Welcome

Hello, my name is Urban. I’m a senior software engineer and technical leader with experience building platforms, design systems, and shared infrastructure across large organizations. I’ve spent much of my career working at the intersection of product, design, and engineering, helping teams turn complex problems into systems that improve quality, consistency, and delivery at scale.

I’ve led platform modernization efforts, shaped frontend architecture, established quality and accessibility standards, and built shared foundations that help teams move faster with more confidence. A big part of my work has been creating alignment across functions by translating user and business needs into clear technical direction and helping teams navigate tradeoffs in ambiguous environments.

I’ve worked as both an IC and an engineering manager, but the work I value most is hands-on technical leadership. I’m focused on roles where I can combine technical depth, systems thinking, and cross-functional leadership while continuing to grow into full-stack systems, AI tooling, and agent-oriented development.

Specialties: Engineering Management • Software Development • Front-end Development • User Experience (UX) • Design Systems

Work Experience

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Oracle
7 yrs
- Senior Manager - JET
  Sep 2021 – Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo
  Greater Seattle Area - Remote
  - Led the modernization of Oracle’s JET frontend platform, defining and executing a multi year architecture roadmap used across OCI, Fusion Apps and GBU teams serving thousands of customers.
  - Drove a major VDOM migration of core UI primitives to address long standing performance and maintainability constraints, enabling more predictable rendering behavior and unblocking downstream teams building complex, modern applications.
  - Designed and introduced platform level abstractions for theming, layout, and component composition, reducing fragmentation and improving reuse and consistency across teams.
  - Established standardized frontend quality gates in CI, including accessibility, performance, and visual regression testing, significantly reducing regressions and increasing release confidence across product teams.
  - Led a sustained effort to eliminate accessibility debt by integrating automated testing, shared patterns, and clear ownership models, reducing the backlog by more than 85% and raising baseline accessibility compliance across the platform.
  - Acted as the technical bridge between design, product, and engineering by translating UX requirements into scalable platform capabilities, aligning stakeholders through RFCs, architecture reviews, and shared decision making.
  - Introduced clear ownership and operating models, including DRI and RACI, to reduce decision latency and ambiguity in cross org initiatives, enabling more predictable delivery.
  - Remained hands-on in critical areas of the codebase, contributing to architecture, reviews, and key implementations while mentoring senior engineers.
- Senior Manager - OCI
  Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 · 10 mo
  Greater Seattle Area - Remote
  - Owned the technical direction and evolution of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure design system and shared UI platform, supporting multiple cloud services across a large, distributed engineering organization.
  - Led cross functional collaboration with design, product, and engineering to define a cohesive system of components, tokens, and patterns that balanced brand consistency with the flexibility required by diverse cloud products.
  - Designed and delivered core frontend architecture and component foundations, reducing duplicated UI work and accelerating feature delivery across teams building OCI services.
  - Partnered with senior engineers and designers to align UX requirements with technical constraints, translating complex workflows and cloud specific use cases into scalable, reusable platform capabilities.
  - Remained hands on in critical areas of the codebase, contributing to architecture reviews, key implementations, and technical decision making for high impact UI infrastructure.
- Principle Software Engineer
  Oct 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo
  Greater Seattle Area - Hybrid
  - Served as a senior individual contributor owning core frontend platform architecture for OCI’s enterprise design system and component library, with responsibility for long term technical direction and system integrity across multiple cloud services.
  - Designed and built core UI components and patterns used across OCI services, with a focus on accessibility, performance, and consistency.
  - Drove adoption of modern frontend practices and design-system thinking across teams with varying levels of maturity.
  - Worked directly with engineers and designers to solve complex UI and workflow problems in production environments.

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