v3.2.0
Self-serve onboarding and a faster checkout
Self-serve onboarding, live for every new signup at Northwind. Activation rose 18%, and checkout load dropped from 4.1s to 1.3s.
+18% activation
Currently available for work
Career changelog. Everything connected.
Every release made me clearer.
Calary is a product engineer with five years of shipping, written up as release notes. Zero breaking changes, a few merge conflicts, one very patient design system.
By the numbers
Shipped, not just staffed.
- years of experience
- 6+years of experience
- projects shipped
- 42projects shipped
- people helped
- 12,000+people helped
// git blame: 2020 to 2026, product engineering
// git log --oneline | wc -l
// co-authored-by: everyone who asked a question
Selected work
Selected work
v3.1.0
Clinical scheduling without a flag day
A scheduling API that replaced 3 legacy endpoints at Lumen Health. Retry-safe writes brought failed bookings down 31%.
31% fewer failed bookings
The changelog
Release notes, newest first.
Every role is a release. Every release has a version, a changelog and one number that mattered.
My approach
Start with the objective.
- 01
Research
Interviews and analytics first. Nothing gets scoped until the problem is written down.
- 02
Strategy
Pick the one metric that matters, then cut scope until the work fits a single release.
- 03
Communication
Short written updates each week, so no decision reaches anyone for the first time in a meeting.
- 04
Design
Prototypes in code early, so the design survives contact with a real browser.
- 05
Development
Small merges behind flags, with a test suite that finishes in under two minutes.
- 06
Measurement
Ship, watch the number, and write down whether it actually moved.
Skills
Dependencies.
Installed, tested, occasionally upgraded.
TypeScript
v5.4React
v19.0Next.js
v16.0Node.js
v22.11PostgreSQL
v16.4Design systems
v3.2Figma
v2024.9Accessibility
v2.6Testing (Vitest/Playwright)
v1.47GraphQL
v16.9AWS
v3.0Mentoring
v1.0
// peerDependencies: coffee, curiosity
Reviews
Approved by.
Approved
“Calary cut our onboarding flow from 9 steps to 3 and drop-off fell 41% in one sprint. The migration plan came with a rollback plan, which is more than I can say for most of my roadmap.”
Approved
“Inherited a checkout test suite passing 37% of the time. Two weeks later it was at 99.2%, and nobody on the team has said "just rerun it" since. I read the diff twice and found nothing to block on.”
Approved
“Rebuilt our billing pipeline across 12 deploys with zero incidents. The docs were written before the code, which I did not know was allowed. Approving with zero nits, a first for this repo.”
Contact. Let’s ship something.
Ready to merge?
Open to full-time and contract roles. Reviews are fast, reverts are rare.
status: open_to_work