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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.
• 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.

• 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