Reginald Mitchell

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CTO at Pillar Cloud · Web frontends · TypeScript, web performance

Pillar Cloud
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
USC
English, French
HiringCo-founder
Messaging unavailable

Overview

I lead web frontends at Pillar Cloud in San Francisco. Reduced cloud spend on web by 46% in two quarters. Most at home with TypeScript and accessibility. Board member at a local non-profit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on accessibility
Please don't message about
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Generic networking requests
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
web performanceTypeScriptaccessibilityGraphQL
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

6 backend engineer roles open on the web team in San Francisco

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$144k-$189k + equity
Team
Web, 9 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with web performance Production experience with accessibility Ownership of something end to end
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $180k-$293k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

San Francisco, CAgraphqlaccessibilityweb performance
Open
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 6 weeks

Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for invoice financing for hospital networks

The idea
Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for invoice financing for hospital networks
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
8 years in web frontends
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
San Francisco or remote

I bring 22 years of web frontends (currently Pillar Cloud). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKweb performanceaccessibilitygraphql
Open

Experience

  1. CTO
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Pillar Cloud · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 3.
    • Built the experimentation framework 25 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Staff Frontend Engineer
    Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
    Instacart · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Cut the main bundle by 45% and got LCP under 1.3 seconds.
    • Led the move of 172 screens to a shared React component library.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
    Snowflake · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 301ms to 76ms.
    • Grew the web team from 5 to 17 engineers.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Apr 2016 - Oct 2019
    Comcast · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for web down from 15 a week to 1.
    • Grew the web team from 4 to 13 engineers.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Sep 2014 - Mar 2016
    Kaiser Permanente · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for web down from 29 a week to 4.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine
2024

Built with web performance and accessibility. 3421 people used it last year.

Open-source TypeScript toolkit
2024

A small library for web frontends that 834 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. USC
    BS, Computer Science
    2000 - 2004

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