Rylee Corradini

Frontend Engineering Leadership

facerix.com · LinkedIn · rylee@facerix.com

Background

An accomplished frontend engineer with over 20 years of experience, specializing in web application development, design systems, and user-centered design. Proven track record of leading web development teams delivering multi-million-dollar projects for enterprise organizations. Skilled at driving innovation and delivering accessible, high-quality user experiences.

Selected Experience

Staff Engineer — Web Platform

2023 — Present
SurveyMonkey, San Mateo CA
  • Modernizing the GraphQL infrastructure, moving from a monolithic graph to a modular, federated architecture
  • Working with cross-functional partners across product and infrastructure teams to improve performance, scalability, and reliability of the frontend data layer.
  • Building tools to assist teams in migrating to GraphQL Federation

Staff Frontend Engineer — Billing

2020 — 2023
SurveyMonkey, San Mateo CA
  • Led multi-quarter initiative (working with cross-functional partners across product, design, customer support, and engineering orgs) to plan & execute migration from in-house billing platform to Stripe
  • Spearheaded migration of legacy Python web apps to modern platform (React, TypeScript, GraphQL)
  • Co-founded & led TypeScript guild for 3 years, driving company-wide adoption of TypeScript

Frontend Engineer / Frontend Group Lead

2017 — 2020
Quora, Mountain View CA
  • Worked closely with design partners to build Quora's design system / component library
  • Led effort to migrate design system from Python+SASS to React+JSS
  • Led the component library team (3–4 engineers), overseeing maintenance and feature development
  • Built out full frontend rendering & text-editing support for RTL (Arabic/Hebrew) languages
  • Introduced drop-in office hours model for frontend support; mentored junior engineers & designers via tech talks and written best practices

Staff UI Engineer

2016 — 2017
Zenefits, San Francisco CA
  • Served as embedded frontend specialist on a backend-leaning engineering team, ensuring frontend quality and consistency
  • Held drop-in frontend office hours to support engineers with frontend challenges

Founding Frontend Engineer

2013 — 2016
Heighten, Redwood City CA
  • Designed & built first web version of the company's core product
  • Worked closely with UX & product designers to craft robust, data-driven interface code
  • Recruited, evaluated & mentored junior engineers
  • Contributed to backend, Android, and iOS codebases when needed (MongoDB / Java / Objective-C)

Senior Computer Scientist

2008 — 2013
White Oak Technologies, Inc., Silver Spring MD
  • Led consolidation of multiple web apps into a single, unified portal with consistent visual design
  • Worked with cross-functional partners to define system requirements
  • Built and led a team of 4 engineers
  • Drove adoption of agile processes, managing backlog and release cycles
  • Spoke at DojoConf 2011 on optimization of large-scale data grid visualization

Software Engineer

2007 — 2008
MasterControl, Inc., Salt Lake City UT
  • Developed ColdFusion/JavaScript/AJAX features for an enterprise document control web application
  • Championed adoption of AJAX patterns across the codebase, modernizing the user experience