Growing up in Brooklyn shaped me into a lifelong learner and a natural teacher, having spent several years educating both children and adults in various subjects.

2025 — NowRise8Senior Software Engineer

2025 — Now

2019 — 2024VMwareSoftware Engineer

2019 — 2024

New York City Metropolitan Area

Worked on VMware's Data Service Manager (DSM) integrating key VMware Cloud Foundation native data services to help empower IT organizations with enterprise-hardened & easy to manage at scale data solutions.

Worked on Tanzu’s Kubernetes Database Service developing Kubernetes operators for PostgreSQL and MySQL

Maintained Davos, an internal tool that keeps track of CVEs and security vulnerabilities and integrated it with various external scanning

services like Black Duck, Trivy, and others

Collected telemetry and insights into the use of our products to improve support by teams in the field

2018 — 2019Pivotal Software, Inc.Software Engineer

2018 — 2019

Greater New York City Area

Worked on Pivotal's Open Source component, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), to ensure feature parity on Windows.

Contributed a Windows implementation to the Open Source Envoy Proxy.

Transforming how .NET developers build and deploy software.

2018 — 2018Newtek Business Services Corp. (NASDAQ: NEWT)Full Stack Developer

2018 — 2018

Greater New York City Area

Maintained the company’s legacy PHP applications, triaged and fixed bug reports and new feature requests, got rid of security holes in some of the older parts of the code

2016 — 2018Fidelity Payment ServicesIntegration Specialist/Developer Support

2016 — 2018

Brooklyn, NY

Bridged the gap between software engineering and merchant success by guiding external developers through complex payment gateway integrations.

Internal Tooling & Engineering: Developed and maintained a custom internal web application used by the integration department to catalog, map, and track compatibility across various POS systems, e-commerce shopping carts, and payment gateways.

Developer Experience (DX): Served as the primary technical liaison for external development teams, providing hands-on code-level support, API troubleshooting, and architectural guidance for REST API payment integrations.

Solutions Architecture: Consulted with merchants to analyze their existing tech stacks, researching and architecting custom solutions to seamlessly integrate their infrastructure with Fidelity’s hardware and software ecosystem.

Deployment & Operations: Managed the technical deployment and configuration of new enterprise accounts, ensuring smooth transaction processing from day one.

Education

Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah

Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitz

Rabbinic Ordination

Flatiron School

Experience+

Education

Rabbinic Ordination

Full-Stack Web Development