team.
• Built a framework for career growth based on transparency and commitment.
• Defined engineering salary bands and promotions criteria.
• Defined team roles at the company level, and meta-roles within the team.
• Defined the core architecture of our product, while keeping space for the team to experiment and learn.

Roles

• Technical lead: defining and developing the core parts of the system.
• Link to product managers: talking to PMs to make sure we closed the communication gap and could prioritize projects together.
• Process owner: making sure our process supports our needs in the best and simplest way possible.
• Frontend developer: developing the frontend parts of the system, along with promoting UX thinking and helping define visual style guides.
• Backend developer: developing the core logic of the business while making sure to have a sustainable architecture.

Achievements

• Developed more than 4 different products, from discovering the problem to MVP and to production-ready software.
• Migrated the frontend application from AngularJs to Angular 2.
• Made several core refactorings, like introducing a service layer and simplifying the access management system.
• Wrote unit, integration, and e2e tests.
• Developed several internal tools to simplify day-to-day work.
• Implemented the Shape Up methodology to reduce stress and overhead in every product team.
• Conducted several hiring interviews.
• Onboarded more than 15 newcomers.
• Designed and built the documentation for the engineering team on Notion.