Lead the development and management of core platform services, positioning scalable revenue growth through innovative product development. Act as the incident response lead for platform services and infrastructure, streamlining the resolution process through improved observability, logging, and monitoring. Implement strategic initiatives, such as JWT-based authentication systems and CI/CD pipeline optimizations to enhance deployment efficiency and system resilience. Propel improvements to the organization’s CI/CD pipelines, including build and deployment optimizations, test automation, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CircleCI, GitHub Actions).Key Accomplishments:▪ Directed and launched a recurring billing system within 3 months that was instrumental in securing Series C funding, increasing revenue scalability and operational efficiency $75M.▪ Expanded the company’s total addressable market 20% by introducing low code/no code solutions that allow non-technical users to create and manage payment flows.▪ Onboarded and mentored new engineers to ensure high-quality performance and communicate best practices.▪ Reduced customer dashboard search latency by 98%

Progressed and supported key developer tooling and core platform services to augment productivity and platform reliability. Steered search architecture to optimize performance and stability. Owned and maintained critical platform services—including authentication/authorization, asynchronous event processing, and common libraries—while collaborating cross-functionally with the data team to introduce DDL automation, monitoring, connection pooling, and data integrity checks. Drove CI/CD improvements and education across the company, coaching teams on best practices, tooling, and reusable workflows.Key Accomplishments:▪ Reduced deployment pipeline time by 50% through enhancements in CI/CD processes, increasing system reliability and scalability.▪ Collaborated with DevOps to create a framework for migrating services to Kubernetes, allowing 100% of platform service migration in 2 months.▪ Reduced event system latency by 50%, enabling faster money movement and webhook creation during peak times.▪ Achieved an 80% reduction in production incidents by introducing automated testing framework and metrics-based alerting.

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