Head of Engineering - IC Heavy - Collective Artists Network
(2024-09 - 2026-04)
Data Platform Infrastructure — Scale & Analytics Automation
- Data Platform Infrastructure & AI: Designed and scaled an enterprise-grade lakehouse platform (Dagster, Apache Iceberg, StarRocks) processing 5+ TB (1.5M+ complex objects) across multiple distributed social platforms. Built a high-velocity analytics API layer and integrated LLM orchestration workflows to automate cross-platform processing with sub-second query latency.
- Cloud Cost Optimization: Architected an efficient production cloud footprint on AWS, cutting S3 storage costs by 50% via Glue Iceberg optimizations (binpack compaction, aggressive snapshot cleanup). Eliminated cross-AZ and NAT Gateway overhead fees by consolidating architectural layers into a optimized single-AZ footprint with a custom-engineered EC2 NAT instance.
- Engineering Velocity & Team Scaling: Streamlined operations to support multiple engineering teams. Rolled out Jenkins CI/CD across all core projects, migrated legacy JavaScript to TypeScript to enforce coding standards, and designed a custom Jira applicant tracking workflow to scale the hiring pipeline.
- Security & Operational Audits: Restructured AWS architecture using AWS Organizations and IAM Identity Center for centralized, secure access control. Audited SaaS tool sprawl and standardized on open-source alternatives to reduce vendor lock-in and recurring licensing costs.
Technical Lead - Redblock.ai (Pivoted from Quolum)
(2023-10 - 2024-09)
Security Vulnerability Remediation Infrastructure Using LLMs
- Multi-AI Agent Infrastructure: Designed and built a high-availability multi-agent orchestration framework featuring a central coordinator for complex task delegation, web navigation, and screen parsing. Conducted rigorous benchmarking across OpenAI and open-source vision models to optimize systems for latency, accuracy, and operational cost.
- Security Remediation with LLMs: Applied LLMs for automatic detection and remediation of security vulnerabilities in web applications, with patent approval pending. Reduced turnaround time by 80% for customers.
- Data Pipeline Architecture: Built a data pipeline for ingestion, transformation, and generation of actionable insights from structured data using AWS DynamoDB and Kinesis Streams.
Technical Lead | Founding Engineer - Quolum
(2020-08 - 2023-10)
Spend Management & Core Payment Infrastructure
- Built the Core Platform: Led development of a fintech SaaS Spend Management Platform with a custom credit card solution. Handled complex financial transactions and optimized cloud deployment with modular CloudFormation stacks aligned with microservices.
- Reworked Integration Architecture: Moved from Lambda to EC2-based architecture for processing 100+ integrations, cutting failure rates by 70% and improving system resilience. Automated data pipelines for large-scale workflows.
- High-Concurrency Payments: Led the engineering of an end-to-end payment processing pipeline using AWS Kinesis, SQS, SNS, Elasticsearch, and Redis. Maintained 99.99% uptime while securely processing transactions worth $25M including real-time purchases and refunds.
- Zero-Downtime Migration: Executed a complex database migration for core production PostgreSQL RDS instances from version 11.2 to 16.1 with minimal downtime, leveraging real-time stream processing pipelines via DynamoDB streams and Kinesis to ensure zero data loss.
Software Engineer II - Embibe
(2019-05 - 2020-08)
Content Management System (CMS) Infrastructure
- Core CMS Components: Built key components for Embibe's CMS, handling large-scale ingestion and management of educational resources.
- Content Workflow System: Built a workflow system for content approval with quality checks and structured review processes before publication.
Software Engineer II - Akamai Technologies
(2015-08 - 2019-05)
Momentum Order Management System (OMS)
- Backend & Frontend Development: Worked on the Momentum OMS across Salesforce Classic, Lightning, and Mobile, optimizing high-concurrency tooling for global Sales and Marketing infrastructure.
- Tech Stack Modernization: Upgraded the Ruby on Rails version, refactored key parts of the legacy distributed codebase, resulting in a 40% reduction in technical debt and simpler feature development going forward.
- Document Generation: Built custom asynchronous document generation tools (PDF, DOC, Excel) for MSAs and sales documents, cutting server-side document processing time by 60%.
Associate Application Developer - Oracle Financial Services Software
(2014-08 - 2015-08)
Liquidity Management Infrastructure Product
- Developed and maintained secure REST APIs for core real-time data integration modules across financial liquidity frameworks.
