Latoya Ayana Wilson
SDirector of Engineering at Northgate Technologies · Next.js, CSS
- Northgate Technologies
- Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
- 15+ years experience
- Carnegie Mellon University
- English
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Overview
15 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Northgate Technologies, where I lead the web team. Led the move of 43 screens to a shared React component library. Before that: Coinbase and Instacart. Most at home with CSS and accessibility. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.
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CSSNext.jsweb performanceaccessibility
Experience
- Director of EngineeringDec 2022 - PresentNorthgate Technologies · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Brought on-call pages for web down from 39 a week to 3.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 6.
- Staff Frontend EngineerMay 2019 - Dec 2022Coinbase · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Wrote the CSS service that now handles 58 million requests a day.
- Brought on-call pages for web down from 28 a week to 1.
- Frontend EngineerJul 2015 - Feb 2019Instacart · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Shipped 27 launches on the web team without a rollback.
- Brought on-call pages for web down from 30 a week to 3.
- Frontend EngineerNov 2011 - Jul 2015Netflix · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Cut p99 latency on the web services from 336ms to 159ms.
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Education
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS, Mathematics2006 - 2010
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