Building economic infrastructure for the internet

May 2021 – May 2025: https://stripe.com/financial-connections

May 2025 – Present: Standard Library

Working part-time as a contractor on the Mina blockchain project, primarily writing OCaml for REST/GraphQL APIs.

I transitioned from overseeing Merit’s entire engineering organization to a more hands- on coding role as the team grew from 7 to 20 engineers. I spent about half of my time providing guidance to the product and engineering teams on the architecture and design of internal and external APIs, the developer platform, and infrastructure, with a focus on the long-term technical trajectory of the entire system. I spent the rest of my time writing code to scale the codebase and platform as the team and user base grew, including leading a migration from a NoSQL database to PostgreSQL.

I hired, mentored, and managed an engineering team of 7 engineers as the company grew to 25 employees, over 100,000 users, and over $15 million raised. I represented engineering on Merit’s leadership team and built systems and processes for everything from deployment and code review to recruiting, interviewing, and performance leveling.

As the only engineer on the founding team, I built the original product and infrastructure end-to-end, including scalable GraphQL and REST Scala backends running on Kubernetes and a modern server-rendered React web app.