About

Since 2011, I have been a professional software engineer, working across a range of e-commerce and fintech companies.

I have built teams from the ground up, starting as the first hire and growing to a dozen engineers.

I’ve spearheaded software development lifecycle programs and launched applications from scratch.

I enjoy breaking complex and high-level business problems into small and simple code changes.

My documentation and designs consistently amplify the productivity of engineers around me.

Some of the things I’ve worked on professionally include:

• Payment Processing, Chargeback Disputes, and Representments
• Manual Review Queues, Tooling for Queue Administration
• Authentication, Authorization, and Identity and Access Management Systems
• Real-time Rules Engines, Control Planes, and Internal Tools for Policy Administration
• Experimentation Frameworks, A/B Testing, Feature Flags, and Shadow Evaluation Policies
• Distributed Systems, Service Oriented Architecture, Domain Driven Design
• Graph Databases, Digital Identities, and Anomaly Detection
• Business Intelligence, ETL, Enterprise Data Warehouse

In business, some of my key achievements include:

• Planning incremental delivery for a platform engineering team with a 24-month roadmap
• Architecting a real-time rules platform for risk controls in payment processing
• Risk and Identity domain expertise, with conference speaking experience
• Cross-functional collaboration with product, security, marketing, accounting, and operations teams for delivering value at scale

Technically, some of my achievements include:

• Launching and upgrading services
• Maintaining legacy services
• Deprecating and removing services
• Migrating services between data centers
• Evaluating and integrating third-party vendors
• Deprecating and removing third-party vendor integrations

As a technology generalist, I deliver value using a wide array of modern tools.

That said, some of my favorite technologies are listed here

I also offer my formal resume in various formats.

• webpage
• pdf
• json

Favorite professional books

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford – THE book I would recommend for project leads, product managers, engineering leaders, and business executives
• A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition by John Ousterhout – A guide to managing complexity in code. I find its a more pragmatic approach than Clean Code or similar titles
• Lean Knowledge Management: How NASA Implemented a Practical KM Program by Roger Forsgren – Knowledge Management and documentation can be a force multiplier or a productivity killer, here’s how to do it right

Feel free to reach out with questions or opportunities.