Over fifteen years in software engineering and leadership, across healthcare, finance, and cloud infrastructure. I build teams and systems in regulated, high-stakes environments — pairing process discipline with engineering standards that don't compromise. Extensive experience with Go, Ruby, Python, Elixir, and modern front-end technologies, deployed as distributed cloud-native systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Architect, Cloud Control Plane

Designing Akamai/Linode's next-generation cloud-native control plane for public cloud offerings.

Director, Software Engineering

Spearheaded an agreement with an AI partner, leading to a successful rollout of multiple GenAI-based applications, positioning the company at the forefront of AI adoption in the industry. Identified and procured strategic partnerships to accelerate the firm's path to widespread AI adoption. Facilitated firm-wide workshops on AI and generative AI, improving literacy and driving submissions to an internal AI brainstorm competition.

Authored and owned all application-development company policies, including code standards, SDLC policies, and security policies. Collaborated directly with CISO to enhance security posture maturity, including aligning formal SDLC with WISP. Established first-ever cross-team collaborative processes involving appdev, data, and IT teams, resulting in simplified data architectures and improved business intelligence pipelines.

Led a large-scale migration from AWS ECS to Azure AKS. Migrated CI/CD processes to GitHub Actions. Spearheaded an initiative to introduce deep observability using Prometheus and Grafana. Introduced detailed and controlled FinOps practices, providing crucial insights into application and platform costs.

Engineering Manager

Maximized cost savings and performance by migrating DB clusters to AWS Aurora Serverless, reducing DB costs by 80% and improving P99 latencies. Increased productivity by enabling developers to onboard in less than an hour with Kubernetes-based CDE deployment. Implemented a 1:1 framework resulting in improved professional growth, successful performance reviews, and drastically reduced turnover. Reformed hiring and managing practices, reducing voluntary turnover from ~25% to 0% and increasing diversity in the applicant pool and team composition.

Senior Software Engineer

Planned, built, and launched a confidential document delivery platform in Ruby-on-Rails and React, handling more than 10,000 tax returns per year. Implemented comprehensive CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline. Rolled out comprehensive test coverage for Ruby applications with RSpec and JavaScript applications with Jest. Initiated a book club to encourage team-wide continuous improvement. Mentored less experienced developers, leading to all mentees' elevation to senior developer roles.

CivicPro — Technical Lead

Designed and implemented a system for ingesting bulk legislative data and parsing it using GPT-3.5-turbo, initially in Python/Django and later migrated to Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. Collaborated with NGO leadership to provide deep policy and legislative behavior analysis for elected officials. Partnered with journalists at local NPR affiliate and the Miami Herald to produce data reporting on local governments.

Bar None Systems — Senior Software Engineer

Performed SDLC audits for clients. Managed and executed emergency software project rescues. Consulted on digital infrastructure for nonprofits and political campaigns.

Kipu Systems — Senior Software Engineer

Built SaaS systems in Ruby on Rails compliant with HIPAA and HL7 standards. Developed features to facilitate secure patient data management and healthcare provider communications.

LocalSearch — Senior Software Engineer

Built contract management tools using Ruby-on-Rails and AngularJS. Used RabbitMQ for asynchronous communications in a broad microservices architecture.

CarePaths — Software Engineer

Built features in compliance with HIPAA regulations and HL7 interoperability standards. Created tooling to communicate with insurers over HL7 to facilitate billing. Designed and implemented scheduling systems to coordinate patient/clinician interactions.