Recharge, Regroup, Refocus...Learning more about tensors, transformers, feature stores, etc.

Managed 4 teams comprised of 2 managers and 13 engineers.Platform Upgrade & Migration: Leading the strategy for the modernization of our decisioning platform to provide enhanced capabilities at scale for more than 100M decisions per year, and continue to support the growth of our business for the upcoming years.Collaborate & Influence: Collaborate with other directors and senior leadership on key strategicinitiatives.Strategic Planning: Led the strategic planning for the overall risk engineering organization, looking at the long term goals for building a system that scales both in transaction volumes processed but also in functional capabilities for our internal stakeholders. Managed difficult prioritization of projects and provided transparency across the org.Team Dynamics/Leadership Style: I lead with empathy and transparency. I believe in trusting people and empowering them to do their best, challenging them positively to grow their skills and develop their leadership abilities.Metrics/Reporting: Work closely with other engineering leaders and DevOps team to establish a KPI.

My teams build our Zip Global Decisioning Platform to deliver the highest approval rates of the market while ensuring the most optimal loss rates, for multiple regions across the world.Scaled from 7 engineers to 15 engineers & 2 managers in 9 months.Platform that processes ~$4B in yearly transaction volume & ~4M monthly active users.Tactical to Strategic Transition - Shifting from tactical (small team to build) to a scale up oriented on strategy and the growth of the department (from 1 team to 4 teams).Effective Delivery - Executing the implementation of the new credit underwriting strategy to reduce loss rates that puts the company on a path to profitability. Also managed the engineering response team that handled a fraud attack, effectively shutting down in a record time a complex network of fraudsters with minimum impact to our business.Machine Learning Scaling - Led the evaluation for a Feature Store vendor that would provide scalability & reliability to our data science practice. Closely involved in the creation of a ML Ops team that would support the scaling of our data science practice. I helped interview candidates and define the remit of this team.Team Ceremonies - Established norming sessions, team demos, retrospectives, lunch & learn, funFridays, on-site team building. Contributed to the team culture, productivity & retention.Compliance - Collaborated closely with Legal and Compliance, staying ahead of our regulatoryrequirements. Implemented technology changes required to the success of Zip’s partnership withWebBank (Federal Licencing).

Hired and managed a team of 6 engineers.

Part of the early engineering team that took Quadpay from 0 to 1.

First engineer building a wellness mobile app informed by health behavior change research.Angular app backed by a Ruby/MongoDb back-end.

Expert developer on the counterparty credit risk application used by the trading desks and risk management desk for all the bank's OTC derivatives..Net C# WinForms client application backed by Java SOAP services.