Or you can just call me by my last name, Sloan, everyone else does 😄. I'm an Atlanta based full-stack web engineer with a background in industrial design. I spent 14 years at Mailchimp, most recently as a Staff Engineer, building mailchimp.com from the browser down to the server, data, and infrastructure.
I got my start in design, studying industrial design with a focus on furniture at Georgia Tech. That's where I found the joy of designing components that come together into delightful, flexible, and above all usable systems.
I brought that into a new medium as a UI/UX designer at Digital Scientists, and along the way learned enough of the development craft to start building the things I designed.
In 2012 I joined Mailchimp on a web team of two and grew with the company from there. Over the years I helped move mailchimp.com from a static site to a dynamic, multilingual app on a headless CMS, built the team's design system, led its migration to AWS, and eventually served as technical lead, mentoring team leads across a group of about 30 engineers. In my last year I went back to hands-on work on the site's hardest problems in analytics, caching, and performance.
The thread through all of it is craft: I like learning how each piece of a system behaves so I can put the pieces together on purpose, and leaving teams faster than I found them.