Staff Software Engineer (Backend/Platform) on Chime’s Financial Platform (Payments/ACH). Led the ACH team and contributed to the money-movement ledger/journal; improved reliability, scalability, and performance, migrated services to internal microservices on the platform, and set standards for feature flags, alerting/Datadog, SLOs/SLIs, observability and runbooks—while mentoring senior engineers and partnering with Product, and Risk/Compliance.

As Principal Architect at Sequent, I led the repurposing of Sequent’s payment token engine for healthcare and identity markets. I successfully migrated a legacy monolithic payment product to a microservice architecture, enabling both on-premises and cloud-native deployments. Additionally, I spearheaded the deployment of the payment platform for banks in Japan, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

As a Lead Software Engineer at Sequent, I collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to prepare RFI and RFP responses for potential banking clients and worked with the executive team to define programs for channel partners in Asia. Additionally, I led offshore teams in Kiev, Singapore, and Chennai, coordinating efforts to ensure successful platform delivery.

Led a team to develop and maintain Global Platform (GP) compliant Service Provider (SP) and Trusted Service Manager (TSM) servers, enabling banks to provision payment cards on mobile wallets. Architected a UI framework with Ext-JS and RESTful APIs, and created JavaScript libraries for enterprise use. Developed a workflow framework based on Global Platform specifications to ensure efficient and secure transaction processing.