Latoya Ayana Wilson

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Director 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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Skills
CSSNext.jsweb performanceaccessibility

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2022 - Present
    Northgate 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.
  2. Staff Frontend Engineer
    May 2019 - Dec 2022
    Coinbase · 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.
  3. Frontend Engineer
    Jul 2015 - Feb 2019
    Instacart · 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.
  4. Frontend Engineer
    Nov 2011 - Jul 2015
    Netflix · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 336ms to 159ms.

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Education

  1. Carnegie Mellon University
    BS, Mathematics
    2006 - 2010

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