Technical Lead and Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience, specializing in real-time customer-critical data platforms, with end-to-end ownership from architecture through production and strong cross-team technical leadership.
New York, New York, United States
New York, NY
Enterprise Tech | Customer Core | Customer Demographics & Customer Preferences
Technical Lead / Backend Engineer on Customer Demographics and Preferences, core platforms managing demographic and preference data at scale across Capital One.
Key Contributions:
Customer Attribute Service (CAtS) – Designed and architected CAtS end-to-end, a self-service platform for managing customer attributes within Customer Demographics. Reduced attribute onboarding time from 6–9 months to minutes, enabling Customer Core to scale from 6 attributes toward 50+. Led platform architecture, database schema, and contribution model; led 2 teams to production onboarding of multiple attributes, establishing the foundation for future growth.
Platform Reliability – Improved Customer Preferences platform to Capital One’s highest reliability tier by automating regional failovers and optimizing RDS configurations.
Technical Leadership – Serve as Technical Lead for a team of 6 engineers, owning architecture, delivery execution, and technical quality. Conduct technical interviews and mentor engineers within and outside my organization. Serve on the Customer Core technical review council, reviewing ERDs and influencing architectural decisions.
Production Support – Serve as a Level 3 on-call engineer for both platforms, responding to high-severity incidents and supporting critical customer data workflows.
Recognition – FoCUS Tech Innovation Award (for CAtS); Enterprise Tech High-Flyer Award (Influence).
Tech Stack:
Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Python
Data Stores: Cassandra, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS/EC2, Lambda, Batch)
Distributed Data Processing: Spark, EMR, Glue
AI Tools: GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Claude Code
2023 — 2024
New York, NY
Enterprise Tech | Customer Core | Money Movement Accounts Platform (MMAP)
Backend Engineer on the Money Movement Accounts Platform, a core system managing external funding accounts for enterprise-wide payment processing and account funding.
Key Contributions:
Cloud Migration & Infrastructure Modernization – Led the first serverless migration in Customer Core, transitioning AVS (Account Verification Service), a 1000+ TPS Platinum service, from ECS/EC2 to AWS Fargate. Rebuilt the service infrastructure end-to-end, including a dedicated AWS account, IAM roles, networking, security groups, and CI/CD pipelines, executing a zero-downtime production cutover and establishing a migration pattern for future services.
Cloud Cost Optimization (ARM64 / Graviton) – Launched and led the Customer Core Serverless Cost Optimization initiative, starting with AVS. Reduced AWS Fargate costs by ~40% with no performance impact by migrating to ARM64, enabling Graviton, and applying ARM-specific optimizations. Authored a CodeGenie PR to standardize ARM migration across Fargate services, enabling org-wide cost savings.
MMAP Notification Modernization – Designed and implemented a centralized email notification system for MMAP, providing a single, reusable mechanism for customer-facing account event communications and improving reliability and consistency across workflows.
Production Support – Served as an on-call engineer, responding to high-severity incidents and supporting customers managing external funding accounts.
Tech Stack:
Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot
Data Stores: Cassandra
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS/EC2, Lambda)
New York, New York, United States
Card Tech | Commercial Card Platform (CCP)
Full-stack engineer on Capital One’s Commercial Card Platform (CCP), enabling enterprise customers to manage and pay multi-million-dollar invoices while earning rebates.
Key Contributions:
Real-Time Payfile Details – Built a real-time payfile details experience by integrating backend APIs with frontend components, improving visibility into invoice and payment data.
Partial Payfile Submission & Download – Led frontend development for partial payfile submission and download workflows, collaborating closely with design partners to deliver a seamless user experience.
Virtual Card Funding Modernization – Contributed to the development and integration of a new service to modernize payment funding flows, transitioning from external tooling to Capital One’s internal payment infrastructure.
Production Support – Served as an on-call engineer, responding to incidents and supporting critical payment workflows.
Tech Stack:
Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, TypeScript, Angular, RxJS
Data Stores: PostgreSQL
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS/EC2)
2020 — 2021
Richmond, VA
Built and launched Leva as the founding engineer, a platform connecting students with high-growth startups, leading frontend architecture and delivering a responsive, production-ready web application.
Key Contributions:
Frontend Development – Built the web application’s frontend using React, TypeScript, and React-Bootstrap, ensuring a responsive and user-friendly experience.
CI/CD Implementation – Set up continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) using npm, Prettier (for automatic formatting), and AWS Amplify, streamlining the development workflow.
Business & Marketing – Led marketing and business development efforts to onboard students and startups, driving engagement and platform adoption.
Tech Stack:
Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, React, React-Bootstrap
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS Amplify
Education
Cornell University
Bachelor of Arts - BA (Cum Laude)
Bergen Community College
Associate of Science - AS
Bergen County Technical High School - Teterboro