I lead and manage a group of SREs consisting of US-based associates and globally distributed contractors, supporting Capital One's Commercial Card Platform. As a hands-on technical leader and people manager, I oversee the team's roadmap, guide technical direction, and mentor each associate's professional development through individualized plans.

• Instituted formal SRE engagement model with supported groups, eliminating ad-hoc requests and improving operational visibility, planning, and team incident response capabilities.
• Designed and implemented a realtime rules-based traffic shaping solution for virtual card number generation across multiple providers.
• Spearheaded the multi-year AWS cost optimization initiative for our 1300-person business tower, built tooling to identify cost savings opportunities across hundreds of AWS accounts.
• Developed a self-service tool enabling engineers to rapidly scale up downsized, non-production AWS resources after hours, facilitating off-hours work while maintaining cost optimization. This solution has been adopted across multiple lines of business.
• Oversee the operation and security posture of the Commercial Card Platform's data pipeline infrastructure.
• Ensure the Commercial Card Platform's ongoing compliance with security and regulatory requirements by actively monitoring and implementing updates based on enterprise bulletins.

Managed all aspects of Lola Inc.'s AWS infrastructure, including a dedicated CDE account. My work often focused on Kubernetes, the foundation of the company's technology stack.

• Operated and maintained existing clusters built with kops.
• Designed and built out new clusters using EKS, Terraform.
• Developed and managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins on k8s, automating build, test, and deployment processes.
• Participated in PCI audits, ensuring compliance with security standards.
• Led operational shutdown and IP asset transfer during startup acquisition by Capital One, ensuring a seamless, compliant migration.

I founded and develop several SaaS applications focused on analytic insights for team communication. I also consult on full stack development and data engineering solutions.

As Director of Engineering at Zoomi, I led a 20-person engineering organization encompassing product engineering, DevOps, and SQA. I partnered with research, product, and senior leadership to define and deliver on the company's engineering roadmap and product delivery commitments. My contributions included:

• Established company-wide best practices for code review, deployment, and access control to improve code quality, deployment reliability, and security posture.
• Collaborated with DevOps and SQA to design and implement robust production deployment, testing, and rollback procedures, minimizing deployment risk and ensuring service stability.
• Partnered with the head of Advanced Research to create a standard library that effectively decoupled algorithmic implementations from product code, enhancing code maintainability and flexibility.
• Formalized incident response and escalation procedures to ensure efficient handling of production issues and minimize service disruptions.
• Mandated operational playbooks and application telemetry as prerequisites for new service deployments, improving operational visibility and maintainability.
• Optimized compute platforms scaling, reducing AWS spend by 40%

As Lead Software Engineer at Zoomi, I hired and led the engineering team responsible for the company's core data ingestion pipeline and customer-facing APIs.

• Partnered with the VP of Engineering to architect and deliver a complete overhaul of the data pipeline, analytics datastores, and APIs over nine months, positioning the company for future growth.
• Designed and implemented a novel caching solution during a critical growth period, ensuring continued access to aggregated analytic data for Zoomi's largest customers.
• Promoted to Director of Engineering following the successful completion of the platform modernization initiative.