Driving technical strategy and innovation for Adobe Commerce's evolution into a modern, AI-powered SaaS platform. Passionate advocate for developer experience (DevEx) and API-first design principles across our engineering organization, establishing architectural patterns and standards that enable seamless enterprise integrations for complex customer use cases. Key focus areas include modernizing our catalog data model and infrastructure, scaling AI and machine learning features, and encouraging the engineering teams to adopt new technologies and design patterns while maintaining development velocity.Technical Environment: Domain-driven Micro-service architecture (Spring Boot, Go, Typescript, GraphQL, gRPC), cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, DynamoDB, MongoDB), real-time data processing (Snowplow, Kakfa, Elasticsearch).

- Lead engineer for Adobe Commerce's first AI-powered SaaS product: Product Recommendations. By enabling modern and intelligent personalization features within a legacy monolith platform, we elevated Adobe Commerce from a score of 0 to 5 in the Forrester Wave for Personalization.- Architected and delivered end-to-end Product Recommendations system including behavioral event collection, scalable machine learning pipelines, vector-based recommendation retrieval, and global delivery infrastructure achieving sub-200ms response times at scale.- Designed and implemented a merchant identity platform enabling seamless SaaS integration across the Adobe Commerce platform, establishing the foundation for future intelligent personalization features.

- Backend developer for the Cloud Onboarding team creating a modern application to ease customer adoption and delivery of Magento Commerce Cloud. - Developed APIs to create, configure, and provision merchant storefronts on Magento Commerce Cloud. - Delivered modular solutions in an Agile/Scrum environment. - Enforced best practice "Definition of Done" by holding code reviews and utilizing automated testing to ensure application health, integrity, and continuous integration/delivery. - Designed and implemented a release notifications module to dynamically notify Magento admin users of featured functionality in a release. - Assisted in integrating Magento Business Intelligence (MBI) Advanced Reporting into the latest Magento releases.

- Designed and developed an automated reconciliation tool for global HP finance teams. - Built, monitored, and analyzed data interfaces between applications (SAP, database connections, web services, file processing). - Automated reconciliations for over 35 financial and supply chain systems averaging over 120 million transaction reconciliations per month. - Reduced manual effort of business personnel by 85% through process automation. - Significantly increased support response times to transaction errors and fallout. - Spearheaded development efforts ensuring critical system stability during the separation of Hewlett Packard into HP, Inc. and HPE.

- Managed and directed a team of developers and contractors to deliver on-time solutions to complex problems within our Java/Struts 2/Hibernate MVC framework. - Initiated and developed a common UI framework to standardize the look and feel of internal web applications using HP UX designed themes implemented with Bootstrap 2/3 and Angular 1. - Provided quick and extensive technical support to all world-wide regions. - Interviewed, hired, and lead intern groups to deliver fun, useful, and innovative solutions to everyday problems. - Delivered readable, scalable, and concise code to meet complex user needs. - Enforced best practices by holding design and code reviews to ensure application health and integrity.

- Led development and support of a global inter-company billing and processing application to support mission critical operations. - Provided quick and extensive technical support to all world-wide regions.

- Developed and supported reporting, ETL, and analysis solutions for SAP Material Management. - Leveraged SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) OLAP cubes, Reporting Services (SSRS), and Integration Services (SSIS). - Developed and delivered projects in the Tyson Business Intelligence landscape such as SAP Business Intelligence, Solutions Management (support), and the Projects team (innovation). - Presented a solution to executive staff on minimizing cost of printer ink by utilizing recyclable materials.