Problem

Patient-facing pages on a Gatsby + GraphQL + Contentful stack were slow to first paint — inside a regulated US healthcare environment serving HIPAA-compliant, patient-facing content, where that delay is a compliance-sensitive UX problem, not just a metric.

Decisions

Traced the bottleneck to the GraphQL + Contentful data layer, then proposed migrating off Gatsby to Astro rather than optimizing the existing stack in place. Paired that with an edge-delivery overhaul and a real-user-monitoring layer to prove the gains and keep them.

Implementation

Led the Gatsby → Astro migration, stood up AWS CloudFront edge delivery, and built production dashboards tracking LCP, CLS, and FID from real-user monitoring data — all while owning WCAG 2.1 AA and GDPR/privacy requirements through the same Agile sprints, and leading a 5-person frontend team through it.

Problem

A Sphinx-based documentation platform serving 100,000+ weekly visits had 10–20 minute build times, slowing CI/CD feedback for a team of 8 technical writers and every engineer waiting on a preview.

Decisions

Evaluated the toolchain and drove adoption of Astro to replace Sphinx, and paired it with a planned Python 3.8 → 3.12 migration across the build pipeline rather than patching the old stack incrementally.

Implementation

Owned the technical architecture end to end: the Astro migration, the Python version upgrade, dependency modernization and removal of deprecated packages, plus the CI/CD standards and component-library architecture that were then adopted across documentation and adjacent platform teams.

Problem

A ~500-component Angular v9 codebase, serving a product with 5,000+ active users and ~30s load times, was blocking the team from standalone components and newer framework capabilities.

Decisions

Planned and led the Angular v9 → v15 upgrade to standalone components as a coordinated, team-wide effort rather than a piecemeal one, bringing a 12–15 engineer team through it together.

Implementation

Directed the phased migration across all ~500 components, introduced pre-commit hooks and documented anti-patterns to hold quality steady mid-migration, and mentored engineers through the work — several were subsequently promoted to senior.