MedTrainer provides an all-in-one Health Care Compliance SaaS product. The product enables our customers to navigate the highly variable, highly complex healthcare credentialing process while also helping them satisfy their compliance requirements around learning, policy management, contract management, and incidence reports.As the CTO, I am responsible for scaling the Product Delivery department (product and engineering), developing the product strategy in conjunction with the rest of the executive team, driving the architectural strategy, and executing on the delivery of product releases. During my tenor at MedTrainer, the company successfully completed a $43 million Series B investment led by Vista Equity Partners.

Disco is a cloud-native legal technology SaaS startup. The platform provides high-speed ingests of large data sets, canonicalizes and indexes documents for highly responsive search, and analyzes the documents to determine relationships within the corpus. The system incorporates ML algorithms to provide supervised learning recommendations, topic clustering analysis, and to determine similar documents. During my tenure, the company completed two large equity raises including a $60 million financing at a $785 million valuation in 2020, and subsequently went public in 2021.• Recruiting a distributed team of top Engineering, Product, and Design talent to grow the product development team from 30 to 130 while the company grew to over 300 employees overall.• Responsible for driving collaboration between Product, Design, and Engineering to build a detailed Domain Model that serves as the cornerstone of our architectural designs.• Relentlessly reprioritizing and driving the architectural backlogs to identify and invest in the technical improvements that will have the most significant impact on the business objectives.• Defining, and constantly refining, a thoughtful and efficient product development lifecycle.• Implementing an MVP-based development approach to drive velocity and validated learning while limiting waste.• Managing and building cross-functional, two-pizza teams that are properly aligned with product strategy and have the autonomy and ownership to drive feature sets from concept to completion.• Creating engineering budgeting and forecasting models to provide executive-level visibility while also providing insights into the architectural changes that will have the biggest impact on margins.• Implementing the minimum amount of process necessary to drive quality and velocity under constantly changing circumstances.• Collaborating with Sales, Customers Service, Product, and Engineering to deliver the highest priority business outcomes.

Building and leading a team of software development engineers creating a multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) security and identity platform for IoT solutions. Responsible for putting in place the hiring practices, system design, project management, and executive reporting necessary to build a fast-paced, internally motivated engineering organization that delivers.Put in place a software development life cycle to help clarify and define solutions with the product and marketing teams, develop computational models and task breakdowns with the engineering team, and goals reporting and tracking with the executive staff and board members. Actively participated in and helped navigate services through the entire software development life cycle.Hands-on, management role also included responsibility for architecting and implementing a cloud native solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) comprised of a containerized, micro-services backend written in Go, a modern front-end portal using React/Redux, a streaming analytics service and an embedded, micro-controller SDK written in C. I also designed and help develop a fully-automated CI/CD pipeline to support both developer productivity and system stability.

As a Solutions Architect I worked with large customers to help them successfully migrate and build highly available, secure and scalable cloud enabled services on Amazon Web Services (AWS). My focus was on containerized services that leverage AWS's compute, big data analytics and CI/CD capabilities. Prior to working as a Solutions Architect I was part of Amazon Game Services building large scale, cloud enabled mobile applications and analytics services. I was responsible for the backend and analytics pipeline for the Software as a Service gaming applications.I was also part of the company's internal game engine team where I led a team of engineers responsible for the application's UI framework. As part of being a hands-on leader, I implemented the agile project management methodologies used throughout the software development lifecycle of the features. I led the specification development, project planning, and goal tracking/reporting for a team comprised of both internal and outsourced engineers.

I joined the Zynga San Diego founding team of 10 members and over the next two years grew the team to 60+ developers spread across several locations. I leveraged agile project management methodologies to manage a rapid cadence of feature development. My primary responsibility was to ensure that cross-functional teams of engineers, designers and artists successfully navigated the software development life cycle for both adding features to existing products and new product development.While maintaining a hands-on role, I was active in all hiring decisions, mentoring of new engineers and putting in place team culture initiatives. I instituted developer led training sessions to help foster communication and build team cohesion. Additionally, I acted as the point person for coordinating across teams in San Diego, San Francisco, and India.The two products I was responsible for, "Cafe World" and "Bubble Safari" were both gaming software as a service offerings. Cafe World experienced its most successful revenue generating quarters after it was transferred to the San Diego Studio and Bubble Safari reached over seven million Daily Average Users (DAU).

Engine programmer working in C++ initially on the development of an in-house engine and later on Unreal Engine 3. Responsibilities also included C# tools development and the development/maintenance of a continuous integration build system. Worked on shipped game "Transformers 3: Dark of Moon" console title on PS3 and Xbox 360.