Joel D'Souza Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Responsible for the overall strategy of the business, product, and backend (API) development.• Cultivated and maintained strong industry relationships to facilitate product and growth opportunities.About Barespend :-Barespend is an ML-powered expense automation platform designed to save businesses time and money. With our simple, easy-to-use platform, businesses can easily track expenses, enforce policies, and get real-time visibility into their spending. Say goodbye to manual processes and hello to closing your books 5x faster with Barespend.

• Provide fractional CTO / advisory services to non-technical executives to assist with technologystrategy and execution for early stage startups.• Devised technology roadmap and advised on architectural aspects of the JackHenry TreasuryManagement SaaS platform - git adoption, feature flag approach with trunk-based dev, transition to .NET Core 3.1 & microservices, API platform w/ complementary UI plugin framework• As an architecture engagement consultant at Link Logistics, assisted with foundational product, design and technical frameworks for the brand new Architecture department• 2ULaundry - Managed all things RevOps-related driven off an in-house solution built on top of Stripe and Metabase. Designed and built a revenue capture and reporting platform for their new franchising business.

Modern financial planning and wealth management

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

My responsibilities included the development and delivery of our on-premises and SaaS solutions, and working with our Product Management group to establish roadmaps, capabilities, and desired outcomes. I also worked with the engineering teams to efficiently deliver the product capabilities as specified by our Product department. The engineering department was over 25 people at its peak.• Member of the executive team, responsible for day-to-day and long-term direction of technology organization. Drove tech vision, budget and roadmap. Participated in weekly C-level executive meetings as well as board meetings. • Grew and mentored the engineering team 4X in a span of a quarter.• Championed the move of our legacy product suite to an Azure PaaS cloud-based platform modeland delivered within 6 months of being at the company. This included modernization of the technical stack and adoption of new architectural approaches.• Drove multiple process improvements, including updates to branching strategies, testing approaches, DevOps, and security processes for open source and software vulnerabilities.• Delivered the company's very first multi-OS (iOS and Windows) mobile product, At Your Side, tobe cloud-ready as well as HIPAA and SOC2 compliant.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

As head of software and research engineering, grew the team from 2 to 20 engineers during my stint and helped grow product and serving systems 300X to manage $600 million in loan volume. Acquired by Ally Financial in 2019.

Pivoted to providing strategic guidance around product/market fit. Assisted with vetting outsourced partners to continue to support product maintenance.

Develop company's technology vision in conjunction with strategic product road-map and business goals alignment to enable rapid product prototyping. Responsibilities also included architecting product and API platform with a cost-effective Azure PaaS cloud-based strategy along with building a talented team to cover business-critical engineering needs. Also participated in preparation for seeking investment and initial discussions with potential investors.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Delivered technical leadership working alongside LOB management and product leads to define new vertical revenue streams as well refine existing verticals by ensuring legacy product stability. My primary focus was leading the technical architecture and business definition of the new Small Business Loans initiative. Secondary focuses were on assisting the Mortgage, My LendingTree and DegreeTree teams hit their deadlines and targets. These initiatives collectively contributed to a 300% growth in the company's value over the span of 18 months.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

I was a key part of the design and development team that strategically conceived and brought to life the company’s largest revenue generating and high-profile product , AvidPay, that contributed to AvidXchange turning into the $2+bn "unicorn" it is today.Architected and led the development of an initiative to bring multiple lines of business (Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Invoices, Payments) under one umbrella from a UI/UX and functionally consistent standpoint.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

During my initial years at Avid, I designed and developed a rich-client framework to bring in drastically improved usability coupled with a fresh UI as well as RESTful APIs to increase ease of integrations and connectivity for the flagship SaaS paperless accounts payable solutions - AvidInbox, AvidBill and AvidInvoice.Technologies included .Net 3.5/4.0, C#, ASP.Net MVC, HTML/CSS, jQuery/JavaScript, WCF, WF4, AppFabric, SQL Server 2005/2008 and BizTalk Server 2009.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Developed global trade management web applications and web services.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

University Career Center website development. Streamlined internal HR processes and applications. Introduced a student advising system.

Managed a ten member team responsible for the implementation of an e-Governance Portal for the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Economics involving an integration of SharePoint Server 2007, BizTalk Server 2006 and ASP.NET/C# 2.0Led a team of five developers to implement a content management system as well the accompanying web application ( http://gpp.env.state.ma.us ) using ASP.Net2.0, C# and SQL Server 2005.

Oslo, No

Involved in the design, development and testing of the Digimaker Web Content Management System product and the upgrade of the product to the .Net 2.0 platform.Developed custom web components/controls in C# to be used across multiple web applications built using ASP.NET, Microsoft Atlas/AJAX Controls, and SQL Server 2000 and a variety of custom enterprise solutions and web portals to be inline with requirements set by various customers:• Mercedes Benz Middle East – www.mb-me.com• Financial Times – www.ftadviser.com• Dodge, Chrysler & Jeep – www.mideast.chrysler.com

Analysed, designed, and implemented a management information reports module to provide a central reporting system for six stores. Introduced modules to replace the existing MSAccess reporting system and implemented in C#/ASP.NET. Additionally, Maintained all aspects of server network implementations including network planning, deployment and maintenance of Windows based systems / developed training and support plans for 50-user network.

Germantown, Md, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

B.S., Computer Science

M.S., Computer Science

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