As the Senior Director of Engineering, I oversee all projects, both internal and external facing, people management, delivery timelines and technical and architectural decision making for the Collective. I will also engage with grantees and partners, helping them making sound technical decisions and support the growth of technical talent in non-profit organizations,

Emerson’s mission is to advance some of society's most calcified systems, creating pathways to genuine opportunity so people from all communities can achieve their full potential.I lead a team of engineers and data scientists to architect, develop, and operate high quality, secure, and reliable software and data systems while supporting external partners (including grantees and investment portfolio companies).

The Justice40 initiative and screening tool were announced in an Executive Order in January 2021, with the goal to launch an MVP of the tool by July 27, 2021. This tool will include interactive maps and an initial draft scorecard which federal agencies can use to prioritize historically overburdened and underserved communities for benefits in their programs.- Oversee a team of 4 engineers in the backend, frontend and data analysis areas- Work alongside government stakeholders on project documentation, guidance and execution - Designed a Python ETL data ingestion pipeline from 35 different sources to generate a score for the ranking of affected communities by climate decisions- Develop the CI/CD pipelines for the testing and deployment of the geojson data for the mapping tool- Contributed with the improvement of the agile engineering processes for the team- Interfaced with and fostered the open source community for the project

Initially hired as a tech lead for the Core Platform Team of an AI-powered “complete the look” personalization platform that powers high traffic clients like Adidas, Reebok, Perry Ellis and Rogers, and then promoted as Head of Engineering to lead the whole engineering team- Led the architecting and deployment of the third version of the complete the look platform, including API, service oriented architecture and deployment using Kubernetes- Improve the onboarding process for clients, cutting integration times by half- In charge of engineering happiness including mentorship, one on ones and performance reviews- Revamped the documentation process for internal and external facing processe

Technical leadership for an early stage AI startup, including the design, architecture and implementation of version 2 of the Complete The Look API, which powers world wide brands like Adidas, Reebok, Perry Ellis and BCBG, coach and mentor the team, interview candidates, implement PCI-level security and scale the platform to withstand seasonal spikes and growing product databases. Stack is asynchronous Python, and was in charge of implementing Quart to replace AIOHttp for the frontends.

Help technology enterprises with the following services:- Mobile and Web Development of scalable MVPs- Assist with technology and product roadmap, both short term and long term- Review engineering processes and recommend improvements- Coach tech leaders on everything related to engineering processes and people ops - Server architecture and scaling analysisClients include Pluvio, Auctio, Karp Reilly (Patxis Pizza, Linksoul, Trina Turk), GIVZ, Agolo and Wheatpaste.

Hired as the first Engineering Manager to help transition the company from startup to enterprise-level company Oversaw the Core Platform and Scaling teams which drove all the development of the core client APIs and database scaling (including MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and Celery). Responsible for a team of backend engineers, including coaching, reviews and compensation decisions. Completed along with People Ops, Head of Engineering and other Engineering managers a full reorganization of the Engineering team, including project tracking with JIRA, documentation with Confluence, core values, engineering levels, overhaul of the hiring process, bug tracking and triaging and software development lifecycle process. Shifted from a fuzzy project delivery to agile shipping, resulting in the delivery of two major projects that had been in the works for several months with no end in sight. Led the technical vision for important projects as the new people feed, Pay With Venmo, OFAC realtime P2P payment screening and refactoring the application to be in line with Django’s specifications. Learned Swift programming languange as a personal goal.

Led a team of developers and contractors in refactoring both external web properties as well as internal tools, increasing the visibility of the team by interfacing with other team leads as well as instituting a more streamlined Agile process that has improved the team's productivity.

Focused on the architecture, scaling and development of OrderGroove's platform that powers the subscription programs for leading eCommerce companies like Grainger, L'Oreal, Johnson&Johnson and CVS using a combination of cloud and dedicated clusters and leveraging Python, JavaScript, MongoDB, MySQL and Linux OS.

Designed, architected and coded the initial version of a SaaS contuinity platform, which runs via JavaScript in eCommerce shopping cart, and through A/B testing and tracking of cart actions, allows customers to purchase products on a recurring basis using a RESTful API system leveraging Python, MongoDB, MySQL and Django. Additionally recruited and supervised a core team of engineers to continue the platform's development while guaranteeing industry-standard uptime and response times using a combination of cloud and dedicated clusters.

Architected and supervised the development of a SaaS platform which allowed the asset management of 300,000+ videos, including workflow, payment to creators, encoding to Flash using On2, as well as acustomer-facing content management portal which served clients such as LG Electronics, Procter&Gamble, Shopping.com and Sears.

Supervised a team of 3 Software Developers, 5 Product Managers and 3 Content Editors in Miami and Mexico City and oversaw the development cycle of Yahoo! Products for the region, including Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Mail and various advertiser based microsites like Pepsi Música.

Transition the Netmio.com website into the Univision local websites as well as proper shutdown of Netmio.com assets.

Led the technical development of Netmio.com, the local online portal for the largest Hispanic radio network at the time, Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation (now Univision Radio). The role included overseeing the site architecture, software development, talent recruitment, budgets and product lifecycle for the portal which offered local places, news, events, audio streaming, targeted newsletters and banner advertising for 15 cities and 47 radio stations using a custom designed CMS that leveraged Vignette StoryServer.