At Monite, a leading fintech-infrastructure company, I spearhead the Product and Design initiatives, focusing on enhancing platform value through embedded finance services. Our offerings span a comprehensive suite of AR, AP, and payments products. I personally developed and maintained our data infrastructure and sophisticated billing engine. My contributions significantly advanced the product and organization's maturity, strategic processes, leadership approach, and data utilization. This evolution has profoundly impacted Monite's growth and operational excellence.

Owner of most highest-priority effort to enable IPO by solving reconciliation-related issues. Led teams to build systems, controls, and processes to ensure accurate internal data and prove accurate money movement. We succeeded in enabling Marqeta to go public. Continued contributions in many different areas of the business, including strategy definition, building/maintaining relationships with key customers, org structure, leading prod/tech analysis of M&A targets, prominent RFP contributor, assisting in resolving major system issues, key input into technical designs, etc.

Led the Product and Technology component of Marqeta's international expansion. Took it from US-only to having offices in 7 countries and processing across 35. In parallel worked specifically to grow Marqeta's EU presence and grow the team and revenue there, while also participating broadly in many of parts of the business.

Owned the backend platform, with a team of 35 reports within Product with sub-teams for Credit, Expense, Virtual cards, Core Processing, and Production Support. Focused on enabling a thriving company to scale in the right way and empowering teams with the right direction, staff, and processes. Launched a large number of new products during this period and saw Marqeta's revenue 10x.

Joined at a very early stage, 30+ employees (now 1000+), following a business pivot from B2C to B2B. Responsible for building the platform, but also also acted as engineering manager, production support, sales engineer, customer success, and more. Very technically hands on - designed most APIs, database schemas, inventor on most patents. We launched of the world's first open issuer-processor APIs with unprecedented and innovative features such as the ability for customers to participate synchronously in transaction decisions. Took the company from 0 to 1 during this period, with no live customers to a company that would double in both size and revenue every year for the next seven years and ultimately IPO.

Responsible for leading and growing team of 35+ engineers across four locations including software engineering, quality assurance, production support, database administration, web application security and compliance. Also owner of back-end systems as well as consumer facing web and mobile applications (iOS, Android). This role was a hybrid product / tech role as Yapstone at the time had no formal product org.

Developed and owned technology and product roadmaps, assigned resources, managed projects. Overhauled and streamlined Engineering processes.

Led domestic and offshore QA teams, including the creation of a robust automated test suite. Built, merged, tagged, branched code for development and QA. Planned and performed releases to production and dev environments. Managed escalated production support for domestic and international products. Created complex customized SQL reports as required. Also planned and perform penetration testing, identifying a number of critical security issues.

Created and owned tier III production support for largest electronic payments processor in the multifamily industry. Involved close interaction with account managers, engineering staff, larger clients, and bank representatives for wide variety of issues. Included reporting and testing system bugs and feature requests as well as frequent SQL utilization.

Administrator of 300 computer WAN with 7 domain controllers across 15 sites. Responsibilitiesincluded VPN, VNC, RDP, VMWare, AD, imaging, Microsoft Exchange, port forwarding,cabling/tracing, inventory deployment and maintenance, licensing, ACT!, Windows Server2000/2003, IIS, print server administration, purchasing, documentation, PDA/phone administration, traveling as needed to various sites.

Independent precision laboratory work involving computer aided data collection on various types of geological samples. Determined such characteristics as porosity, permeability, resistivity, and compressibility. Occasionally involved training and supervising others, troubleshooting PC and complex mechanical system issues. Research published in scientific journals.

Self-run computer repair and graphic design company operated during school and other jobs, which primarily involved the resolution of a wide range of PC issues such as spyware removal, hardware malfunctions, and wireless networking problems. Also entailed graphic design for businesses and events.

Full-time while attending university. Tier I technician position providing Windows email, phone, and personal support to company employees in a large call center/data-entry environment. Included client-side network problems, Microsoft Office issues, troubleshooting, printer configuration/repair, monitor malfunctions, etc.