Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
New York, New York, United States
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
New York, New York, United States
• Guided technical strategy and owned cloud infrastructure, developer experience, security, cost management, and observability
• Made and fostered connections that resulted in critical partnerships along with significant investment and cost savings
• Interviewed and helped source majority of the team across Engineering, Operations, and Design
• Managed QA and SRE teams as they automated tests and repetitive tasks, improved release efficiency, and reduced triage time and false positives
• Translated regulatory requirements into technical plans for US and Isle of Man launches
• Architected and implemented scalable cloud-native tech stack (AWS) from scratch with Terraform that powered Frontrunner’s decentralized betting exchange and centralized player picks products
• Vetted, integrated, and managed relationships with dozens of vendors across varied use cases; built out crucial integrations in identity, fraud, payments, sports data, and product analytics along with efficient internal processes for CI/CD, feature management, and test case tracking
• Oversaw employee onboarding, offboarding, SSO setup for tools access, and permissions matrix
2018 — 2021
Greater New York City Area
Led the team responsible for automation, system configuration, reliability, maintainability, scalability, and performance of core cloud-native platform used by all engineering and data science teams (50+ people).
• Worked closely with Security, engineering teams, and other Platform teams on reliable software design across varied use cases including infrastructure automation, configuration and software releases, and monitoring.
• Launched and led adoption of highly-available self-hosted CI/CD system on Kubernetes (GitLab).
• As the first Technical PM, managed the tiger team that established commercialization and delivery standards for the core product.
• Authored and pitched technical plan and tradeoff analysis for disaster recovery of critical services to reduce potential downtime from weeks to under 6 hours.
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
Greater New York City Area
Worked as a full stack engineer on the development team responsible for implementation, management, and monitoring of automated email pipeline and custom integrations with clients’ systems.
• Redesigned and rebuilt core ETL pipeline responsible for client business logic and distributing data to clients to improve fault tolerance, maintainability, and auditability.
• Developed process for cross-pollinating devops and product engineering team practices by becoming the first engineer to split time between infrastructure and engineering teams.
2014 — 2016
Intro to Computer Science in Java – Taught weekly recitations of 20 students, graded homeworks and exams, planned lessons, answered questions during weekly office hours
Education
University of Pennsylvania