Compliance, security, integration, and industry advisor

Raised multi-million-dollar seed round alongside the CEO. Rearchitected and built the next generation platform with a focus on improved performance, scalability, security, and analytics in six months. Member of the senior leadership team, instilling a culture of communication, performance, and accountability and orienting the company toward rapid learning and iteration.• Led a 7-person global engineering team in rebuilding the product from a WordPress MVP to a modern, scalable web application• Architected the core platform leveraging cloud-native technologies including AWS Fargate, Aurora, S3, CloudFront, and API Gateway• Integrated the platform with several platforms, including Algolia Site Search, Stripe, and Courier to create a world class experience while minimizing time to get to market• Leveraged Segment and Workato to create data pipelines into Salesforce, giving the commercial team access to real-time utilization data and driving marketing automations• Working alongside the VP of Operations, implemented the Entrepreneur Operating System (EOS) as a framework for execution

Led an architecture and product delivery organization turnaround, leading to a successful exit to Bullhorn, the industry-leading platform.• Served on senior leadership team, aligning business and technology goals and initiatives and enabling the company to exceed revenue goals and progress on major replatforming projects.• Completed SOC2 audit with zero qualified or modified opinions• Reorganized the 13-person engineering team to meet commercial demands and address technical debt in parallel• Managed 6-person outsourced engineering team to supplant a costly and unreliable vendor with a native integration to everify.gov• Rearchitected technology stack to achieve high-availability, auto-scaling, and asynchronous & distributed computing, resulting in unplanned downtime going from 20 minutes per month to zero.• Introduced DORA metrics, resulting in 60% better velocity and shipping high-quality software on time and within budget• Instituted Agile/DevOps best practices for faster and more resilient CI/CD pipelines; greater availability, security, and performance; and better infrastructure and application observability

Advised organizations from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies on cloud architecture, technology strategy, and engineering team decisions.• Created and presented large-scale architecture plans to clients to help them achieve their technology and business goals• Participated in pre-sales activities to give confidence to prospective clients in 3Pillar's ability to support them and advise the sales team on scope and ideal team structure

Founding engineer. Created the Gartner-recognized Faculty Information System category in higher education technology. Scaled the engineering team and product architecture leading to successful exits to Insight Venture Partners and Elsevier.• Served on senior leadership team, planning budgets, product and market strategy, team growth, strategic partnerships, and company-wide technology initiatives• Grew engineering team from a single contributor startup to a team of 25+ software and quality engineers, fostering a culture of trust, support, challenge, and continuous improvement• Managed the integration of an acquired company, including blending of teams, cloud migration, and consolidation of products into a single platform• Owned architecture and software delivery for consumer and enterprise platform servicing over 300 enterprise clients• Managed agile software delivery lifecycle for three delivery teams, including capacity forecasting, quarterly roadmap planning, agile ceremonies, and multiple deployments per week• Architected and maintained cloud-native infrastructure, including compute, storage, relational and NoSQL databases, and serverless functions; maintained > 99.99% uptime• Collaborated across teams to support IT & software requirements of Sales, Marketing, Product, and Client Success team projects• Led all stages of technical due diligence on multiple buy- and sell-side transactions• Participated in all phases of client engagements, including pre-sales, contract negotiation, and post- sales implementation and integration