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Where I've worked

I'm a full-stack developer who loves building products and web apps that end up in front of a lot of people.

2022 - Present

Northwind Commerce

Senior Software Engineer

Building the future of online retail

  • Shipped a redesigned product page that lifted add-to-cart rate by a fifth

  • Built the recommendation surface that suggests complementary products

  • Rewrote checkout as a three-step flow and halved the abandonment rate

  • Added live delivery tracking backed by a streaming events pipeline

2021 - 2022

Beacon Search

Senior Software Engineer

Building the future of discovery

  • Tuned the ranking pipeline so the first result answers most queries

  • Launched personalised result cards for signed-in readers

  • Reworked the query box into a keyboard-first, screen-reader-friendly widget

  • Added a private, on-device history so people can find a page twice

2020 - 2021

Corvid Social

Software Engineer

Building the future of small communities

  • Designed the group composer that made posting feel effortless

  • Built the people-you-may-know service on a shared-interest graph

  • Reordered the feed around recency and reciprocity instead of raw reach

  • Shipped an activity digest that respects notification budgets

2019 - 2020

Lumen Devices

Software Engineer

Building the future of everyday hardware

  • Rebuilt the companion app shell and cut cold start to under a second

  • Added a theming layer so each device family keeps its own identity

  • Improved the store surface that suggests companion apps

  • Instrumented usage so the firmware team could see real battery curves

2018 - 2019

Meridian Software

Junior Software Engineer

Building the future of everyday productivity

  • Modernised the desktop shell and removed a decade of dead settings

  • Introduced a density setting that adapts the interface to the screen

  • Sped up the document suite by lazily loading rarely used panels

  • Built the internal dashboard that tracks feature adoption per release

2026 — Built by Mila Vance