Principal Software Architect
Rize (Acquired By Fifth Third)
• As the first Backend Engineer hired, I oversaw the formation of the Engineering Team and kickstarted development efforts• Crafted the entire system architecture and ERD which powered our RESTful API built on Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq, and Redis• Implemented many of our enterprise platform components including: double entry bookkeeping accounting, core banking software integration, debit card issuance and management, KYC/AML identity verification, authentication, and fraud monitoring• Managed cloud infrastructure and tools for continuous deployment and systems monitoring leveraging: AWS Cognito, EC2, S3, and KMS, Heroku, Papertrail, New Relic, Sentry, Github, and CircleCI• Implemented a hiring and onboarding process to help us better evaluate candidates and quickly bring them up to speed once hired• Scaled the engineering team from 5 to 20 personnel while transitioning from an on-site only to a fully remote workplace• Provided technical guidance and support during investor pitches and tech diligence calls with clients• Acted as the liaison between technical and non-technical teams in and out of the organization• Coordinated with product, client success, and sales organizations to identify and translate requirements and design solutions ready to be delivered by engineering teams• Managed existing vendor relationships and coordinated new vendor exploration and integrations• Assisted clients as necessary in solutioning integrations with our platform that best met their business objectives• Extensively documented internal and public APIs to aid in coordination with front end teams and business partners using OpenAPI 3.0, Swagger, and ReDoc• Led planning, road mapping, and sprint management efforts