Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of full-stack experience leading architecture, system design, and cross-functional initiatives. Proven success in driving technical strategy, scaling distributed systems, mentoring teams, and delivering measurable business impact.
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Drove architecture and delivery of core platform features including Find-It AI Search, Similar Items service, and NextJS migration.
Led project team of 4 engineers; delivered frontend migration to NextJS and cloud infrastructure go-live 1 month ahead of schedule.
Architected and delivered ETL pipelines (TypeScript, Python) ingesting 25K–4M+ daily product records, enabling onboarding of 15+ partners in year one.
Designed and deployed Similar Items API leveraging weighted similarity algorithms to provide recommendations across 5M+ products, improving customer product discovery.
Built backend for AI-powered search feature integrating NLP prompts with generative image models to surface visually similar products, driving engagement and retention.
Built User Accounts service including Social Identity Provider (IdP) integration, secure PII handling, and transactional communications (4+ email scenarios), scaling to thousands of users.
Served as technical lead for several major projects, owned refinement meetings, backend architecture, and mentoring junior engineers while partnering with product leadership.
Created load-testing suite for API services benchmarking performance under high traffic and reporting to senior leadership, ensuring services remained performant at scale.
Established observability standards by delivering an internal logger package, defining log schemas, and creating SEO metrics logger—reducing incident resolution times and improving visibility.
Implemented and maintained AWS API Gateway solution using Terraform/Terragrunt, providing a unified entry point for all backend services.
Directed AWS Bot Control adoption after presenting cost analysis to leadership, cutting malicious traffic and reducing third-party API costs.
Worked with DevOps on infrastructure and DevOps strategy for Product team, leveraging Terraform/Terragrunt to deliver AWS resources and solutions aligned with business goals.
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Led development of Aerial Ad Monetization Platform supporting $4.5B in WarnerMedia ad revenue, architecting enterprise applications for critical ad-spot inventory planning and management.
Owned UI/UX strategy as React SME, introducing SOLID and functional patterns, influencing design decisions with stakeholders, and establishing best practices for scalable frontends.
Architected and delivered Digital Ad Sales Platform, a micro-frontend web app (Gatsby, React, GraphQL, WebSockets) that became the central suite of tools for ad sales execution.
Directed TypeScript migration across 9+ React/Node codebases, refactoring high-traffic services to improve maintainability, reliability, and developer productivity within one year.
Optimized Node.js backend services, reducing CPU usage and cross-service calls while cutting AWS operational costs consistently.
Managed high-volume MongoDB clusters (100GB+ data), implementing automated integrity checks and processes to maintain accuracy for mission-critical sales data.
Modernized enterprise frontends (React v15 → v16), replacing deprecated lifecycles with hooks, decoupling legacy components, upgrading Redux, and improving overall system performance.
Mentored engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions, improving team collaboration and establishing a culture of consistent design practices.
Greater Atlanta Area
Owned development of Apply Platform and Quick Apply microservices (Node.js, AWS), supporting 150K–250K+ job applications daily with high availability and scalability.
Designed and launched industry’s first One-Click-Apply via email, enabling candidates to instantly apply to 5–20 recommended jobs, significantly improving conversion and user engagement.
Led redesign and refactor of 3 mission-critical codebases (AWS SQS queue manager, backend Node.js client, and Quick Apply service), improving reliability and maintainability.
Migrated Apply Platform frontend from Angular 1.5 to React 16, introducing functional programming methodologies and GraphQL APIs to modernize the stack.
Optimized backend services and database queries, cutting DB calls during applicant submission by 50% and reducing parsing failures and outages.
Implemented and managed AWS infrastructure (Route 53, S3, load balancers, Auto Scaling Groups), ensuring scalable, fault-tolerant application delivery.
Enhanced observability with DataDog and New Relic, improving monitoring of API calls and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for production issues.
Recognized with 2019 CareerBuilder Innovation Award for impactful contributions and product innovation.
Atlanta, GA - Georgia Tech
Led instructional team of 5 (co-instructor + 4 TAs) delivering a 7-month, 30-student bootcamp on full-stack JavaScript and modern web development.
Taught fundamentals of software engineering including programming principles (OOP, functional), HTML5, CSS3, asynchronous JavaScript, Node.js, Express, and SQL database design.
Developed and delivered hands-on curriculum with lectures, whiteboarding, coding exercises, and live demos, improving student comprehension and project outcomes.
Introduced professional practices such as UI/UX design principles, Git workflows, and REST API consumption to prepare students for real-world engineering roles.
Mentored students individually, providing technical guidance and career coaching, contributing to high job placement and graduation success rates.
Atlanta, GA
Led a team of 4 developers delivering web apps and sites for national clients, supporting multi-million-dollar annual revenues.
Modernized legacy applications, including migrating Brookwood Loans app to React and leading Angular 1.x → Angular 2 migration for Loan Max/Title Max, improving maintainability and scalability.
Owned product and SEO strategy for 7+ client sites, collaborating with business stakeholders and legal teams to implement rapid UX/UI changes, often within same-day turnaround.
Improved site performance by 60% through asynchronous loaders, caching, image optimization, and API refactoring; validated improvements with Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, and WebPageTest.
Defined information architecture and delivered UX/UI assets, balancing technical and design responsibilities to accelerate project delivery.
Education
2008 — 2012
Morehouse College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2008 — 2012