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Boston, Ma, Us

San Jose, California, Us

As a leader at Signifyd, a premier eCommerce fraud protection & prevention company, I oversee the Cloud, Data, and ML Platform Engineering groups, driving significant advancements in efficiency, security, and team development. My teams successfully optimized compute and storage, reducing costs by nearly 2 basis points—saving millions of dollars—through modernization of compute, scheduling, and smart optimization of Apache Spark jobs. We achieved a 30% reduction in storage by implementing retention policies aligned with Data Privacy & Compliance standards. My teams are also responsible for the company-wide roll-out of Databricks for data quality, integrity, and reliability and the conversion of our ML feature system to Tecton to support real-time streaming features.Additionally, we established a security-first app-sec program using CyCode for proactive code scanning and rolled out full decision simulation services, empowering our Data Science team to enhance offline modeling capabilities. To support the growth and evolution of our engineering talent, I developed comprehensive career ladders for individual contributors and managers. Embracing innovation, I also implemented generative AI-assisted tools like CoPilot, significantly boosting developer productivity. My leadership at Signifyd has been centered around embracing well-architected principals including operational efficiency, cost effectiveness, security, reliability, and performance.

Organize and lead a monthly-ish meetup and other special events, education classes, and hackathons centered around JavaScript, Node.JS, and software development with a heavy emphasis on inclusivity within the Boston tech community.

Remote First Company, Us

Developed and executed the vision and strategy for G-P’s infrastructure, data platform, application security, change management, and developer enablement, resulting in improved system performance, availability, data quality, security, and developer productivity.Worked with the recruiting team to identify staffing needs and hired diverse teams, expanding engineering across multiple markets, including North America, Poland, N. Ireland, Ireland, India, and Uruguay, growing from 25 to 100 engineers in less than a year.Developed and executed a comprehensive three-year roadmap to transform G-P’s B2B/B2C platform monolith into domain-driven microservices leveraging AWS-managed, serverless-first infrastructure such as DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, and Aurora RDS serverless for building a developer experience that provided safety and rigor via guardrails while minimizing disruption and overhead via golden paths, resulting in increased scalability, flexibility, performance, and improved developer productivity and satisfactionLed the development of the platform data strategy for IPO preparations; led the data platform migration ERP from Acumatica to Workday. Directed teams in the evaluation, architecture, and implementation of a cutting-edge data platform utilizing Databricks, future-proofing the data infrastructure to meet the demands of the company's projected growth trajectory.Designed, built, and launched significant customer-facing platform integrations, including single-sign-on with ADP and G-P’s expanded Time & Expense offering with Zoho.Collaborated with product and operations teams to develop long-term solutions for platform and infrastructure issues impacting the customer experience, including zero-downtime, while effectively communicating engineering strategic plans to internal stakeholders, managing feedback, and adjusting priorities appropriately across the company, resulting in increased alignment and trust.

Boston, Ma, Us

Spearheaded a $21M portfolio of 120+ full-stack web and mobile B2C digital platform developers across 18 teams, achieving impressive growth of 60+ staff and a noteworthy 75-point increase in eNPS. Effectively managed multi-site operations across Boston, New Hampshire, Indiana, Seattle, and N. Ireland, providing optimal Online Billing, Payments, Policy Management, Claims Management, and Identity & Access Management services.Successfully aligned OKRs with customer-facing KPIs, driving continuous improvement and achieving high customer satisfaction rates for Liberty Mutual and Safeco Online self-service.Conceptualized and implemented a technology modernization roadmap, migrating the portfolio to AWS-managed and serverless-first, event-driven service architecture. This initiative led to remarkable increases in platform stability, reliability, and uptime to an impressive 99.95% while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) by a notable 1600% within one year.Fostered cross-functional solid partnerships with product and UX teams delivering innovative B2C React.JS and Angular web clients, iOS/Android native apps, and Node.JS microservices.Streamlined incident resolution, reducing customer incident resolution time from multiple weeks to an impressive five days.

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed and coached six cross-functional teams, adding 40+developers. Increased team productivity by over 30% and reduced delivery time by 20%.High engagement scores across direct reports, business partners, and peers resulted in advancement to Director of Engineering for the entire Digital Service & Claims Portfolio.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Successfully led a team of nine engineers at a seed-stage, VC-funded startup, hiring and mentoring A-player individuals to foster a high-performing team culture.Conceptualized and developed an enterprise-grade B2B SaaS platform, integrating multidimensional security scanning tools under a singular API and dashboard using Angular, React, Mesosphere, Node.JS, and Python microservices.

Bedford, Massachusetts, Us

Designed and developed significant enhancements to iRobot’s serverless-first pioneering of the AWS IoT Platform by utilizing Elasticsearch, Kibana, and custom services to extend core API metadata querying.Architected APIs and interfaces for connected home devices using serverless components via AWS managed services, resulting in significant long-term cost-effectiveness for hardware cost-cutting initiatives for market viability.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led a global team of 12 developers across three locations to build a highly-scalable set of microservices for IoT device provisioning, metadata storage and retrieval, and Identity & Access Management using Node.JS and Aurora RDS on AWS.Mentored and coached team members to enhance their technical skills, demonstrated proficiency in agile methodologies, and collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product delivery, contributing to the development of best practices and standards for software development.

Created Building Information Model (BIM)-compliant products for use with Naval Maritime Asset Lifecycle contracts, standardizing data, process, and visualization across dozens of contracting firms and decreasing time to annual collection from months to weeks.Architected and field-tested iOS-based mobile applications for remote data collection, compliant with classification and networking conditions.

Columbia, Md, Us

Delivered 3D scene visualization and reporting platform for inspection data, defect tracking, and asset verification using x3d/VRML, establishing the standard for Navy Facilities defect tracking and planning. Created custom applications for Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center Seafloor Cable Protection Office, to alert and report on potential incidents.

Boadilla Del Monte, Madrid, Es

Developed customized components for the wire transfer system, resulting in direct web access management and efficiencies on top of a mainframe-based product.Created components for enhanced logging, tracking, and auditing of all systems to ensure adequate access management and security for auditing any system changes.

Weston, Massachusetts, Us

Architected and developed a comprehensive site redesign and portal implementation for regiscollege.edu, including a new CMS platform using Sitecore and Lucene for SEO.Mentored and managed contractors and student workers on web development, site design, and marketing.

Boston, Ma, Us

Designed and built back and front-end authorization auditing for Sovereign's wire transfer system, including web controls to display status messages for client-side and server-side validation.Integrated key vendor technology into local bank transaction platforms for Wire Transfers and Credit Validation via the online portal.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Master’S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Music, Music Performance, Audio Production