Engineering Manager / Senior Engineer
Hackster.io
Hackster.io
As Engineering Manager / TPM and Senior Software Engineer at Hackster.io, I led the turnaround of a large top of funnel marketplace/community platform serving hardware developers worldwide.
My work focused on platform modernization, performance optimization, and compliance while maintaining high development velocity as the primary engineering contributor.
Key Achievements
- 61.5% YoY increase in codebase activity (2023→2024), sustained +30.8% into 2025
- Shipped GDPR Compliance System: cookie consent, GTM integration, location-aware popups
- Optimized FYP performance via eager loading and cached table migration
- Led major PostgreSQL database version upgrade with near zero downtime
- 12% Core Web Vital improvements resulting in 1.2s faster average page loads
- 96% query optimization on high-traffic pages
- Championed dependency upgrades improving security posture
- Mentored engineers through regular 1:1s
- Identified WCAG/WAI-ARIA accessibility best practices to improve upon
Technologies Used
- TypeScript
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Sentry
- Heroku
- CSS Modules
- Ruby
- React
- BigQuery
- GraphQL
- Sidekiq
- Google Cloud
- Webpack
- Redis
- AWS S3
- Fastly CDN
- Draft.js
- Algolia
- REST APIs