Director of Engineering at Stitch Fix.
Previously SVP of Product at Pet360 and Director of Engineering at LivingSocial.
From Silver Spring, MD. Currently living near San Francisco, CA.
It was quite the year. 2015 wasn’t quite as eventful as 2014—hard to top the birth of Joanna and selling Pet360 to PetSmart—but it was close. PetSmart went private in March, Joanna turned one, we spent two weeks in Korea, Aidan turned three, I left Pet360 / PetSmart in October,... Continue Reading »
Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. Chuck Close1 Sometimes the hardest thing about work is getting started. There are days where I wake up buzzing with ideas and dying to code. There are days when I wake up with nothing. One... Continue Reading »
I very much like the new1 confirmation email design from Open Table. This design is clean: It clearly presents the most important information (when and where your reservation is) and provides clear callouts to add to your calendar, share, change your reservation or cancel. The design also scales from small... Continue Reading »
When faced with a new project the first choice a technology leader has to make is whether to build it yourself or find some existing solution that you can buy. I'm an engineer by trade, and I'm fully cognizant that my natural inclination is to look at a service and... Continue Reading »
If you're going to limit the characters that can be used in a password, don't make your users guess what characters are "valid." I was particulalry amused that the "%" character simultaneously fulfills the "1 symbol or number" requirement and violates the "valid characters" requirement. Continue Reading »