Available for Engineering Manager and hands-on technical leadership roles

Troy Johnson

Engineering Manager

Engineering manager who multiplies lean teams — I kept two high-traffic storefronts shipping through a major org consolidation, then built the AI tooling to extend what a small team can do.

4 teams → 1 lean squad, same scope. Player-coach. AI infrastructure builder.

Snapshot

Proof at a glance

Consolidated four frontend teams into one lean squad while holding full BBBY and buybuy BABY storefront ownership.

Owns all customer-facing frontend for Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuybaby.com — commerce, campaigns, experimentation, and CMS.

Built team AI infrastructure from scratch: skills framework, AI Hub, and developer guides that turned individual AI usage into shared workflows.

Player-coach EM: still hands-on in Page Triggers, analytics, architecture docs, and cross-team technical coordination.

Selected Work

Outcome-focused work highlights

Held full storefront scope through a 4-team consolidation

Problem: A major layoff and org restructure collapsed four frontend teams — UFO, Search, PDP, and Conversion — into one while keeping the same ownership surface across two storefronts.

Action: Stepped into consolidated leadership, re-prioritized around highest-leverage surfaces, extended capacity with an offshore contract team, and maintained delivery across commerce, campaigns, experimentation, analytics, and CMS.

Outcome: [Add metric tomorrow: deploy cadence, sprint velocity, or scope-retention proof with headcount numbers.]

Tech: React, Statsig, ContentStack, Bitbucket, Jira.

Scaled experimentation across two high-traffic storefronts

Problem: The frontend needed a reliable way to test changes on BBBY and buybuy BABY without regressions or guesswork at scale.

Action: Built out and maintained Statsig as the site-testing and experimentation layer — A/B manifests, activeSiteTestMap, experiment cleanup, and cross-surface rollout across PDP, PLP, Homepage, and Page Triggers.

Outcome: [Add metric tomorrow: a conversion lift, revenue-per-visit impact, or number of experiments shipped in a period.]

Tech: Statsig, React, ContentStack.

Built AI engineering infrastructure for the frontend team

Problem: Developers were using AI tools ad hoc with no shared workflows, skill frameworks, or documentation — leaving productivity gains on the table as the team got leaner.

Action: Created byon-skills, a reusable AI skill framework covering development, QA, and code-review workflows. Authored an AI Hub, developer guides, Atlassian/Bitbucket/Jira/Confluence integration docs, and AI landscape and terminology material for the team.

Outcome: Gave a lean team shared AI workflows and onboarding paths — turning individual experimentation into repeatable, team-level infrastructure at a moment when headcount was shrinking.

Tech: Claude, Cursor, Atlassian MCP integrations, byon-skills framework.

How I Work

Technical enough to lead the work

How I lead

Small-team prioritization, clear ownership, distributed coordination, and pragmatic delivery under constraint.

How I stay technical

Hands-on React frontend ownership, experimentation with Statsig, CMS and dev-ex tooling, AI workflow infrastructure, and cross-platform coordination.

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