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Brought together 4 separate teams into our new Financial Platforms group and evolved it over time to be responsible for credit card issuance & processing, global payments, accounting, billing, pricing and underwriting. More than doubled the group up to ~60 engineers, 9 engineering managers. Set forth a money movement vision for the company and supported all teams as Brex went global to ensure we could operate around the world to offer solutions such as global reimbursements & card payments, contactless cards, 3DS auth etc.

Built Brex's Underwriting team (previously a shared domain between data science & data platform) responsible for constant assessment of customers' financial data to determine credit card spend limits & provide a lovable user experience. Drove exploration & implementation of very small business underwriting, using personal credit data to inform a business line of credit.

Supported our Experiences teams: * Core Experiences - building workflows & platforms to enable highest quality customer support & operations * Internal Tools - owning the infrastructure & key tools for multiple internal systems * Experience Platform - mobile & web portal component libraries & critical flows; comms & client API

Responsible for all engineering efforts behind Lyft’s customer support experience which covers our in-app help platform, user communications infrastructure (voice, email, in-app messaging and SMS) and tooling that our many thousands of associates use every day. I managed 3 teams (split into 5 pods), ~35 engineers across server, frontend and mobile, including 3 managers. We rebuilt the communications & associate tooling systems as well as providing ML-based self help options for users to resolve their own issues, all of which significantly drove down the cost of support while improving the customer’s experience and satisfaction

Worked cross-functionally with product, data science and growth marketers to create tooling to enable management of thousands of ads across 10+ platforms, all with region-specific requirements, saving ~20 marketers 3 weeks of effort every quarter. Also responsible for Lyft’s referrals programs. Group consisted of 15 engineers, 2 managers.

TV TIME's vision is to have the world's largest social TV platform across mobile, web and social media.- Responsible for all engineering for the company - frontend, backend, ops, metrics, QA - across two locations- Responsible for our development process from idea inception to release- Hands-on coding in web (ReactJS/Redux/ES6/PHP) & backend (NodeJS/PHP/AWS)- Moved from SCRUM to Kanban to reduce overhead and increase release frequency- Set short and medium term goals for the engineering teams- Define, build and grow teams for our needs- Performed due diligence & integration with acquired tech company(TV TIME was previously Whipclip, a company that ingested live TV and allowed user to create short video clips of ingested feeds. We rebranded in May 2017)

- Responsible for all Android, iOS and web development & QA for the Hulu platform- Built Hulu’s first cross-platform feature team- Architect for several of Hulu’s major projects (commercial free tier, Showtime package add-on) to cater for high scalability and complex cross-platform situations- Co-ordinated with multiple teams across Santa Monica, Seattle and Beijing- Worked closely with the product team to increase subscriber growth via UX changes and complex A/B testing- Set hiring processes for teams under my responsibility

- Quickly tripled local dev team, working closely with our web team in Beijing- Worked closely with Project Management to streamline our SCRUM process, increase communication and become a much more efficient team- Transitioned QA from customer service team to newly hired in-team QA- Hands-on development in Rails/BackboneJS- Mentored interns in building critical production, highly trafficked systems in production

Responsible for product management, user experience and software development of the web and mobile experiences for Truexpo, a Chattanooga, TN startup dedicated to revolutionizing the experience for conference goers and other types of mass event.

Oversee the Development and User Experience teams. Advise on technical architecture, plan projects, co-ordinate between departments and with internal and external clients.

Software architecture, development (primarily Flex, .Net), team management, full project lifecycle from sales through spec, user experience, technical architecture, development, deployment and support. Setup a development team and all internal networking and servers.

C++ Windows application development, website development in ASP the Flash, Flex and .Net.