Managed three highly functioning and delivering teams consisting of 18 developers and quality assurance experts, focusing on 3rd party payment integrations. We designed and built a microservice-based REST API that allows for a single API and integration point for all our key internal and external users, which processes millions of requests and transactions daily.•Offered technical leadership and guidance and participate in code reviews and design/architecture sessions with the teams.•Was responsible for mentoring and coaching to ensure my team members are reaching their potential and are constantly working toward their own career goals.•Held bi-weekly 1-on-1’s ensuring that team members were able to voice their concerns, problems, or roadblocks and assist them when required. •Empowered my employees and delegated tasks to keep them engaged and challenged while pushing them towards their own personal and career goals.•Conducted all interview and hiring processes ensuring quality candidates with a passion for development were hired and maintained a low attrition rate.

Led a team focused on the development of the NETELLER REST API (https://paysafegroup.github.io/neteller_rest_api_v1/) usingGrails and a Tibco Business Works. •Worked with a team to develop and maintain a new API allowing merchants to easily integrate their 3rd party websites.•Developed new products and features to allow merchants superior methods of accepting/making payments to and from their customers including a hosted checkout solution and a subscription-based framework.•Provided leadership and guidance in regards to technical and design decisions including peer/code reviews.•Assisted the product and architecture teams in the creation and evolution of new products and designs.•Helped with interviewing and selecting potential candidates for positions within the company.•Followed agile methodologies and Scrum allowing for better tracking of projects and goals.

Developed and supported new features of the vogogo.com web application and payment gateway using the latest technologies.•Developed a payment gateway and a web based invoicing application in Grails and Python and integrated with PostgreSQL.•Assisted in the development of a highly interactive web user interface built using the latest techniques.•Helped in the creation/maintenance of a REST API for full integration of third party web sites and applications.•Technologies: Grails, Groovy, Python, PostgreSQL, Backbone.js, jQuery, javascript, AJAX, SQL

Tasked with designing, developing and supporting new features for the neteller.com web application.•Work with various teams to design, develop, and implement changes/features/bug fixes to the NETELLER web site.•Wrote and implemented complex SQL queries and views within the web application.•Provided test-first driven development.•Assist the Quality Assurance team to guarantee code changes were thoroughly tested and that bugs are fixed efficiently.•Technologies: Java, Grails, Tibco BusinessWorks, Tomcat, Hibernate, Spring, JSP/JSF, SQL