My Role

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street (177 Milk Street)

Senior Software Engineer | Full-stack

2026 — Present

Lead engineer on the new Q&A Discussion Forum for the Milk Street subscriber platform (Next.js, Sanity CMS, Cloudflare D1). Designed the Sanity schema for questions and answers, built the subscriber-gated submission flow and authenticated Q&A API, the CMS-driven index, category, and answer-detail pages, and a category filtering system with nested /discussion/<category>/<slug> routing and legacy-URL redirects. Built a server-side moderation proxy that keeps the moderation secret off the client, with Data-Cache'd, tag-revalidated comment reads backed by Cloudflare D1, plus CDN caching rules and bounded read-cache TTLs. Shipped the whole forum behind a soft-launch feature flag with cookie-based preview, alongside subscription and auth fixes (Omeda logout session clearing, promotion-key persistence) and the expired-subscription bar and modal on the Ask page.

27 PRs authored · May–Jun 2026 (ongoing). Authored 28 of 31 commits in the Staging→Main release PR that shipped the Q&A Discussion Forum behind a soft-launch feature flag.

Gated public indexing of the new discussion section behind a DISCUSSION_INDEXING_ENABLED flag, with 308 redirects mapping legacy forum URLs to the new nested /discussion/<category>/<slug> structure.

Next.js
React
TypeScript
Sanity CMS
Cloudflare D1
GROQ
Vercel
Feature Flags
CDN Caching

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