I am a software engineer experienced in shipping end to end systems on AWS. I’m passionate about using technology to solve problems and sharing what I learn with others. I have experience across a broad range of domains including microservice architecture, observability, web/mobile clients, and devops practices.

2023 — 2025BankShiftPlatform Lead

2023 — 2025

Designed and shipped a self-service digital-banking platform on AWS Marketplace, enabling regional banks and credit unions to launch production cloud environments.

Architected a scalable AWS stack (EKS, Fargate, Terraform) maintaining 99.99 % availability

Developed modular microservices in TypeScript/Express, supporting seamless web, mobile, and partner SDK integrations

Implemented core financial services — Identity verification, account onboarding, and transaction aggregation.

Delivered a Next.js customer-facing portal with real-time balances, fund transfers, and searchable transaction history

Built a Next.js admin dashboard for platform configuration, role-based user management, and white-label branding

Created low-code white-label engine that reduces customization and deployment timelines from weeks to minutes

Implemented security controls and automated monitoring across the stack

2020 — 2022Capital OneLead Software Engineer

2020 — 2022

San Francisco, California

Launched an internal platform for software engineers and data scientists to manage the lifecycle of digital assets (REST APIs, Kafka streams, datasets)

Architected highly available AWS infrastructure accommodating both containerized applications and Lambda services

Designed a micro-frontend Nginx solution to unify single-page web applications from diverse teams. Delivered comprehensive solution encompassing self-service onboarding, multi-region ECS deployment, CI/CD processes, and proactive monitoring

Engineered scalable feature-toggle system, enabling remote activation of new functionality. Deployed a multi-region active-active serverless architecture using Node.js, Lambda, and DynamoDB Global Tables

Developed self-service web experience for Kafka stream provisioning and discovery. Successfully deployed over 1,500 streams while ensuring compliance with the company's data quality standards and best practices.

Spearheaded security and resiliency improvements across multiple teams, mentoring colleagues in AWS and architectural best practices. Unified and enhanced system observability by standardizing logging, monitoring, metrics, and tracing. Crafted comprehensive alert playbooks and directed disaster recovery drills to improve system resiliency

2016 — 2020Capital OneSenior Software Engineer

2016 — 2020

San Francisco, California, United States

Level Money: Contributed to the backend development of a widely-used (800k+ users) consumer budgeting app built in Clojure. Implemented features including financial transaction aggregation, budgeting tools, and personalized push notifications. Championed enhancements in security and resiliency, introducing encryption-at-rest and multi-region architecture

2014 — 2015SnapUpFounding Engineer

2014 — 2015

San Francisco

Launched an AI-powered shopping assistant app that analyzes screenshots to track product prices across platforms. Acquired by ipsy in 2015

Implemented core features such as signup, login, price tracking, notifications

Leveraged on-device machine vision with OpenCV for local preprocessing

Enhanced app performance through client analytics, A/B testing, and conversion funnel optimization

Engineered a secure AWS S3 image upload mechanism using pre-signed URLs and the AWS iOS SDK

Made contributions to the official AWS SDK GitHub repository

2011 — 2014Partender - Bar Inventory, Ordering, and Accounting in 15 MinutesCo-Founder

2011 — 2014

San Francisco Bay Area

Created a smartphone and cloud-based inventory management solution tailored for the hospitality sector

Assembled and led engineering team, overseeing the development of a Python Django API and essential client support tools

Implemented the core iOS application using Objective-C, CoreData, and RestKit

Selected for 500 Startups accelerator program and successfully secured funding

Featured on many episodes of Spike TV’s Bar Rescue with 2.2 million viewers

Customers include many large restaurant groups, the Marriott and Hilton hotel chains

Education

University of Florida

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)