I joined an established team of 4 generalist developers that supported the Solutions Engineering org with custom demo requests during sales cycles, balancing general but customizable web apps and bespoke PoCs for bigger opportunities.

[https://www.boxdemoeng.com](https://www.boxdemoeng.com/home)

**Tech Stack:**

\~ Primarly Node + Express + Handlebars for app development, with a little bit of RoR and React.

\~ Auth0 for user management, with serverless back-end using [Webtask](https://web.archive.org/web/20180722064003/https://webtask.io/) (RIP).

\~ Heroku for deployment.

**Highlights**

\~ Led the redesign of set of Industry demo web apps that embedded Box UI elements to showcase platform use cases. Originally based on the [Express starter app](https://github.com/box/samples/tree/master/box-node-express-skeleton-app), we updated them to use [Handlebars](https://handlebarsjs.com/) and [Bootstrap 4](https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.6/getting-started/introduction/).

\~ Worked alongside one teammate and SE director to help close one of the biggest platform deals in the EMEA region with a bespoke PoC that combined Box, Microsoft, and Salesforce services tied together using a Webtask serverless back-end.

\~ Introduced Kanban via Trello for project management and [Adobe XD](https://www.adobe.com/products/xd.html) for desiging mock-ups and interactive demo prototypes.

DE at Box

I worked alongside a newly-formed team of 3 developers split across front-end/back-end work to create, distribute, and enable the Sales & Customer Success org with demo Enterprise Grid workspaces. We also built custom [Slack Apps](https://slack.com/apps) for these demo workspaces to showcase key integration capabilities without the need for paid accounts, and tools to make it easier to send multiple messages into a Slack workspace from a single UI.

**Tech Stack**

\~ Express and [Polka](https://github.com/lukeed/polka) with the [Node SDK](https://slack.dev/node-slack-sdk/) for Slack apps, with some apps migrating to [Bolt](https://api.slack.com/tools/bolt) as the framework was first released.

\~ React + Redux for the team’s web-based app directory and tool for bulk-message sending to demo workspaces.

\~ Back-end services, APIs, and CLIs were built using Java [Spring](https://spring.io/projects/spring-framework) and [RabbitMQ](https://www.rabbitmq.com/) (I didn’t touch this stuff).

\~ AWS for deployment.

**Highlights**

\~ Leading new hire training and enablement as we scaled to over 500 demo workspaces distributed.

\~ Making updates to the team’s Hacklang script to improve concurrency on internal API calls and writing [Puppeteer](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer) scripts to automate org population.

DE at Slack

I joined a new team of 2 other generalists developers to build out a shared demo platform for Twilio products used by global sales org. At the center of this demo environment is a set of [Twilio Flex](https://www.twilio.com/flex) instances connected to a HubSpot CRM, along with [Functions](https://www.twilio.com/docs/runtime) and [Studio Flows](https://www.twilio.com/docs/studio) to tie into third-party APIs. We built custom web apps that connected to these instances to demonstrate various use-cases.

**Tech Stack**

\~ [Create-react-app](https://create-react-app.dev/) based SPAs using [Material](https://mui.com/) UI with Node-based Twilio Functions back-ends for demo web apps and an internal demo admin app

\~ React + Redux with [Paste](https://paste.twilio.design/) for custom [Flex Plugins](https://github.com/twilio/flex-plugin-builder)

\~ Okta for user management

\~ AWS for deployment

**Highlights**

\~ Designed, built, and did enablement for [IVR](https://www.twilio.com/solutions/ivr) use-case demos, one usng Zendesk APIs and another using Google Dialogflow and [CCAI](https://cloud.google.com/solutions/contact-center/).

\~ Launched an updated project management and road-mapping process for our team using [Airtable](https://airtable.com).

\~ Added a TOTP authentication flow using the [Verify API](https://www.twilio.com/docs/verify/api) to a custom Flex Plugin as part of the platforms’ financial services and retail demo use-cases.

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