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Washington, Dc, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Engineered the decommissioning of a monolithic system, correcting course on the project with cross-functional coordination and bi-weekly team accountability meetings. Coordinated with data center teams for support during the transition to the cloud, impacting developer velocity positively.Led the development and rollout of localization services for Cash App's front and backend, scaling the team from one to a fully functional group with systematic internal team coordination, enabling global expansion.Expanded the product platform organization to over 50 engineers, supporting key infrastructure services crucial for customer features, including internationalization and data protocol services.Managed a $50M budget across cloud hardware and SaaS products, optimizing spending through strategic negotiations and planning with cross-departmental collaboration.Led a remote-first team of 4 senior managers and 7 staff engineers across the US and Canada, with partnerships in Australia and Europe, utilizing technologies like Kotlin, Go, Kubernetes, DynamoDB, MySQL, AWS, Vitess, and microservices.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Initiated work streams in internal tools, private brands, and fashion detail pages, utilizing Java/Spring, JavaScript, Perl, Python, TypeScript, AWS, React, and React-Native.Established team structure, vision, and best practices, leading to the lowest attrition rate in the Softlines organization.Bootstrapped the Private Brands Ads/Merchandizing team, hiring 15 engineers in 4 months, including three senior positions, and acted as the lead system architect.Integrated machine learning capabilities with the team, setting processes with data scientists for testing and deploying algorithms at scale with low latency.Expanded the team from 2 to 29 members through hiring and recruiting, overseeing a matrixed team across three locations and interfacing globally.Delivered over 30 A/B testable projects, generating $50M in incremental annualized revenue.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Managed 25 custom corporate apps and developer tools essential to Twitter operations, ensuring high-quality and uptime. Technologies included Ruby/Rails, Angular, and Scala, running on Apache Mesos and Linux in Twitter data centers.Scaled the team from 4 to 21 software engineers through direct hiring, acqui-hires, and internal transfers, with team members in London, New York, Boulder, and San Francisco, ranging from interns to staff engineers.Coordinated with external consulting firms, aligning with Twitter best practices and managing project scopes and schedules with the TPM group.Demonstrated versatility by assuming roles of engineering manager, product manager, or tech lead as needed for various projects.Collaborated with internal stakeholders, including engineering and HR, to gather requirements and establish timelines.Fostered leadership within the team, grooming tech leads for project management duties and promoting one to a managerial position.Developed and communicated the team's vision, roadmap, and quarterly OKR goals to ensure alignment with the broader engineering team.Participated in critical build vs. buy decisions for applications with significant impact on all Twitter employees.Cultivated a team culture characterized by agility, productivity, continuous learning, customer focus, and technical excellence.

New York, New York, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Ms, Management Of Software Systems Development