Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Menlo Park, California, United States
2022 — 2024
2022 — 2024
Mountain View, California, United States
❖ Architected and orchestrated the development of robust payment services and infrastructures targeting the Latin America market, catering to approximately 100 business customers and 10 million end users, with an annual Total Processed Volume (TPV) exceeding 1 billion USD.
❖ Designed and led the implementation of versatile payment integrations across multiple countries, including PayIns and PayOuts, supporting methods such as PIX in Brazil, SPEI in Mexico, and bank transfers & cash collections in Colombia.
❖ Delivered a Banking as a Service solution for gig economy business customers that streamlined KYC verification, account openings, and the issuance of prepaid credit cards, reducing gig worker onboarding time from days to minutes.
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
Mountain View, California, United States
• Served as the Technical Owner and led a team of 5 in managing earnings distributions for over 1 million drivers across the Latin America market at the globally leading ride-sharing company. Oversaw the accurate and timely disbursement of approximately 120 million USD monthly, optimizing financial operations and improving driver satisfaction.
• Initiated and directed a groundbreaking project aimed at enhancing financial inclusivity for drivers by facilitating the opening of bank accounts and issuing prepaid credit cards to 500k drivers. Collaborated extensively with multiple local banking institutions to integrate banking and digital wallet functionalities directly into the ride-sharing app, significantly improving financial accessibility and operational efficiency for drivers in the region.
2017 — 2020
• Lead pricing modernization on migrating Windows Form desktop application to micro services apps by re-engineering workflows and modularizing functionalities. Built containerized .Net Core apps that handle pricing needs at scale.
• Took charge of building enterprise applications to streamline transportation activities for drivers and rail carriers with Angular, Java Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Pioneered the proposal and implementation of automated functional tests with Selenium/WebdriverIO and Typescript. Eliminated majority of manual UI testing procedures, and adopted as company functional tests standard.
• Built Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines that pushed docker images to Artifactory and triggered release to proper environments.
• Coordinated with Product Owners on scoping and planning new features, prioritizing requests from other teams, creating technical user stories for developers. Fostered a fast-paced but collaborative team culture.
• Established technical standard and architectural guidance, coached junior developers, and conducted code reviews.
2013 — 2017
2013 — 2017
Bentonville, AR
• Managed the creation of an online cap configurator (Cap Creator) as the primary contributor, using HTML Canvas, C#, .NET MVC, JQuery, and Sass. Features included coloring panels, rendering custom embroideries, drawing curved text along the edge of visors, rotating/previewing caps, saving/loading designs, and user-friendly checkout experience. Doubled online order conversion rate.
• Took an integral role in developing and maintaining .NET based applications that strengthened order processing, vendor communication, warehouse management, and user experiences.
• Provided support for Simparel, the ERP system, with its own programming language to better fit the business needs..
Education
University of Arkansas
Master's degree
East Tennessee State University
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Shandong Normal University