My Role

The Wall Street Journal — SEO Program

Senior Software Engineer | Full-stack

2024 — 2025

Senior Software Engineer | Full-stack on WSJ's Next.js platform across the SEO program. Embedded full-time inside the WSJ team — JIRA, daily standups, retrospectives, sprint planning, and global team meetings — under WSJ's full-time contractor process. Launched two complete page systems: the Latest Headlines page (full layout, GraphQL queries, schema markup) and the Live Coverage section front (real-time event grid, page layout, pagination). Contributed across multiple shared component libraries used across WSJ brand properties — adding SSR fetches, transforms, and safety checks. Also enhanced the in-house prerender service (Puppeteer) with load-more click simulation, pixel-step scrolling, and network-idle waits to ensure complete content capture for crawlers.

Achievements

4.13M digital subscribers

218+ commits across the main WSJ Next.js application, multiple shared component libraries used across WSJ brand properties, and the in-house prerender service · Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Built and led the platform-wide mod-code removal system for bot/SEO optimization, applied to the shared components used across WSJ brand properties — homepage modules, navigation surfaces, video blocks, popular-content rails, and live-coverage timelines. Shipped SEO-friendly pagination for topic pages, an Open Graph site-name overhaul, an articles metatag refresh, Latest Headlines query separation for Live Coverage positioning, and SSR fetches for video index pages.

Integrated UTag tracking script and analytics scaffolding on the Latest Headlines page launch.

React
Next.js
GraphQL
Node.js
Puppeteer
JavaScript
JSON-LD Schema

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