coda

pricing

implemented various middleware, permissioning, in-doc pricing alerts, resolving website header across the product, checkout flow, pricing page calculator, and folder experiences for the pricing launch
refactored all emails to be less copy+paste and more sane to work with
added a common helper for handling overflow detection and adding tooltip on hover

referralProgram

drove this feature from design with oleg through implementation to launch

activityLog

drove this feature end-to-end, from developing the product proposal and presenting at catalyst to creating the eng design to implementing the feature and rolling out to many satisfied customers
also wrote and published a blog post for the company related to this
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emailPassword

worked on implementing major parts of the email password flow including the different components and flows as well as backend services to gate suspicious login, recaptcha, and handling merging accounts
handled canonicalization end to end with proposal + design, implementation, and rollout

personalizedSignup

launched new NUX experiment for users, resulting in a tangible increase in new user retention and signups
while i was here, made significant improvements to the tech debt in User Avatar View

freeEmployeePlan

drove the adoption of free paid plans for employees by coordinating key stakeholders and aligning on a plan to move forward as well as setting up the process to get these set up for new employees

downgrading

drove this feature end-to-end from adding figma mocks to coordinating product and sales folks to align on the proper questions to ask during the flow and what the experience should feel like to implementing in the code

betterDocList

designed eng + implemented + added metrics dashboard for pinned docs
designed + prototyped experiments around trending docs
worked directly with steve won to come up with doc list north star, did design riffs and presented together
- ultimately was deprioritized in planning
lessons i picked pinned docs because the engineering challenge was harder, knowing that it was a feature i was less excited about. this was a mistake because avatars was way simpler but also way more impactful and i shouldn’t pick something just for learning’s sake, especially when it’s something i’m actively doubting the effectiveness of

customPhotos

designed + implemented + shipped long-requested feature to upload custom avatars for users
set up foundation in a general way to enable custom icons for workspaces

adminDashboard

coda seeded idea of doing admin dashboard as a doc instead of normal features and it ended up being a huge movement around entering enterprise and penetrating it admins ^ctxXCyhTv
developed the product proposal for this in-tandem with jeremy and presented at catalyst.
drove the engineering design for this that touched many pieces of infrastructure including adding a new database, new workflows, and reconciling how this new service lives with our existing data warehouse systems and the ongoing publishing analytics work
Implemented engineering foundation in a way that allowed others to re-use the work
- including publishing analytics and custom templates and our new activity log stuff
also drove enabling a new piece of packs infrastructure that allows pack actions to update the row that it affects automatically
- try to drive this forward to something generally usable? ✅ 2022-11-02
wrote SQL for mode reports that would collect this information from our data warehouses to backfill the data for existing orgs
launched this feature to over 15 orgs, where many said this is a crucial reason they upgraded as well as was able to enable this for team workspaces considering the upgrade
created a smooth process to enable sales folks to rollout the templates themselves including loom videos and a coda doc

custom templates

worked heavily with steve won and jeremy to work out the product decisions for this feature and getting a north star picture of what we want templates to be in a way that works with our existing usages of the term
designed end-to-end the databases, APIs, and components we’d need for the feature as well as explored and planned out future work needed for drag + drop
launched custom templates beta to 300+ users, including some of our largest organizations like square, Pinterest, casper, and more to a lot of fanfare.
Coordinated multi-page copy paste work with DocX engineers who are knowledgable and crafted a detailed design doc to capture all the change needed to be made, keeping them informed at each step of the implementation process
Coordinated a complicated rollout strategy that involved experiments as well as different beta stages which added a lot of technical overhead to the code
Coordinated and aligned key stakeholders on a solution to schema version match constraint for our existing templates and implemented solution with 0 downtime
Designed and planned detailed events and logging and coordinated with data team and sohan in order to make sure we would get detailed usage statistics from people using it in the beta as well as after
coda dealing with tech debt in multiple areas (examples code and copy paste code) and improving things as i go through them instead of just working in the existing context custom templates ^-7kMb58ty
Implemented various parts of the engineering design including most of the full-doc components with the new new doc dialog design, the templates top bar, and the backend infrastructure
designed and implemented the templatize doc email to promo makers to turn their documents that are being copied into templates

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