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Tampa, Fl, Us

Tampa, Florida, Us

• Moved microservice AWS environments to Infrastructure as code to reduce costs and increased flexibility.• Managed PCI network as a Payment Facilitator, flowing more than $3 B in transactions annually.• Managed teams spread across the USA and India• Reduced monthly infrastructure costs by > 20%• Reduced monthly software tools spend for entire company by > 40%• Built Gen AI chatbot to reduce costs and time for phone support team – rolled out on AWS Bedrock using Cohere,RAG and Vector DB

Tampa, Florida, Us

• Worked with executive team and marquee customers to envision new retail and restaurant solutions, then rapidly deploy POCs• Responsible for software and infrastructure architecture, including managing the full microservice architecture, designing services, domain driven design, security and deployment.• Managed multiple delivery teams, 100s of FTEs, in delivering solutions.• Managed teams spread across the USA and India• Partnered with VP of Engineering to ensure delivery of software and architectural designs.• Managed team of 20+ engineers and architects• Lead Sales Engineering team of 4 enterprise SEs• Built collateral for SE team and trained SE on solution selling with our enterprise sales reps.• Part of the enterprise sales team, on most big sales calls and part of closing all marquee customers

• Technical due diligence for VC firms on possible investment opportunities.• Help early-stage venture companies define solutions and build POC.• Provide general business guidance and technical advice to early-stage startups.

• Work with prospects and executive to define MVP.• Lead engineering and product management teams in defining and delivering SaaS solutions.• Deployed on AWS multi-region solutions with 5x9 uptime.• Raised $10 M in early-stage venture capital.

Tampa, Fl, Us

• Provided organizational leadership and collaborated with executive partners to establish long-term goals, strategies and company policies.• Directed global network infrastructure strategy, guiding network installations in multiple locations and connecting facilities.• Part of the sales team responsible for selling our solutions to enterprise• Built engineering and presales teams for the organization.

• Worked with executives and potential customers to define and build the MVP of eCommerce Software.• We built the first internet eCommerce Solution every sold.• Pioneered Java and J2EE technologies to support our software.• Built the first high scale, high volume Java server solution ever designed and pioneered Java performance and scalewith Sun Microsystems directly.• Grew the engineering and product management teams from 2 to 300+ employees.• Part of enterprise sales team that was closing more than $5 MM / month before acquisition.• While the software was not SaaS, as it did not exist at the time, we pioneered SaaS concepts used in deploying oursolutions.

Architect, designed and built the Redux backup software. Redux ran on Mac System 5- 7 and functioned to allow users to back up their hard disks to floppy disk for archival and storage.