The CEO-sponsored push to make onboarding self-service

The time from hire date to first commit was 40+ days, and almost none of it was learning the codebase: it was laptop imaging, software access, and permission requests that each had their own approver. The figure came up in an operating review, and the CEO made bringing it down a sponsored initiative. ATLAS is how the platform team delivers on it, under Anthony Brignano's lead.

The design rule is that onboarding stays in the browser until it has to leave. I built walkthroughs that run real setup on the engineer's own machine through the desktop agent, and the one that opens VS Code, installs the platform extension, and tours the editor.

Some people learn faster by watching. I built Atlas Studio, an AI-enabled tool that turns written guide content into narrated walkthrough videos, so when a guide changes its video can be regenerated instead of re-recorded.

I built Harness project provisioning and onboarding workflows, written to be idempotent so that running one again leaves a team's setup intact.

I led technical enablement and onboarding for associates, interns, and engineers going through the new path, and fed what tripped them up back into the walkthroughs.

The "hours" figure is what the platform path delivers on a single machine, from unboxed to building. The initiative is judged on hire date to first commit, a cumulative enterprise average that moves slowly and hasn't caught up yet; the first-day goal is a target, not a result.