Korbin Ancell
Christiansburg,Virginia
Summary
Tech Lead with expertise in managing and enhancing large-scale products, including a strong focus on accessibility. Demonstrated success in cultivating a culture of collaboration and growth, both personally and organizationally. Driven by a passion to harness technology for impactful innovations that improve lives.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech Lead
Blitz App
06.2023 - Current
- Filtering resumes, tech & behavioral interviews, hiring, on-boarding, and mentoring of new hires.
- Coordinated several new projects with a focus on translating business goals into technical requirements with bite sized tasks.
- Maintained weekly 1:1s with my team, cultivating a culture of open communication and directly working together to solve problems.
- Filling in gaps from the team by taking on individual contributor work when necessary
- Managed a balance of new features and maintenance to keep an app with 1M+ DAU relevant and functional.
Co-Founder & CTO
Checkayou
02.2022 - 05.2024
- Architected a modern tech stack to optimize for sustainability and future scaling.
- Built out admin CRM functionality using KYC providers and Google Admin & analytic consoles.
- Built out customer facing architecture leveraging Cloudflare, AWS, and Algolia services.
- Evaluation and exploration of several other online service providers based on cost vs benefit.
- Designed and implemented the user interface with a focus on speed and usability.
Senior Software Engineer
Blitz App
03.2022 - 06.2023
- Rewrote and maintained the front-end for the app's paid subscription service reducing bounce and errors by 40+%.
- Created an easy and straightforward payment flow leveraging Stripe & Braintree.
- Created multiple internal and reusable tools and services to reduce code and time needed to spin up new projects.
- Championed good accessibility practices through training, code review, checklists, and testing.
- Dev lead on new product to create in game tournaments currently used by 200k+ users. Managed product direction and design with a focus on bringing the most joy to users.
Software Engineer
Logos
09.2018 - 02.2022
- Served as subject matter expert on accessibility and ui/ux in several codebases.
- Worked with third-party product owners to integrate and sync with our current accounting features.
- Created and maintained dev tools and scripts to streamline versioning, testing, and shipping for 12+ products across 6 teams.
- Maintained a large payment facilitator back end and donation form front end to enable non profits to collect donations and pledges.
- Built out a robust set of accounting tools for non-profit admins.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Abilene Christian University
Abilene, TX05.2018
Skills
- Dev Mentoring & Career Growth
- DevOps
- Serverless Infrastructure
- Accessible UI/UX
- TS/JS & React
- SQL & No SQL databases
- C#
Timeline
Tech Lead
Blitz App
06.2023 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Blitz App
03.2022 - 06.2023
Co-Founder & CTO
Checkayou
02.2022 - 05.2024
Software Engineer
Logos
09.2018 - 02.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Abilene Christian University
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