Brooke Watson

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Director of Engineering, Deloitte - accessibility · CSS · GraphQL

Deloitte
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
11+ years experience
USC
English
Advising
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Overview

I lead web frontends at Deloitte in San Francisco. Shipped 23 launches on the web team without a rollback. I write short fiction no one reads.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on web frontends
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Replies on weekends

Skills
CSSaccessibilityTypeScriptGraphQLrate limiting
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closes in 3 months

Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: web frontends and rate limiting

Topics
web frontends, GraphQL, CSS
Format
Office hours
Terms
Equity
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
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Engineers moving into leadership

21 years of web frontends. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKrate limitingcsstypescript
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Feb 2026 - Present
    Deloitte · 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped 23 launches on the web team without a rollback.
    • Cut the main bundle by 43% and got LCP under 1.3 seconds.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2023 - Feb 2026
    Boeing · 3 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for web down from 15 a week to 4.
    • Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Apr 2019 - Feb 2023
    Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
  4. Senior Frontend Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
    Bank of America · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 3.
  5. Senior Frontend Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
    Nike · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 311ms to 169ms.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from web
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling web frontends.

Side project: a recipe search engine
2022

Built with CSS and rate limiting. 1173 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. USC
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2000 - 2004

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