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-oriented design. A strong history of leading web development teams in the delivery of multi-million-dollar projects for enterprise organizations. Skilled at driving innovation and delivering world-class, accessible user experiences.

Selected Experience

Staff Frontend Engineer

2020 — Present
SurveyMonkey, San Mateo CA
  • Led multi-quarter epic (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
  • As of October 2023, joined Web Platform team to lead next evolution of the company's GraphQL platform

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
  • Oversaw maintenance & feature development of component library team, directing 3-4 engineers
  • Built out full frontend rendering & text-editing support for RTL (Arabic/Hebrew) languages
  • Mentored junior engineers & designers via office hours, tech talks, and best practices

Staff UI Engineer

2016 — 2017
Zenefits, San Francisco CA
  • Worked with cross-functional partners to ensure consistent user experience
  • Mentored junior & full-stack engineers in front-end best practices
  • Prototyped front-end architecture of platform "dev center" effort

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 / ObjectiveC)

Senior Computer Scientist

2008 — 2013
White Oak Technologies, Inc., Silver Spring MD
  • Led effort to re-home multiple web apps into a single, unified portal with consistent visual design
  • Worked with cross-functional partners to define system requirements
  • Built out & 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
  • ColdFusion/JavaScript/AJAX web development for enterprise document control web app
  • Drove adoption of AJAX-powered feature enhancements to the codebase