• CTO and lead engineer building the full technology stack for an international crypto-friendly banking institution.

• Architecting core platform systems including backend APIs, tenant APIs, and customer/admin interfaces.

• Designing infrastructure connecting traditional banking rails with digital asset systems.

• Establishing the company’s AI strategy and internal tooling to support product development and operations.

• Responsible for technical compliance, security architecture, and regulated financial infrastructure.

• Led the Growth engineering team in building unified onboarding flows and launching core revenue products, including Bitcoin IRA and Trust offerings.

• Architected the company’s component library and API specification systems, foundational infrastructure used across all product development.

• Spearheaded the “Unified Architecture” platform overhaul, delivering a complete redesign of the customer-facing UI.

• Established and led the AI engineering working group, aligning team structure and tooling to accelerate internal AI development.

• Defined and built Blink’s engineering practice, a new multi-million-dollar vertical for the company. Determined areas of focus, built and trained our remote team, and scoped, pitched, and led all dev projects.

• Architected and built custom technical solutions for a diverse set of clients, including 4 Fortune 500 companies. Projects included an award-winning cybersecurity dashboard for Unisys, the beta of a new car-sales platform and mobile app for JD Power, and real-time energy load data visualization and management software.

• Led remote, local, and outsourced engineering, research, and UX teams to design, build, manage, and deploy that work, managing up to 5 distinct teams on a given project.

• Scoped, tracked, planned sprints for, and managed client communications for all 15+ dev projects, ensuring cross-team work was coordinated and delivered on time.

• Architected, built, deployed, and managed 6 web and mobile apps integrating React/Redux, React Native, Node/Express, Rails, AWS, and external APIs.

• Led cross-disciplinary team and managed clients for our 2 largest dev projects, totalling over $2 million in revenue.

• Developed test-driven development patterns, and built core open-source NPM libraries to share tools across projects.

Co-founded PlanIt, a hub for social travel recommendations, to help travelers turn trusted recommendations into visually compelling itineraries for planning and sharing adventures.

• Integrated Rails and custom AngularJS Single-Page App, with Leaflet maps, Pusher for real-time web sockets updates, and internationalization.

• Wrote suite of language processing scrapers to convert articles into consistent data.

• Built robust test-driven backend for “completing” and localizing international place data, by triangulating sparse scraped data with Foursquare, Yelp, and Google Maps APIs.

• Conducted dozens of user research interviews across hospitality and tourist markets.