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Seattle, WA

Issaquah, Washington, United States

• Lead contributor for R’leyh Software, boutique software consultancy firm, which delivered 15+ full-stack projects, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies.
• Innovated relentlessly to deliver custom technical solutions that optimize time to market, scalability, quality, and cost for each project using latest technology [AI, data, serverless]

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Lead contributor for TopTalk.AI, a bot platform interactable via phone call, text, Android or iOS app, for knowledge base anchored conversations and education.
• Designed, developed and continuously improved a scalable full-stack bot platform using OpenAI GPT-4o, Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech models [AI]

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Hired and led the Engineering Team for Amazon Fuse, allowing 3rd parties resellers such as mobile operators to distribute Amazon services subscriptions, such as Amazon Prime or Prime Video. Amazon Fuse is integrated.
• Built and led an engineering cross-functional team from 3 to 74 full-time engineers (25-fold increase), including 12 managers, across 7 global locations
• Responsible for the execution, architecture and technical vision of the Amazon Fuse
• Joined the core founding team of Amazon Fuse, expanded the team (from 10 to 120) and program to 150+ partners across 50+ countries worldwide, establishing it as a key customer acquisition channel
• Grew leaders, team capabilities and scope while avoiding burnout
• Influenced senior leaders within organization and across company for maximizing speed to market, excellency and minimizing risk

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Led the transformation to microservice architecture for Finagraph, enabling professional and financial services firms to collect and analyze financial data from their business customers.
• Transformed the engineering organization by implementing leaner software and product development processes through re-architecting to serverless platform, adopting agile methodologies, and integrating continuous.

Greater Seattle Area

• Led the software platform powering Rune, enabling web publishers’ users to annotate and share content seamlessly across their social networks. [ads-tech/publishing]
• Designed, developed, and implemented a technology stack handling +1M/day web requests with low latency for web page annotations authoring and retrieval [scale]

Seattle, WA

• Led the interoperability and billing team for Practice Fusion, largest cloud-based Electronic Health Records platform in the USA. [medical]
• Led the development of interoperability and billing features for Electronic Health Records (EHR) and data platform systems, enabling secure, scalable bidirectional exchange of patient medical records and superbills.

Redmond, WA

• Led the hosting and interfaces team for the Chakra Javascript Engine, facilitating efficient and scalable integration with various products, including Internet Explorer and Modern Apps [compilers]

Redmond, WA

• Designed, developed and shipped the backend services powering the Microsoft Studios Xbox 360 Kinect-enabled games, for photo and video social sharing. This platform was evangelized and shipped across 10+ Kinect titles.

Redmond, WA

• Designed and implemented major areas of the Forefront Protection Manager for Enterprise as well as a scalable data-model library leveraged by Exchange and SharePoint [enterprise security]

Redmond, WA

• Owned the testing of Microsoft Identity Integration Server, synchronization engine between connected directories [identity]

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Contributed as Research Scholar to the advances of the Unified Parallel C (UPC) language in High-Performance Computing field.
• Designed, implemented and optimized parallel benchmarks [HPC]

Ph.D, Computer Science

M.S., Computer Engineering

M.S., Computer Science