Building infra to power cutting edge AI apps

Led design and implementation of Global Regulatory Engine empowering engineering and legal teams to work together to rapidly encode legal requirements for new territories and payment flows. This enables faster go to market times and enhanced monitoring and alerting for potentially erroneous fund flows.Implemented new Fx Rates service as the first major real-time service on a new high performance Java SOA platform. Served tens of thousands of requests per second with p99 of under 10ms.Prototyped and led proposal for new Sub Balances based system for tracking regulatory liability across merchant balances which would enable self serve integration by global teams.

Member of 5 person ‘Landing Team’ selected to open and grow a new engineering office in Mexico City. Helped create a successful engineering candidate pipeline and onboarded new local new hires.Led implementation of Brazil onboarding experience and KYC adherence to enable successful public beta of Stripe payments and Connect products to Brazilian market.Helped implement Mexico tax automation system that enabled successful submission of tens of thousands of tax invoices and rapid expansion of Mexico user base.Led creation of customizable business intelligence dashboards that were adopted by all global teams.

Led the the design and implementation of Stripe Terminal (https://stripe.com/terminal): a self-serve, developer focused toolset for accepting card-present payments. Designed and implemented business metrics ETL pipeline to power key metrics dashboard to inform key product decisions. Led the successful merging of Index and Stripe technical stacks post acquisition to enable launch of the new Stripe Terminal product within 6 months post acquisition.

Led front end team of 4 in creation of client application that empowered users to effectively manage hundreds of deployed payment terminals including customize their assets and do over the air software updates.Helped design and implement an offline payments processing system that effectively used idempotency keys and advanced retry/reversal logic to enable merchants to successfully accept millions of dollars of payments when local network infrastructure failed while preventing double charges and administrative toil.Helped design and implement Protobuf based protocol to enable communication between Point of Sale and embedded application on payments terminal that enabled payments integration with any system including the ACE system.

Used agile development practices to develop custom application for managing financial instruments across multiple groups.Designed and developed a unit testing framework for use with Appian’s custom programming language.Prototyped and pitched chrome-plugin that let user create End-to-End and Integration tests with no programming knowledge.Prototyped and pitched automated testing bot that crawled through application and performed random testing a well as common edge-case testing.

Created highly concurrent and fault-tolerant software to crawl social networks and extract public data using Scala and Akka.Used MongoDB Map-Reduce and Aggregation Framework to efficiently analyze large amounts social data.Used jQuery and Redis to create real-time graphs for visualization of progress of crawlers

Created preliminary financial advising plans for clients* Researched stocks and mutual funds using technical and fundamental analysis to decide which fit the client’s best interests

Collaborated with Dr. Henrique Pereira, Professor and former President of state level IBAMA (Brazil’s version of EPA) onpreparation of scientific papers investigating both Brasil and Amazon Rainforest’s relationship to global climate change

Worked with IT department and helped remotely manage client devices including diagnosing and correct computer hardware and network issues