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Atlanta, GA, US

Palo Alto, California, US

• At Step I dove into hands-on work, taking on creation and maintenance of microservices, powering Step's industry leading mobile banking app:
• Laid the foundation for the AI-based support chat system, including authentication and third party integrations, positioning the support organization for scale and accelerating response and handling times.
• Overhauled and improved the quality of the merchant identification system resulting in improved user experience in merchant management.
• Integrated with a vendor to make it easy for users to add their Step card as a card-on-file for subscription merchants, driving increase in card usage.
• Implemented the backend for the self-serve offboarding flow with the goal of reducing customer support load and improving retention.

New York City, NY, US

• As a member of the executive team, I guided the overall technical strategy, overseeing technology infrastructure and platform capabilities, and managing operational and delivery performance to minimize time to market.
• Built and led the SRE, Security, IT, Platform, and Data Engineering teams, with the mission to enable product engineers to deliver better software safely, quickly and sustainably, and to empower the business.
• Achieved zero voluntary attrition across my teams, despite layoffs.
• Delivered product localization capabilities to enable the international expansion in 5 languages.
• Led the team responsible for building out personalization capabilities using machine learning functionality of AWS Personalize and SageMaker.
• Set the bar for performance and availability goals, consistently delivering the four nines uptime and steady improvements in latency and other performance metrics.

New York City, NY, US

• Upon joining Skillshare I immediately put out the biggest fires we had in engineering including product stability, scalability and quality issues.
• After reaching acceptable levels in those areas, I moved on to defining strategies of addressing technical debt, evolving our architecture, adopting continuous delivery, and improving security.
• Transformed our DevOps team into SRE, in line with modern standards pioneered by Google, with focus on observability and SLOs, infrastructure, deployment capabilities, development tooling, and adding security into the.
• Led the architectural evolution to support organizational growth and loosely coupled teams, including migration to React, microservice enablement, GraphQL API gateway, and event pipeline.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Joined ScribbleLive through the Visually acquisition.
• After the acquisition, I continued oversight of the Visually engineering team while also taking on management of the technical team at Appinions, an influence analytics marketing platform in ScribbleLive's portfolio.

US

At Visually I oversaw the development of a visual content marketplace platform with a team of in-house and offshore engineers.Visually is now part of ScribbleLive. Read about it here: http://tcrn.ch/23vNgSC

Radnology provides technology and business consulting services in the prepaid industry.

Created an industry leading web interface for payroll card issuance for small to medium size businesses. Acquired in 2013 by Transcard.

Created the money transfer web product with my own web framework in C++ and PHP, built the systems to run it and then managed a small team to build out features.