Laud Tetteh

1. Oct 2021 – Present

   Software Engineer (MTS) @ Salesforce

   Tableau Marketing Engineering

   I work on tableau.com — a top-5,400 global site drawing roughly 13 million visits a month (Semrush estimate, August 2026), running a large enterprise Drupal installation of about 58 custom modules, 3,500 configuration files, and a hundred-spec end-to-end test suite.

   Platform & CI/CD

   I co-own the automation that moves code and data through our environments. I didn’t write this pipeline — I inherited it, and I’ve spent four years making it measurably better without breaking the team that depends on it. That’s a five-image CI container suite in a private registry, reusable composite Actions covering dependency caching, test setup and registry auth, and a gated pipeline promoting integration → dev → test → production with commit-SHA parity checks at each hop and a programmatic gate that blocks the production deploy if the previous stage’s checks didn’t pass. Four releases a week run unattended. A nightly ETL — extract, transform, load — clones production down to test and dev, prunes and sanitizes it, and provisions test users, so every engineer starts the day on realistic, safe data.

   Two pieces are mine outright. I designed the branch-scoped dependency cache keys that eliminated a cross-environment cache-poisoning failure mode — a class of intermittent build failure that is genuinely hard to see. And I own credential rotation across cloud IAM, source control and service accounts, always verifying a clean deploy on the new keys before retiring the old ones.

   Product engineering

   I built the current Tableau Pricing Calculator — the tool that lets you configure editions, licenses and add-ons and see what they cost. It’s a React front end on a Drupal REST API I designed, with multi-currency logic and cached exchange rates handled server-side, payload contracts negotiated with the frontend team, an accessible responsive UI, analytics instrumentation, and end-to-end Cypress coverage.

   I also authored the technical architecture for a bulk content-ingestion system that moves up to 100 CMS nodes in a single operation, built both its admin interface and its backend, and ran cross-team user acceptance testing that deliberately fed it out-of-order payloads to prove it wouldn’t corrupt state. And I rebuilt the authentication gating on product download pages with a kill switch operators can flip from the CMS — because the useful question about a gate isn’t whether it works, it’s how fast you can turn it off at 2am.

   Analytics engineering

   I’ve been doing marketing-analytics engineering for a decade. It started at Moz in 2016 with Adobe DTM and Segment, and at Tableau I led the site’s GA4 data-layer re-platform — ten-plus event types, custom deduplication so nothing double-counts, consent-aware cookie handling, and customer-relationship-management (CRM) interactions integration. Effectively every conversion event the marketing organization measures runs through it. I also built metadata export tooling that lets analysts join traffic data against CMS metadata; it has been reused across two migrations and re-requested more than a year after I first built it.

   Platform migration

   I’m a contributing engineer on the multi-year re-platform of the site off Drupal and onto a consolidated enterprise WordPress multisite with a decoupled Node.js frontend — content transformation, Terraform-managed environment configuration, GraphQL integration, and phased traffic cutover at the CDN, without interrupting global marketing operations.

   Before we migrated one path namespace I validated 469 redirect rules against thirty days of CDN traffic — 99.98% matched across 2.15 million redirect events. Migrations break on the 0.02% you didn’t check.

   Release, reliability & leadership

   I take the release rotation as Release Engineer of record — owning user acceptance testing and production deployment coordination, and signing off the change request. For about two years I’ve led our weekly operations review, where post-deployment triage happens and where I report site health, production errors and open issues to stakeholders. I asked for that rotation. I’m on the on-call roster, and I wrote the working agreement that governs it — what constitutes a page, what waits until morning, what a responder owes the next shift — which went from draft to org-wide adoption inside a quarter.

   When product download links started intermittently 404ing, I ran the investigation: quantified the blast radius from logs at roughly three thousand affected users, traced it to a build artifact that never landed in a gated storage bucket, and coordinated the fix with release engineering. I led a cross-team discovery comparing observability platforms for properties moving onto the new architecture, engaging three partner teams to set the organization’s forward monitoring approach. And when a new engineer joined and hit the wall our Drupal setup puts in front of everyone, I wrote the onboarding guide I wished existed and paired with them through their first pull requests — it’s what we hand new people now.

   Stack

   • Drupal
   • PHP
   • JavaScript
   • React
   • Docker
   • GitHub Actions
   • AWS S3
   • MySQL
   • Cypress
   • GA4
   • New Relic
   • Splunk

   • tableau.com
   • Pricing Calculator
2. Jul 2016 – Jan 2017

   Software Engineer @ Moz

   Migrated portions of moz.com from CakePHP to Craft CMS, partnered with the UX team turning design comps into marketing pages, and worked with business intelligence to implement page-load and event tracking through Adobe DTM and Segment — the start of the analytics-engineering thread that runs through everything since.

   Stack

   • Craft CMS
   • PHP
   • JavaScript
   • Adobe DTM
   • Segment
3. Oct 2014 – Oct 2021

   Web Developer @ Studio Ten Four

   Seven years building, inheriting and migrating WordPress and Drupal platforms for public-sector and university clients, owning the relationship end to end from requirements through delivery.

   Client platforms

   For the University of Hawai’i’s William S. Richardson School of Law I inherited and maintained a Drupal platform — course database, personnel directory, events calendar, student classifieds, job listings, and a portal gated to @hawaii.edu accounts — then led the data migration when the site was rebuilt onto WordPress. For King County’s 4Culture I was webmaster and wrote four custom WordPress plugins, all public on GitHub, and coordinated an accessibility and SEO overhaul under county compliance deadlines — screen-reader and keyboard-navigation testing alongside the design and content teams, plus custom Drupal hooks that automated meta-tag population and schema-markup injection. I built the South Seminole & North Orange County Wastewater Transmission Authority site from scratch to WCAG accessibility compliance.

   I also introduced automated build and test pipelines to client projects years before it became my specialty, and did enough schema export and transformation work that platform migration became a through-line rather than a one-off.

   Stack

   • WordPress
   • Drupal
   • PHP
   • MySQL
   • Accessibility

   • 4culture.org
   • law.hawaii.edu
   • ssnocwta.com

Projects

• Tableau Pricing Calculator

  The only thing I’ve shipped that you can click. It’s the tool on tableau.com that lets you configure product editions, licenses and add-ons and see what they cost — a React front end on a Drupal REST API I designed, with multi-currency logic and cached exchange rates resolved server-side rather than in the browser, payload contracts negotiated with the frontend team, an accessible responsive interface, analytics instrumentation, and end-to-end Cypress coverage.

  Stack

  • React
  • Drupal
  • REST API
  • Cypress
  • GA4