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Lenny Sirivong

Lenny Sirivong is a full stack web developer and game maker.

Work

Vox Media, Staff Software Engineer
June 2019 — Present, Washington, DC, USA (Remote)

Collaborated cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, and Analytics leadership balancing trade-offs, refining scope, and navigating risk. Gained alignment and reduced churn, through writing and contributing to 100s of product plans, dev plans, and design documents, providing clarity and confidence to stakeholders and contributors.

Shaped architectural decisions throughout content migrations from Chorus to Duet, a custom Next.js platform backed by Wordpress–ensuring critical legacy functionality was preserved, and making strategic trade-offs to support long-term scalability while meeting aggressive timelines.

Architected and led development of new features and services like Encore: a CMS-agnostic backlinking tool. Establishing a model for tooling that can serve an expansive list of properties.

Mentored and provided technical leadership to engineers as Editorial Tools Tech Lead, building Chorus: a multiuser, multitenant modern publishing platform in alignment with business goals.

Promoted technical excellence through rigorous code review, pairing, and establishing testing workflows. Spearheaded improvements in development and CI environments, improving local start times from >80 seconds to <10, and build times from >10 minutes to <3.

Demonstrated flexibility by jumping between projects and tech stacks—often as the only engineer—to keep systems running smoothly and deliver value even when it meant learning new tools. In the past year alone I have contributed to Next.js, Rails, Vue, Drupal, Django, and iOS projects.

Mentored engineers and fostered psychological safety–reducing knowledge silos and technical debt by hosting team technical discussions and deepdives. Hosting nearly 40 of these discussions enabled engineers to be more efficient and coordinated around addressing tech debt.

Championed documentation and knowledge sharing, creating self-serve resources that unblocked contributors faster, reduced interruptions for maintainers, and sped up onboarding.

Pattern Brands (FKA Gin Lane Media), Senior Technologist - Full Stack Developer
February 2013 — June 2019, New York, NY, USA (Remote)

Collaborated with designers and business stakeholders to provide full stack development of performant, mobile friendly, API driven experiences for over a dozen award winning e-commerce, marketing, and micro sites for industry leading and startup brands.

  • Configured and optimized CI deployment of Rails, Node, and Static applications to AWS infrastructure.
  • Lead research and prototype implementation of modern REST API alternatives like Falcor and GraphQL
  • Lead adoption of Storybook as a component library and visual testing tool.
  • Maintained high code maintainability and quality through unit tests, integration tests, code reviews, and linting.
  • Optimized site performance with techniques such as bundle size reduction, asset loading orchestration, animation jank debugging
  • Lead adoption of BEM and css-in-js CSS organization methodologies.

Projects

  • Go Get Em Tiger — React / Rails / Solidus
  • Relode — React / Gatsby / Contentful
  • Sunday Goods — React / Rails / Solidus
  • GE : Digital Volcano — Javascript / GSAP / THREE.js
  • Gin Lane — React / Gatsby / Contentful
  • Best Made Co. — Ecomm - Rails / Spree
  • Saturdays Magazine — HTML / CSS / jQuery / CoffeeScript
  • 365 by Whole Foods Market — React / Node / Falcor
  • La Ligne — Ecomm - React / Rails / Solidus
  • AYR — HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Spreecommerce
  • Adidas #mygirls microsite — HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Silex, Tridion

Hardin Design & Development, Senior Web Developer
March 2012 — February 2013, Madison, WI, USA

  • Bluetree Network — HTML, CSS, Javascript, asp.NET, Transact-SQL
  • RecPlex HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Zend, MySQL
  • Foth — HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Wordpress

Sony Creative Software, User Experience Software Engineer
January 2009 — July 2011, Madison, WI, USA

Senior Software Engineer (July 2011 — November 2011)

  • C# and C++ development and UX design for 7 major releases of media creation software.
  • Designed and organized the company’s first ever usability tests.

University of Wisconsin Athletic Department, Web Developer
September 2008 — January 2009, Madison, WI, USA

  • asp.NET web application development.
  • Visual Basic, asp.NET, Transact-SQL

Intuit Inc., Software Engineer Intern
May 2008 — August 2008, San Diego, CA, USA

  • Engineering Intern for TurboTax on Windows,
  • Agile software development and User Experience testing.
  • C#, .NET, WinForms

Quad/Graphics Inc., Software Development Trainee
May 2007 — May 2008, Sussex, WI, USA

  • asp.NET web application development.
  • Visual Basic, C#, asp.NET, Transact-SQL

Education

B.S. in Computer Sciences 2008 University of Wisconsin–Madison