“I had the privilege of working under Mina's leadership for a couple of years, during which time he proved to be an outstanding senior engineering manager. Mina's unique blend of technical excellence, empathy, and genuine care for his team members set the tone for a positive and collaborative work environment. One of Mina's standout qualities is his unwavering commitment to personal and professional growth. Always eager to expand his own knowledge, he leads by example, inspiring his team to pursue continuous improvement. Mina played a pivotal role in my journey towards leadership, consistently encouraging and identifying opportunities for my growth. Additionally, Mina's dedication to maintaining a high-quality standard is unparalleled. He not only sets the bar for excellence but actively coaches the team on achieving it. His approach fosters a culture of inclusion, innovation, and collaboration that significantly contributes to the success of any project or team. Working with Mina has been a career highlight for me, and I wholeheartedly recommend him. Any team would be lucky to have someone of his caliber on board. I am confident that Mina's expertise, combined with his caring leadership style, would make a true positive impact wherever he goes. I would jump at the chance to work with Mina again without hesitation!”
About
With over twenty years of experience creating applications for the web, I am an engineering leader who combines technical expertise, design thinking, and innovation in education.
As an Engineering Manager at Shopify, I led several teams that aimed to make Shopify storefronts as fast as possible everywhere in the world. I managed the Storefront Foundations, Storefront API, and Carts teams, which were responsible for rendering, stewarding, and scaling core features of the platform. I helped build the Carts team to solve some of the most challenging enterprise-focused problems facing Shopify, requiring coordination with multiple stakeholders across the org.
Prior to Shopify, I was the CTO and Head of Instruction at Bitmaker, a technology skills accelerator, and supported internal learning systems and curriculum design, while delivering lectures to over 1200 full-time students. I also oversaw the integration of technology and instruction at General Assembly, after Bitmaker was acquired by them.
I have a passion for teaching and learning, and I enjoy working as a project generalist, solving problems across the whole application stack. My goal is to build world-class engineering teams focused on continuous growth, trust, and learning from failure.
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Austin Crim and I started a podcast! It’s called “Josh and Austin Figure It Out.” We’ll talk tech but also business, family, career, life. Come find…
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Come work with me at Gusto! Our Benefits team is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a couple of our teams. If you are interested…
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TIFFR
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TIFFR is a companion app to the Toronto International Film Festival that helps people shortlist films they're interested in seeing, then easily create a schedule of screenings that fit into their lives.
Built with Rails, Ryan and I use this project to challenge ourselves to learn new things and keep pushing our skills forward on an annual basis. We frequently collaborate with the tech team at TIFF to ensure all the data is correct and to look for ways to collaborate, year-over-year.Other creators -
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Pegleg
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See projectPegleg is a Meteor JS app that crowd-sources full-length movies from YouTube.
Pegleg was made for film-lovers. It's a community-based approach to watching great films and giving back to your fellow cinephiles. It helps you find films on YouTube and share them with the rest of us. Watch the films you love, discover films you never knew about and Pegleg films you find along the way. -
The New MUBI
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The new MUBI is a country-specific app that focuses on providing a new viewable film every day at a low price. Conceived of and executed a single-page Backbone.js app for the new MUBI VOD-focused offering, including all design, interaction, client-side code and server-side API.
The app is touch- and keyboard-enabled and features a responsive layout. Relies on Mustache templates shared between the client and server for localization and maintainability. Optimized image sizes via…The new MUBI is a country-specific app that focuses on providing a new viewable film every day at a low price. Conceived of and executed a single-page Backbone.js app for the new MUBI VOD-focused offering, including all design, interaction, client-side code and server-side API.
The app is touch- and keyboard-enabled and features a responsive layout. Relies on Mustache templates shared between the client and server for localization and maintainability. Optimized image sizes via ImageMagick to reduce file sizes by 70% on average to allow for full-screen images while maintaining reasonable page weights.Other creators -
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MUBI + Sony BRAVIA
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Integrated the MUBI service with the Sony BRAVIA platform to allow users to enjoy MUBI on their Internet-connected devices.
Work included coordinating with Sony team on timelines, creating user journies and wireframes for the registration process and writing the API endpoints to integrate with the Sony Trebuchet service.Other creators -
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MUBI + Sony PS3
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Led creation of MUBI service on Sony PlayStation 3 from concept to launch, including wireframing, interaction, design, Rails API development and documentation.
Grew user base 11x within one year of launch (+3m users).Other creators -
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English
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Elementary proficiency
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