Drew T say hello

hello, I'm Drew

Great teams ship products millions love.

I lead 35 engineers across five teams at Synchrony, building the payments, digital collections, disputes, and statements products used by millions of customers.

I specialize in hyper-growth transformation: scaling the front-end organization from 40 to over 135 engineers while cutting staffing turnover by 70% — and keeping the teams that generate millions in annual revenue shipping steadily.

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Agentic EngineeringHyper-Growth TransformationStaffing & Retention ReactTypeScriptNodeES2016/17Gulp MySQLPHPGitComponentsDesign Systems

by the numbers

Proof, plain and simple.

Org growth, revenue impact, and delivery — the receipts from the last several years.

135+

Engineers in the front-end org — scaled from 40 in under two years

35

Engineers led across five development teams

10

Distinct products shipped — payments, collections, disputes, statements

70%

Reduction in staffing turnover as the engineering organization grew

96%

Increase in WCAG 2.0 accessibility conformance at USAA

77%

Decrease in time to release at USAA — once a month to 3× a week

the journey

Seventeen years of building.

From founding engineer to engineering manager — always close to the team and the code.

2023 — present

Synchrony · Stamford, CT (Remote)
TypeScript, React, CSS, Node

Engineering Manager

  • Oversee engineering teams generating millions in annual revenue.
  • Led the hyper-growth of the front-end organization from 40 to over 135 engineers.
  • Lead five development teams — 35 engineers — responsible for 10 distinct products spanning payments, digital collections, disputes, transaction summary, component library, and statements.
↑ 3× engineering team in < 2 years ↑ Tens of millions from digital collections ↓ 70% staffing turnover

2022 — 2023

Synchrony · Stamford, CT (Remote)

Principal Engineer

  • Increased delivery by 30% across two product teams.
  • Raised staffing retention by 70% by leading the transformation of technical and interpersonal assessments.
  • Mentored and developed five junior engineers into full-time roles.
  • Budgeted, planned, and organized three large-scale in-person engineering summits across the US.
↑ 30% delivery across 2 teams ↑ 70% staffing retention → 5 juniors → full-time engineers

2017 — 2021

USAA · Dallas, TX
JS, React, CSS, Node

Senior Software Engineer

  • Grew the team from 6 to 12 engineers.
  • Mentored engineers with no front-end or JavaScript experience through pairing, written curriculum, and workshops.
  • Served as team liaison to more than 10 engineering, design, and API teams.
  • Led development of the composition-based, componentized transaction table — thousands of lines across 12+ unique components.
  • Led 50+ technical interviews and wrote documentation for consistent candidate assessment.
↑ 96% WCAG 2.0 conformance ↑ 60% customer satisfaction ↑ 19% customer engagement ↓ 77% time to release

2009 — 2022

One Massive Point · Los Angeles, CA — Dallas, TX

Founding Engineer / Consultant

  • Advised growth-stage startups on engineering leadership.
  • Provided mentorship and training to founding engineers; equipped non-technical leadership through the SDLC for more productive engineering outcomes.
  • Led full-stack design, architecture, and development of a comprehensive e-commerce platform.
  • Established cloud-agnostic infrastructure as code and service-oriented microservices consumed by robust, flexible front-end component libraries.
→ 13 yrs advising growth-stage teams → Full-stack e-commerce platforms

the toolkit

What I bring to the table.

From org design and staffing to React components and Photoshop layers.

Engineering leadership

Org & growth

Agentic engineering Hyper-growth transformation Staffing & retention Mentorship programs Engineering summits

Technical proficiencies

Languages & tools

React TypeScript Node ES2016/17 Gulp MySQL PHP Git

App proficiencies

Design & media

Illustrator Photoshop Premiere After Effects Sketch Kaleidoscope Sublime Bash

giving back

Beyond the day job.

Open-source libraries, and mentoring the next wave of developers.

Open sourceShared from the workbench

Utility code refactored into shareable libraries — long-running contributions via jQuery, WordPress, npm, and PHP Composer.

mightty jquery random class zippper toddsby/monolog

MentoringCodementor

Teach, equip, and mentor fellow developers through programming best practices, library nuances, and technical challenges.

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the diploma

Education.

California State University, Fullerton Focus in English Literature 2002 — 2003

say hello

Let's build the team.

Engineering leadership, hyper-growth transformation, front-end architecture — or mentoring. Open to conversation.

Email drew@drewww.xyz
Phone two-one-four · six-zero-eight · nine-six-seven-two
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