As a Senior Staff Engineer reporting directly to the CTO, I spearhead our company's backend technical strategy and stack. I lead critical high-impact initiatives, empower engineering teams, and drive departmental growth. Beyond my core responsibilities, I've authored long-term product visions that underpin new developments, propelling us upmarket and solidifying our product's position within the wellness industry.

Translating business goals into action, I've spearheaded definition and execution of strategic engineering efforts like our migration to a service-oriented architecture (Kotlin, Micronaut, gRPC). I've consistently elevated technical and product execution by refining processes, strengthening documentation, and establishing best practices. Notably, I've owned the development of mission-critical systems including our new payment and user infrastructure, alongside user-centric features like multi-factor authentication.

Recognizing cross-team bottlenecks, I championed the creation of stack-focused groups, fostering collaboration and boosting departmental productivity. To support our hyper-growth and maturing business, I've played a key role in scaling our technical department. This includes collaborating with managers to identify skill gaps, refining our technical interview process, spearheading the creation of our engineering career ladder, and providing resources to accelerate onboarding. Additionally, I actively mentor and coach engineers of all levels, as well as peers across various disciplines (project managers, designers).

As a senior staff software engineer, my role consists of leading high-impact initiatives throughout the company, setting the architectural direction, and defining long-term goals and strategic areas for investment.

Over the past four years, I've helped the Customer organization's growth through hiring, directly managing, and leveling-up individuals. I authored and architected a cloud-based customer search platform (20+ billion datapoints, K+ QPS, trillions of variations) which enabled the revamp of our first-party product and the introduction of new features for external developers.

I introduced elasticsearch at Square, then socialized the technology by running multiple workshops, holding office hours, and establishing an internal community. I also owned the development of Square's Customer APIs, introduced new patterns (search, custom fields), and participated in company-wide discussions to standardize our public APIs.

I authored and established a long-term vision and technical direction to introduce omnichannel buyers into our ecosystem, which deepened the relationship between buyers, sellers, developers, and Square. At a company level, I improved our engineering ladder and wrote guides to help engineers think more about their career advancement.

In November 2020 I joined Cash to work on the payment state machine, and internationalization.

As an advisor, I help Gotham Partner and several other startups at Grand Tech Central on product strategy, technology, and people management.