Today, Senior Software Engineer working hands on with product, data, underwriting, and sales to implement tools & features to rapidly increase profitability and ROI on Retail and DTC channels. Main contributions in the past months have been centered around the creation of Lower’s Agent AI platform. One of two individual contributions to RAG Pipeline, cross-company knowledge base ingestion, Langchain/Langsmith backend layer, and NextJS-based chatbot. Key contributions include CI pipeline optimizations, multiple testing layers, and creating a locally running stack to allow rapid iteration on agent accuracy and answer quality. Experience and research in chunking, vectorization, and AI evaluations have all been critical to completing this work.

Previously, Hands on keyboard technical lead for teams of 5-10 junior-staff engineers. Provided an interface between product executives, engineering leadership (including direct reporting to CTO), designers, and mortgage domain organizational leaders (including C-Suite).

In my first months at Lower, a colleague and I re-implemented the frontend for a legacy application centered around the company’s core business of providing direct to consumer loans. We successfully launched the reimplementation within 2 months (including partial lead capturing, integrated analytics, error monitoring, automated CI, and an end to end integration test suite). Additionally, this application was built to run against the legacy backend, but was architected in such a way that only one interface had to be reimplemented (which we did via directly generated typescript APIs and swagger) to switch to a newly architected backend. I am proud of that codebase.

Pre-series A MVP and Prototype leader, developer, mentor, and manager.

Utilized GenAI (ChatGPT Teams, DallE, Atlassian Intelligence, FirefliesAI) to transition team into AI-driven development with automated documentation of meetings and development.

Assisted design and executives in finding minimum viable segment and minimum viable product options for transition into DTC revenue streams. Set up generative AI Agent based pipeline to assist in going from idea to clickable prototype in minutes to hours, not days/weeks.

Developed full stack MVPs for in-person community based applications. Set up greenfield Next<>Django monorepo for rapid full stack web app prototyping company-wide. Mentored engineers on modern full stack web development, including how to transition out of the rapid iteration as we found winning segments.

Engineering Manager of a team of 6 full stack engineers which implemented and onboarded one of the largest customers in company history. Decreasing implementation time of future customers of that scale by an order of magnitude - 168 working days per customer by last measurement. Roadmapped and planned extensions to that initiative for future customers, including a separate market segment with different business needs, via an emphasis on internal team technical improvement and mentorship. Positively impacted IC engineering day-to-day code quality via internally led education OKRs.

Full stack engineer for 2 years, specializing in React and React Native frontend, automated testing, and 3rd party interactions. Shifted to Engineering Management, with 7 direct reports focused on a top priority project. Working alongside Project Managers, Analysts, and Designers to create, prioritize, and execute roadmaps. Highly valued contributor to the organization as it scaled from 30 to over 200 engineers.

Lead percussion and general band students during indoor and outdoor rehearsals. Additionally, optional private lessons are given for interested students. Assist in summer camp management and planning. Compose and arrange warmups and pieces for the ensemble.