Netcraft

My promotion to Team Lead encompasses leading my team through roadmap objectives with thorough capacity and dependency planning, technical ownership of customer-facing and developer-facing products, talent acquisition (up to director-level) and onboarding, mentoring personal and career development, SDLC process implementation and experimentation, and promotion of industry best practices.

I have been instrumental in improving processes and fostering collaboration both within my team and across the wider company. I collaborate closely with Product and Design, take a lead role in implementing agile industry standards, trialling ways-of-working improvements to identify what works best for the team, and influencing the company roadmap.

I have continued my lead on Netcraft's design system; maintaining its high code quality, unified design, accessibility and easy-to-use developer experience.

I care deeply about bringing the best out of my direct reports, identifying performance and learning opportunities, and helping them to grow in their careers. I value understanding people's strengths and desires and allocating work accordingly in order to find a good balance of velocity and job satisfaction. I've dealt with difficult conversations including team restructure, pay and promotion reviews, job unknowns and imposter syndrome.

I joined as Netcraft was beginning a greenfield project to build out a modern front-end tech stack with the desire of unifying their design system, UI and UX. I advised on technologies including Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind and Storybook.

I took ownership of the implementation and documentation of the design system. Through close collaboration with the designer and accompaniment of my own design expertise, we maintain a well documented and tested component library with an excellent developer experience. I frequently provided expert knowledge on design, UI, UX and accessibility-related matters.

This greenfield project has since expanded into the forefront of Netcraft's customer-facing offerings. All new and rehashed services are built with velocity using our modern tech stack and design system.

I drove implementation of both technical and process-related industry standards to improve Netcraft's approach to establishing requirements and designing new products.