Fundraising and Leadership:

∗ Raised $5M in VC funding to build and scale Pluto’s AI financial advisory product.

∗ Scaled the technology and team to support 25,000 users and over $40M in tracked assets.

∗ Conducted 100+ interviews after sourcing candidates from AngelList, recruiters, and inbound applications.

∗ Hired a team of 3 engineers and product designers.

Infrastructure and Cloud Computing:

∗ Architected and deployed 50+ K8s microservices and cron jobs alongside CI/CD with CircleCI.

∗ Managed a 30 node Kubernetes cluster with over 1TB of RAM to support a 10,000 pod workload.

∗ Built an order management system to process 12.5M trading decisions every hour using Kafka.

∗ Achieved 99.99% system uptime through comprehensive monitoring and observability.

∗ Engineered a high-performance database architecture using MongoDB and Redis, which supported ultra-high transaction volumes of 100+ million per month with average latency under 10ms.

Product Management and AI Innovation:

∗ Single-handedly streamlined the entire brokerage integration process to operational readiness in just 14 days – covering payment rails, KYC, order management, and compliance – shattering the typical 6-month timeline for a traditional team of 10.

∗ Overhauled the user onboarding experience, simplifying KYC and deposit/withdrawal processes, which increased user conversion rates by 30%.

∗ Introduced the first AI financial assistant that uses advanced NLP techniques like CoT, RAG, and ReAct to provide accurate and contextually relevant responses to user queries.

∗ Implemented measures to reduce irrelevant or inconsistent responses by 90%, significantly improving user experience and engagement.

∗ Pioneered an AI-powered UI that generates real-time charts and insights based on user prompts for a wide range of financial topics, from individual stock performance to market trends.

◦ Published minimum security baselines for 180,000+ instances including operating systems, applications, and PCI-DSS compliant devices.

◦ Designed security baselines for multiple Linux distros, NoSQL databases, NGINX, and PostgREST.

◦ Led security compliance monitoring across a 70-team organization through routine reporting and notifications.

◦ Researched DDoS attack mitigation using Palo Alto’s next-generation firewalls.

◦ Developed training materials for CI engineers on high-throughput, low-latency network environments.

◦ Awarded part of the $499,959.00 grant for ”Cyberinfrastructure Expertise on High-throughput Networks for Big Science Data Transfers” (NSF 1829698).