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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Acquired by Hadrian

Newport Beach, California, Us

Collaborated with Product Leadership and C Suite executives and built industry disrupting platform features a year before the competition by successfully leading a team of six senior engineers to accomplish key strategic initiatives for an AI-powered offensive security organization. - Engineering Leadership and ArchitectureWorked with Product Leadership and C Suite executives to translate a 3-month roadmap into actionable and well scoped sprints for engineers to achieve #1 spot in industry.Developed platform from 0-1 and guided through product market fit culminating in a successful acquisition Scaled platform 100x amount of demand post acquisition, allowing GMV to grow 10x within 6 months and maturing platform overnight while integrating new tech stack including Next.js and Go on Kubernetes + AWS.- Application Security EngineeringSecured #1 spot in industry by implementing enterprise grade security features to build a competitive advantage for Datum Source. Architected and implemented SSO, IAM, RBAC/ABAC, and File Sharing features to create strong market differentiationContinuously assessed security to upkeep CMMC standards, allowing capture of 100s of millions of GMV.- AI EngineeringBuilt workflow to quickly iterate from Technical Design Document to checked in code in 10% of the implementation time without workflow.Designed and implemented LLM + OCR based document parser to reduce time to input quote files from 5 minutes to ~10 seconds while maintaining 10% better accuracy over human data entry at 1/10th the cost of off the shelf products.Replaced error prone regex based email parser with LLM based parser to drive usage of email based approvals while reducing false positives to 0.- Regulatory ComplianceDeveloped and implemented policies and procedures at platform level to maintain a high engineering velocity in compliance with stringent regulatory standards including ITAR, CMMC 2.0/NIST 800-172, FedRAMP Moderate/NIST 800-53

Redmond, Washington, Us

Software EngineeringMoved SmartScreen client out of Windows and into Chromium Edge, rewriting the whole codebase to use cross platform C++ in order to protect 275M+ users on every platform from phishing and malware on the web.Rewrote the Smartscreen client in Rust in order to reduce memory issues and bug rates by 93%+Ported SmartScreen to a pipeline architecture where stages could be activated, allowing the same codebase to protect browser users as well as run in kernel mode deep within Windows 10/11 to protect 1.4 billion devices while holding the same high performance and reliability standards.Engineering LeadershipLed a team of 5 engineers, providing technical direction to reliably ship features on a product with stakeholders across Edge, Office, and Windows orgsSet, measured, and achieved success KPIs on performance, reliability, and protection metrics.Worked with executives and products to curate a 6 month roadmap to ensure the team could execute efficiently without overloading.AI EngineeringApplied transfer learning to deploy client side models in order to proactively find and report threats before they came through threat intelligence pipelines.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Built and scaled high performance rendering framework to serve Microsoft.com, Xbox.com, and all other Microsoft web properties in milliseconds.Built intelligent caching service to serve targeted content to millions of users per day while saving terabytes of daily bandwidth and reducing latency from 5s to 10ms.Architected and implemented a modern deployment pipeline that deleted 100,000 lines of code while also increasing deployment frequency without manual intervention.

Assisted director of Software Engineering department in researching and building a real-time fluid solver using CUDA and OpenGL.

Designed and built a prototype for gesture input system based around a motion capture glove. Technologies included OpenGL, FMOD, and proprietary CyberGlove libraries as well as the Eigen matrix library used to implement a PCA module.

Master'S Degree, Cybersecurity

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Software Engineering