Gregory Waxman

Mentored the engineering team across multiple areas such as React, TypeScript, and GraphQL

Led a team of 3 engineers helping to reduce the load for the head of engineering

Created multiple ADRs for improving and unifying our frontend tech stack

Improved lambda development by reducing boilerplate, improving security, and adding functionality

Improved DX for engineers by introducing better tools and improving their configuration

Led development of our UI library based on shadcn/ui

Dramatically improved CI, ~50% speed up and ~50% cost reduction

Built, altered, and maintained GitHub Actions

Revamped the entire frontend, resulting in a 75% reduction in load time and significant productivity enhancements

Upgraded all tooling replacing previous unmaintained and outdated tooling

Led and guided the development of Rules Based Personalization

Created and built fully functioning CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes

Successfully learned, built, and maintained Cloudfront usage for frontend and API

Provided team leadership by offering guidance on solutions, mentoring team members, & inspiring others

Developed a Shopify app integration leading to two customer sales within the first two months

Reduced CI test time by more than 60%, leading to faster development and testing cycles

Enhanced monorepo webpack integration and implemented fast refresh for improved development experience

Simplified environment setup by automating AWS environment output usage

Improved component structure, variation, and implementations for better code organization and reusability

Led development on image, video, and face recording functionality over the span of six months

Conducted code reviews, ideation for technical improvements, and interviews

Managed very large code merges and conflicts across features

Provided leadership guidance and feedback, ranging from culture to roadmap

Reduced Pusher usage leading to over a 50% cost reduction, 80% reduction in scripting time, 66% to 93% reduction in total messages sent, and 98% reduction in React renders

Decreased total delivered JavaScript size by 50% for improved website performance

Successfully migrated IDs from audit tables from int to bigint with no downtime, ensuring uninterrupted operations

Updated project tooling from Webpack v1 to Webpack v5, alongside multiple Docker enhancements

Led all frontend development

Rapidly learnt basic Python including leveraging Trio to combine data from Google, Yelp, & Foursquare

Created a basic agile-like process to centralize and organize development

Led development of Google Vault Extension and Google Drive file proxy service acting as a model for future projects

Refactored and helped develop VJWT, a JWT spec with enhanced security features

Integrated in a FIPS compliant crypto library to meet the security needs of customers

Managed and mentored team members and contractors as a tech lead

Rewrote and extended key parts of the DLP rules engine, key to Virtru's success, and enhanced handling of complex violations

Developed voltron to allow for building a single extension from multiple independent repos

Created new OU functionality that included new db schema, associated documentation for schema changes, API updates, frontend architecture improvements, CSS and associated templates

Improved our Secure Reader loading performance, reduced bugs, and added a whitelabeling solution

Ran our knowledge sharing sessions

Led second round technical interviews

Contributed to several open source projects eslint, webpack, spirit-js, and more

Led the second phase of new feature development for OpsAssure, a scheduling and task management app

Handled all video player development and on Stre.am, which led to contributions to video.js

Architected, implemented, launched, and maintained a product for Core Care Medical

Contributed to new architecture decisions, refactored crucial code, and ported MySQL to MongoDB on 520

Mentored and taught a QA JavaScript and automation

Rapidly learnt and contributed to 520 ensuring a successful release to the VA, while providing mentoring and support to others

Filled the role of domain expert for Stre.am

One of two interface engineers responsible for frontend development

Implemented SquishIt, an open source JavaScript & CSS minifier, and created a higher level abstraction to streamline internal use

Learnt, introduced, and used LESS through Chirpy to improve readability and maintainability of CSS

Refactored and fixed several open source projects used internally, including SquishIt

Actively developed cross-browser compatible styling in IE7 through IE9, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome

Architected css architecture and hierarchy alongside general JavaScript practices for the frontend

Acted as a JavaScript mentor, reviewing code as it was checked in and advocating best practices

Took over as lead developer and improved our e-commerce product in multiple areas

Created an extensible shopping cart framework, used across teams & products, as the basis for all payment processing

Exclusively handled production issues, such as data corruption, experienced by clients for five months

Developed and implemented brand new functionality with server-side code, client-side code, and SQL

Introduced jQuery, leading to cleaner, more compatible code for the product

Led the Web Accessibility Initiative to support the needs of our clients

Learnt and used VB.Net and ASP.Net successfully without any previous experience with either