Early engineering hire building backend architecture and core product development, supporting the company’s growth through multiple fundraising rounds and expansion into new financial products and distribution channels.

Design and implement major platform expansions, including:

* Entity ownership of insurance policies

* Policyholder referral programs

* Distribution partner integrations

* International customer support

Lead development of new financial products, including repurchase agreements, collaborating closely with product, legal, and operations to translate complex financial requirements into scalable, production-ready systems.

Designed extensible abstractions for application workflows (questionnaires, document requirements, attestations), enabling new products and regulatory changes to be implemented without repeated system redesigns.

Build reporting, reconciliation, and CSV data-extraction pipelines to support accounting, finance, and compliance workflows.

Play a key role in evolving the company’s technical platform, contributing to a phased migration from the original stack to a modernized architecture (Python, Next.js, React, TypeScript, AWS, Pulumi, Supabase).

Act as a go-to engineer for production issues and customer escalations, participating in on-call rotations and driving rapid incident resolution.

Support team growth by sourcing and interviewing candidates, onboarding new engineers, and helping scope and prioritize work as the engineering organization scales.

Core contributor to Anthos Config Management (ACM), developing production systems in Go to enable secure, scalable Kubernetes configuration across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

Designed and implemented major components of Policy Controller, Google’s enterprise distribution of the open-source Gatekeeper admission controller, including APIs, CLIs, and end-to-end testing infrastructure. Carried out migration of Policy Controller from an ACM feature into a standalone product, contributing to product architecture, API design, and operational readiness.

Designed and built a policy library and developer tooling to codify Kubernetes best practices, later adopted as the foundation for the upstream open-source Gatekeeper policy library.

Contributed extensively to open-source projects including Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

Developed and maintained backend APIs in Python supporting rider and driver applications for a large-scale commuter transportation platform.

Helped lead backend migration efforts, designing APIs and database models to enable future dynamic routing and scheduling capabilities.

Collaborated with product and operations to evolve backend systems in response to real-world usage and scaling needs.

Backend and frontend engineer on CrowdRise, a charitable fundraising platform, contributing to core product features and platform stability prior to its acquisition by GoFundMe.

Played a key role in integrating CrowdRise into the GoFundMe platform following the acquisition, helping deliver the GoFundMe Charity product.

Collaborated across engineering and product teams to migrate systems, data, and workflows while maintaining continuity for existing customers.