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• Led the overall strategic direction and technological vision of 6 engineering teams comprised of 45 Engineers and 6 Engineering Managers• Successfully scaled up 3 engineering teams to develop a supply-side portal for our hotel advertising product, launching within a 6-month timeframe. This initiative eliminated manual processes for managing ad campaigns, resulting in a 78% reduction in billing issues and a 48% increase in ad campaign volume• Spearheaded implementation of subscription capability, enabling the swift development of a 'Travel Protection Plan' which resulted in a 160% increase in customer spending share• Drove the initiative to build a robust payment service, laying the foundation for scalability and enabling Hotel Engine to swiftly integrate payment solutions into new products• Refined our technical design process, enhancing project reliability and delivery. This led to an increase in on-time project completion from 70% to 85%, and a significant reduction in defect rate from 30% to 12%

• Led the overall strategic direction and technological vision of 4 engineering teams comprised of 30 Engineers and 4 Engineering Managers• Successfully built and executed a roadmap to expand Hotel Engine into 4 new international markets• Headed the security and compliance team to achieve SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, revamping processes and policies for stronger security and privacy. Led cross-functional collaboration to identify risks and enforce key security measures

• Lead cross-functional development teams• Responsible for driving technical vision of teams while managing direct reports• Regularly iterate on development processes and standards to maximize team velocity

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Build internal systems responsible for handling core functions of day to day operations in an agile process• Quickly and effectively migrated payment gateway responsible for processing millions of dollars of transactions to Stripe for which I was recognized as employee of the month• Helped design and build Rails API for new Airbnb like consumer product• Mentor Junior Engineers

Denver, Colorado, Us

Denver, Co, Us

• Built software for the event/conference industry as a full-stack Ruby on Rails engineer• Designed meeting proposal product enabling Zerista to compete in new markets• Created extendable matchmaking platform and algorithms used to suggest meetings• Maintained full test coverage using TDD principles• Participated in detailed technical design and code reviews

Golden, Colorado, Us