Senior Software Engineer
JWX (formerly JWP Connatix)
Oct 2024 - Present
Continuous employment from Connatix after the merger: JWP Connatix (October 2024–December 2025), then JWX (December 2025–Present), focused on JW products.
- Designed and implemented the first feature A/B testing infrastructure for Vertical Video and Hive packages across 4 components; enabled configurable traffic splits, publisher/domain/region filters, and Jenkins start/stop workflows.
- Reworked GitLab CI to reuse dependency installs and package builds, run automated tests, and publish test previews for the main branch and individual merge requests.
- Owned Vertical Video technical delivery across player, advertising, and publisher-embed teams; built reusable inline/fullscreen UI and player-state modules and guided responsive interaction design.
- Extended video advertising across inline, carousel, and right-rail placements, integrating Google Publisher Tag and JWX ad providers with API schemas, configuration mapping, and dashboard controls.
- Designed and built an internal Stories MVP in TypeScript using AI-assisted, specification-driven development and a mobile-first design; implemented reusable cards, hub/article layouts, and fullscreen swipe/tap navigation.
- Designed and implemented a shared Datadog logging package and migrated vertical-video logging; built and refined A/B dashboards to distinguish eligible traffic and compare ad-impression rates.
- Implemented Global Privacy Control signal propagation across ad requests and tracking, and Global Privacy Platform forwarding behind a feature flag; added consent-readiness telemetry and validated changes with staged A/B tests.
