Lead Software Engineer - Digital Remedy / Compulse - New Orleans, LA
(2024-05 - 2026-06)
- Embedded AI tooling (Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) into engineering workflows—accelerating development across Python, TypeScript, and Java projects; improved technical design, documentation, code review quality, and unit/integration testing to reduce mean time to resolution for production incidents.
- Led full-stack engineering for an AdTech data ingestion and analytics platform: delivered API-driven consoles surfacing campaign performance insights for 4,000+ advertisers across 90+ agencies, Built components for a Vue customer facing front-end.
- Reduced query complexity and improved maintainability by migrating business logic from Java into templated query solutions, cutting average query-related bug resolution time and lowering operational burden for production support.
- Extended data-matching capability by implementing IPv6 capture alongside IPv4 support; server-side captures 3.25M+ events daily, improving DSP match rates and data quality for downstream analytics.
- Architected and delivered a TypeScript API layer, transitioning from Java servers to a TypeScript/Databricks stack and improving system throughput and maintainability.
- Built Apache Airflow DAGs to automate ETL pipelines and performed detailed data analysis to troubleshoot and reduce manual intervention in daily operations.
- Partnered with Cybersecurity to audit and remediate vulnerabilities and led a major-version migration; worked with DevOps to expand CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), improve token handling and secure configuration management, and introduce containerization and orchestration practices (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Introduced BrowserStack AI-based automated testing suites and test cases to increase test coverage, reduce regression cycle time, and improve release reliability.
- Owned production support and incident response processes; responsible for hiring, onboarding, coaching, and mentoring engineering team members.
Consultant / Senior Software Engineer - Aman Technologies - New Orleans, LA
(2021-03 - 2024-04)
- Consulted on backend projects for Digital Remedy's AdTech platform, contributing to API design, data pipeline improvements and cloud-based applications development. Managed the offshore consulting team.
- Transitioned from a consulting to full-time employee in May 2024.
Staff Software Engineer / Engineering Manager - Fluidra Inc. (Zodiac Pool) - Carlsbad, CA
(2019-07 - 2021-02)
- Led delivery of an IoT cloud platform for command-and-control of connected pool devices (heat pumps, robots, automation systems) over public cloud infrastructure for consumer and commercial markets; accountable for architecture, delivery, and operational support models and cloud/edge integrations.
- Led enterprise cloud-based applications development of distributed systems microservices, AWS IoT Core systems engineering, and systems integration for next-generation IoT devices alongside legacy firmware platform support. Led the effort to resolve scalability issues on peak traffic days.
- Collaborated with Firmware/Embedded, iOS, and Android teams to define and implement cloud APIs for real-time device control, telemetry, and customer experience; supported production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Responsible for hiring, coaching, and mentoring team members across a distributed engineering organization.
Technical Lead / Consultant - WhiteHedge Technologies / Aman Technologies - New York, NY
(2013-03 - 2019-06)
- Managed a 10+ engineer team building WeatherFX, a geo-targeted advertising platform computing normalized weather indicators for 250,000+ locations across 20+ countries; accountable for architecture, delivery, and team execution.
- Drove system behavior to respond dynamically to real-time weather changes, enabling advertisers to automate campaign delivery based on local weather triggers and improving campaign responsiveness.
- Integrated with major advertising platforms including Google DFP, AppNexus, Facebook, Twitter, The Trade Desk using ISO-compliant web services.
- Managed the Agile software development lifecycle: sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily standups, coding standards, code reviews, engineering design reviews, troubleshooting, UAT and release management.
- Collaborated with product managers and business stakeholders to gather and refine customer requirements and shape product strategy; responsible for building and mentoring the Java development team.
Deputy General Manager (Principal Consultant) - HCL Technologies - Bangalore, India
(2010-09 - 2012-12)
- Client: Tullett Prebon Holdings Corporation, London, UK — managed customer-focused project delivery for the Tradeblade electronic trading platform from offshore across multiple projects and client engagements.
- Oversaw engineering practices with a focus on technical standards, accountability, and delivery; coordinated cross-functional teams to meet project milestones and quality expectations.
- Acted as a principal consultant to align delivery management with client requirements and to improve engineering processes and release predictability.
Assistant Vice President, Software Engineering - Tullett Prebon Holdings Corp - New York, NY
(2000-10 - 2010-08)
- Java · J2EE · EJB · Oracle · Swing MVC · JIDE
- Core team architect and lead engineer for Tradeblade, an enterprise electronic/hybrid/voice trading platform covering a wide range of markets; integrated internal systems with 3rd-party clearing houses.
- Increased net income for Swaps business by 25% (~$2M) and added $100B in trading volumes by extending the platform to UK and European markets, making Tradeblade a global system.
- Managed technical projects, software systems, and full project lifecycle under CMMI quality standards: tracked quality metrics, SQA, root-cause analysis, MTTD, release prediction, and productivity measurement.
- Played a key role in evaluation and selection of offshore CMMI Level 5 partners; managed requirements gathering, HLDs/LLDs, requirements and code reviews, and led the outsourcing pilot project.
- Designed and developed customer-facing trading UIs and GUI prototypes; bridged a legacy voice trading system to replicate CRT terminal user interfaces on broker desktops.
Lead Software Engineer - Liberty Brokerage - New York, NY
(1999-10 - 2000-09)
- Designed and developed backend software for electronic trading systems for US Treasuries (Bills, Bonds, WI, Repo) in C++/STL.
- Conducted testing and performance tuning of trading servers and order database to ensure high-volume order traffic handling.
- Developed tools and scripts to analyze logs for tracking orders and debugging production issues.
Consultant - KPMG (BearingPoint) - New York, NY
(1999-06 - 1999-09)
- Performed object-oriented design, systems analysis, architecture and software development for the Doubleday Book Club (Bertelsmann) online enrollment platform.
- Delivered object-oriented programming, debugging, and integration work to support production readiness and reliable service delivery.
Lead Software Engineer - Liberty Brokerage - New York, NY
(1998-10 - 1999-06)
- Design and develop software for electronic trading systems backend for US Treasuries (Bills, Bonds, WI, Repo) in C++/STL.
- Conducted testing and performance tuning of trading servers and order database to ensure high-volume order traffic handling.
- Tool development and scripting to analyze logs for tracking orders and debugging.
