2024 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineer on the Learning and Onboarding team
2023 — 2024
San Francisco, California, United States
Guided a senior engineer into a Team Lead role and helped him with cross-functional efforts across 5 different engineering teams, operations, and accounting to plan and design a complete redesign of our service architecture as part of a company-wide initiative to migrate from Elixir to Kotlin.
Maintained a positive working relationship with our accounting and operations departments, representing the engineering group at offsites, changing the planning process to include their input earlier, and regularly handling code changes and data requests. We helped accounting recover $2.8 million in missing suspense transactions and achieved 100% accurate suspense reporting with our banking partner Column.
Onboarded two new senior engineers to the team after helping a team member switch to a product-focused team, prioritizing her professional goals. Provided an internal transfer with group-level opportunities around reliability and architectural improvements to prepare them for a staff-level role.
2022 — 2023
San Francisco, California, United States
Oversaw a team of 6 engineers across multiple timezones, responsible for handling infrastructure for Brex Cash, a brokerage service for startups that managed $4+ billion in customer assets and 10s of millions of dollars in daily transaction volume.
Guided my team through Brex’s handling of the SVB shutdown in March; we were able to handle a 50% increase in assets under management in one week that has since continued to grow with an increase in FDIC protection to $6 million.
Mitigated negative sentiment and velocity on the team after layoffs in November 2022, pulling in a new temporary team lead and using it to give the team more responsibility in areas they wanted to grow.
Coordinated the team’s quarterly roadmap with company priorities and other teams’ capacity, often sharing resources with other groups to optimize delivery throughput.
2022 — 2022
San Francisco, California, United States
Onboarded onto the team's codebase and began contributing to on-call rotation within 6 weeks, becoming a subject matter expert in our daily FDIC investment pipeline and reducing its outgoing processing time from 20 minutes to 5.
San Francisco, California, United States
Lead two integrations with Stripe, first as an option for user account funding, reaching >$3.5M in monthly transfers within 3 months, then with their card issuing platform as part of a partner migration from Lending Club Bank and Galileo to Stripe and Column.
Coordinated externally with partners at Braze, Branch, and Grafted Growth to implement deep linking and user tracking in our React Native app.
Full-stack development across multiple app redesigns and built out settlement pdf generation, transaction merchant enrichment, and improvements to subscription fee management.
Education
2010 — 2014
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science (BS)
2010 — 2014