Alan Mooiman

Web Engineering Manager

SquareFoot is a commercial real estate brokerage, focused on client acquisition via our web platform. I lead the team of 4 engineers resposible for the front-end of this platform, which is used for showing listings to potential clients, onboarding them into our sales flow, and then facilitating the broker/client search experience. It's a pre-rendered React application which connects to a GraphQL API. I work closely with the product manager, backend/infrastructure manager, head of engineering, marketing team, and the design team to deliver new features to the platform while reducing technical debt that accumulated as the platform was first being shaped.

Some significant accomplishments include:

• I led work on the quarterly key result of improving mobile Lighthouse scores for key SEO pages from in the 20's to 70's
• I proposed and drove a major upgrade on the web application's foundation and development workflow, which had core dependencies many years out of date (e.g. Node.js v6 when v13 was the most recent). From there, I championed migrating the main SEO pages to Next.JS, resulting in Lighthouse scores in the 90's, and improved rankings on Google Search.
• I spearheaded a successful transition of the team project management workflow. This was driven by a need for better asynchronous communications on a distributed team and to reduce time spent in planning meetings, while ensuring predictable project delivery.

Engineering Manager

I led a team of 6 web and devops engineers across North America and Germany, building projects to support Mozilla's mission of improving internet health. I worked closely with the design manager, product manager, and digital director to improve the Foundation's main site at foundation.mozilla.org. The design and engineering teams also functioned as a service organization internally. I partnered with the leaders of other teams to identify the best way for us to address their needs while pushing forward on our team's internal road map. This happened by asking not just "what are you trying to do?" but "what problem are you trying to solve?", a subtle but important distinction. I also worked with my team to identify workflow challenges, improve their skills, and foster best software development practices while keeping us moving forward. Finally, as both the engineering lead and most senior technical manager in the org, I ensured organizational technology decisions were made prudently with an eye on long term impact and cost.

Front End Developer

Front End Prototype Developer