Driving product led growth and scalable innovation• Partnered closely with the C-suite to align engineering initiatives with strategic business goals, successfully transitioning to a product led growth model.• Led the development of key features that increased user engagement by over 300%.• Defined the company’s technical vision, implementing scalable architecture to support rapid growth and future innovation.• Introduced and optimized CI/CD pipelines, Agile processes, and testing strategies, significantly improving development efficiency and product quality.• Scaled systems and infrastructure to accommodate high user demand, ensuring performance and reliability.• Oversaw the entire tech stack, infrastructure, and security, delivering seamless, scalable, and secure operations.• Effectively managed technology budgets and resources, balancing innovation with cost efficiency.• Built and led the engineering team from the ground up, growing it within two years while fostering a culture of mentorship, talent development, and high performance.

Building the foundations for growth and excellence• Established foundational engineering practices, systems, and processes to enable scalable growth.• Provided technical leadership during the early phases of key product development, setting the stage for future success.

Financial technology leadership and strategic delivery• Provided technical leadership across three cross-functional teams, focusing on architecture, development practices, and production support.• Delivered a strategic international financial product roadmap, securing executive endorsement and aligning with growth objectives.• Achieved ISO27001 re-certification for two flagship financial products, ensuring robust security and compliance.• Led mental health workshops, introducing focus time and rotating support roles, resulting in improved team efficiency and milestone delivery outcomes.• Mentored team members in development practices and ways of working, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Driving fintech innovation and AI powered Solutions• Architected a Data Science Continuous Delivery platform with AzureML, Kubernetes, and Airflow, featured in a Microsoft AzureML case study (aka.ms/tal-aml).• Designed WunderWriter, an AI-powered financial underwriting tool, winning multiple innovation awards for its transformative impact.• Led enterprise innovation initiatives, including deep cloning optimizations using lambda expressions and cross-team mentoring in DevOps and machine learning.• Spearheaded a 2 day hackathon project, delivering financial savings of over $80,000 annually through operational efficiencies.

Leading high-performing teams and engineering scalable financial platforms• Delivered enterprise-wide CI/CD improvements, introducing gated Octopus deployments and formalizing code review practices (Phabricator, GitLab).• Pioneered the first cloud/docker-deployed .NET Core service in 2016, setting the foundation for modern deployment strategies.• Mentored teams in git, DevOps, and best practices, supporting the TFS-to-Git migration across the organization.• Architected and optimized business reporting workflows, reducing execution time by 87% and improving data-driven decision-making for financial stakeholders.

Driving software excellence across web, desktop, and mobile platforms• Resolved critical concurrency issues in async socket handling (Desktop and CE), eliminating unmanaged memory leaks and improving system stability.• Enhanced a load testing simulator, optimizing performance and ensuring scalability for high-demand scenarios.• Improved database performance by redesigning architecture with proper indexing, implementing CTEs, and optimizing key queries for efficiency.• Delivered cross-platform solutions leveraging modern frameworks and technologies, including Mono for Android and .NET sockets.

Leveraging AI/ML and advanced engineering to optimize financial trading systems• Developed machine learning algorithms to analyze trading data and identify profitable opportunities, leveraging methods like SVM, SOM, and GA.• Built advanced tools for trading pattern recognition, enhancing accuracy in market forecasts and risk assessments.• Enhanced the scalability of trading systems by optimizing memory management and multithreading, driving faster financial insights.• Migrated core trading components from C++ to C#, enhancing maintainability and scalability for complex financial operations.

Architecting high-performance systems and driving development efficiency• Designed and implemented a custom grid processing framework, streamlining complex data workflows.• Introduced and implemented state machine diagrams to enhance user interface module design and functionality.• Re-architected multithreaded and SQL systems to improve performance and mitigate operational risks in financial calculations.• Automated repetitive tasks with custom development scripts, increasing team efficiency and reducing manual effort.

Software developer (PHP, ASP, C#, ASP.NET)Web project design and implementation.Database administration and analysis (MS SQL 2000,2005, PostgreSQL)Technical team manager.

B2B and B2C Web Marketing SolutionApril 2008 C#, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Web Services, Quality Management, Synchronization Services, Performance Optimization

Computer and robot vision research and implementation.Neural networks research and implementation.Speech recognition research and implementation.Telerobotics and interactive learning systems development.Student research project team leader.Software development (C/C++, C#, MS SQL 2000, Matlab).