R&D Security Architect

Tech Lead for the Platform Security team

Platform Infrastructure Team

• Third engineer at a fast paced 3PL startup; responsible for designing, building, and owning multiple core systems that scaled the company from 0 clients to 35+ within 2 years• Spearheaded Shopify integration, providing real‑time inventory levels and ingesting customer orders for fulfillment• Architected fault‑tolerant, horizontally scalable printer management system allowing for custom supply chain document creation. Successfully printed over 250,000+ documents• Refactored critical, production database schema improving average inventory ledger query times by 90% and bulk order processing time by 75%

• Engineering lead of a team of 4 intermediate and senior level developers• Directed team towards adopting a functional code base with Scala Cats + FS2 • Architected a multi‑service initiative to optimize safety stock levels and reduce order shorting

• Conflated inventory management systems across banners as part of the shared selling initiative, driving double‑digit growth for the Gilt banner

• Refactored mission critical service to use Postgres instead of Mongo; strategized deployment re‑sulting in zero downtime• Modified website delivery window calculation to include customer location, improving checkoutconversion across many US states

• Optimized user characteristics processing with development of Scala service leveraging Spark • Designed and deployed Spark cluster to production atop of Apache Mesos

• Designed and built a public API with Scala + Play as part of the global redistribution team to provide inventory and catalog information to redistribution partners, increasing global incremental revenue by more than 40%.• Integrated existing Scala services with the warehouse management system using Apache Camel and RabbitMQ• Aided in migration process to AWS + Docker infrastructure• Contributed to several community-renowned Gilt open-source projects including apidoc

• Engineered service layer application written in Scala with Play, Akka, and Salat (MongoDB)• Constructed an algorithmic process to pass images for editing, resulting in time savings of over 90% per vendor• Designed and programmed a solution for vendor provided images, resulting in reducing vendor on-boarding time

• Researched and engineered cloud security solutions• Developed security modules for PingFederate SAML servers written in Java• Integrated Kerberos, SAML, and Siteminder single sign-on solutions• Designed and programmed web applications in Java and NodeJS

• Configured and programmed Cisco IOS based routers and switches and Riverbed WAN optimization• Scripted and optimized software backup system for global network devices using OOB modems• Programmed intranet web server using Perl, HTTP, and CSS• Designed and developed intranet web server using NTLM pass-through authentication• Performed network cabling, device installation, and maintenance in a data center environment (complying with the ITIL model)- Organized and instructed technicians to perform equipment installation and testing in remote sites