Plum Ertz
Senior Director, Engineering at Ro
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPlum Ertz is a senior engineering leader with 12 years of experience building accessible, performant web interfaces and leading cross-functional teams, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Ro. She specializes in UI/UX, progressive enhancement, and digital accessibility, having led large-scale replatforming and remediation initiatives at organizations like BuzzFeed and Ro. Plum is a hands-on technical translator who balances product needs and business constraints while coaching engineers and improving org-wide processes. She brings deep front-end expertise (React, Next.js, HTML/CSS/JS) alongside experience shaping developer experience, incident response, and debt-reduction programs. Off-hours she’s an obsessive baker and ServSafe-certified food manager who famously boosts team morale with homemade desserts—a small but consistent driver of cross-team culture.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Communications High SchoolBachelor's Media and Communications Economics, Bachelor's Media and Communications Economics at Muhlenberg College
Github Skills (5)
sitemap8
seo5
css5
keystonejs2
static-site-generator2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
s-plum/plumcube
Jul 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 1 year 2 months
s-plum/boilerplum
Aug 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes in 4 months
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