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Miami, Fl, Us

New York, New York, Us

South San Francisco, California, Us

Tech Lead across four teams at Stripe that own the core payment APIs responsible for supporting all inbound payment trafficLeading a cross-functional effort to build the next-gen payment APIs to support the needs of sophisticated enterprise users with a focus on lower cost and latencyKey architect in defining and building our overall e2e SOA for supporting scalability of various payment APIsManaged the effort across various teams to ship new payment method implementations resulting in an increase of monthly payment volume of >$1BNProduct Architect across the payments domain. I guide the strategy and coherence of payment products, ensuring global consistency and quality alongside the company's other product domains.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led a team of five engineers on a project, boosting revenue by approximately $800K by delivering features ahead of schedule.Developed various APIs and integration services using Go and Node.js; enhanced backend scalability and performance to support a higher number of active usersLed training sessions on clean architecture and project leadership

New York, New York, Us

Engineered multivariate regression models and synthesized results to provide insight into performance of different hedge fund strategies based on the sensitivity to key market factorsActively monitored global macroeconomic and geopolitical events and delivered weekly analyses to senior leaders showing the probable impact on risk and performanceCoauthored a research article on optimizing portfolio diversification as a function of an investor’s degree of skill and ex-ante certainty which was published in a Goldman Sachs quarterly magazine for global clientsDesigned dashboards used monthly by senior board members to monitor key metrics of client portfolios

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Presented investment recommendations to the board of directors and won approval for investments totaling $900K

Won First Place and $50K in the 2009 BYU Business Plan Competition from a pool of more than 100 entries