Full-stack tech lead in fintech with end-to-end ownership from concept to scaled production systems. I ship revenue-driving products and modernize architecture, performance, and developer experience across teams.
2022 — Now
New York, New York, United States
Full-Stack Tech lead with end-to-end ownership across product, platform, and org-wide engineering standards. Built and scaled customer-facing fintech products while modernizing architecture and accelerating delivery through tooling, performance, and developer experience improvements.
Tech Lead for Alloy’s Embedded Finance product suite; partnered across a 50-engineer org to ship from concept to launch, driving $10M+ net new ARR in year one.
Served as EMEA Tech Lead to accelerate European expansion; partnered with Sales/Product/Support and introduced ROI prioritization models (NPV/IRR) to focus roadmap on higher-payback, lower-maintenance work.
Set frontend direction by building a ~100k LoC reference implementation for next-gen architecture, consolidating multiple legacy React/Django entry points into a unified React SPA; led RFC process, incorporated feedback, secured exec buy-in, and landed new org-wide standards (types, routing, linting, testing).
Rebuilt internal DB access layer to remove deprecated patterns/dependencies and improve query efficiency, observability, and documentation; delivered ~15% p95 API latency improvement with zero rollout incidents.
Led the Frontend Guild (cross-team standards + quality); drove major upgrades/migrations (React, Webpack→Vite, Jest→Vitest) cutting CI time 90% (24m→2.5m); achieved 100% Storybook coverage for 50+ design-system components, increasing adoption 40%.
Reduced onboarding time 90% (7h→30m) by building an internal developer CLI as part of the Engineering Enablement team; standardized org-wide linting/formatting/build tooling, reducing PR review time 25%.
TypeScript champion: rewrote 5+ internal libraries to 100% strict type-safety and 90% unit test coverage; raised org TypeScript maturity via training, mentoring, and best-practice guidance.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Mechanical X Advantage (MXA) is a 12-person, angel-funded startup that was focused on building a new cloud technology platform for data centers and high-rise real estate. MXAs software product specialized in automating the management and analytics of commercial HVAC and other high-cost industrial equipment.
Strategized on growth initiatives with the company’s exec team, and presented recommendations, as well as monthly financial reports, to the board of directors and outside investors
Spearheaded the adoption of multiple new business software suites, including accounting, reporting, HR, remote operations, and team collaboration software, resulting in a 75% decrease in time investment for monthly close operations
Effectively standardized companywide reporting packages and financial planning processes to project revenue, expenses, and cashflow on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Director of Technology and lead software engineer for MXA’s proprietary cloud software platform.
Established the development lifecycle for MXA’s software platform by building product roadmaps, setting engineering priorities, driving feature sprints, and designing UI and UX interactions
Led full stack development, creating multiple web applications in TypeScript, using React, Node.js, Postgres and GraphQL
Analyzed key metrics used to forecast adoption and growth, and conducted customer interviews on a weekly/monthly basis, integrating the findings into future development sprints to further the software adoption and product value proposition
2019 — 2020
New York, New York
Greater Philadelphia Area
Patriot Financial is a $1B+ AUM Private Equity firm focused on the FIG vertical; specifically regional and community banks, and the technology that powers them.
Led analysis for the firm’s first three investments in the FinTech vertical, including technical due diligence, valuation modelling, and term sheet structuring, ultimately resulting in three portfolio investments totaling over $50MM
Built financial models to evaluate new growth equity deals and analyze the firm’s 30+ portfolio companies on a quarterly basis
Researched 50+ publicly traded FIG companies and formulated long/short investment theses for the creation and development of the firm’s first actively managed hedge fund vehicle, including utilizing derivatives to create arbitrage return strategies
Served as board representation for portfolio companies
Education
2009 — 2014
Drexel University
Bachelor's of Science
2009 — 2014