Juliette Pretot

Enterprising software engineer with a penchant for small solutions to complex problems. — I strive in teams with strong engineering cultures and meaningful cross-functional collaboration.

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Experience

Software Engineering at Google, 2020.04 - present, London

Privacy & Security Research.

Senior Web Engineer at N26, 2018.01 - 2020.03, Berlin & NYC

Isomorphic React, GraphQL, & Node.js powering the webapp of a unicorn fintech bank.

• Led web development of key features across the stack
• Reduced errors in prod by 30% via deterministic script loading
• Sped up time-to-first-meaningful-paint by 20% via improved server-side rendering
• Improved time-to-interactive by 1.4s with code splitting
• Doubled font loading speed via range-splitting & preloading
• Multiplied developer productivity by engineering key abstractions
• Mentored junior & mid-level engineers, proactively took charge of team processes

Lead Engineer at Language Academy, 2016.08 - 2017.12, Berlin

• Led development of the web platform
• Accomplished a 10% visitor-to-subscriber rate on marketing pages
• Achieved a 63% faster time-to-interactive than competiting platforms
• Reduced email automation costs by 82% using open source software
• Co-founded the company, brought it to profitability

Web Developer & Design Researcher at Clue, 2015 - 2016, Berlin

• Rebuilt the self-service support website, increasing usage by 20%
• Engineered in-app modals using web technologies, prototyped a chatbot in Python
• Created & implemented company-wide processes for user research

Education

• Humboldt University Berlin, 2013 - 2016

Recognition

• Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies, 2019 - 2020

Personal Projects

• agnostic-axe: Developer tool that reports accessibility issues to the browser console. (Now maintained by Deque Systems)
• co-commit: A Node.js tool to co-author commits on GitHub when pair programming. Featured on the front page of Product Hunt.