Work

Citrine

Head of Engineering

2024 - Present

Building the engineering organization from scratch at Citrine, a community-first fintech platform launching a Mastercard World Elite consumer credit product.

Scaled the engineering team across mobile, frontend, backend, and data. Architected our platform integrating Plaid (banking), Stripe (payments), Experian (credit), and Highnote (card issuer). Shipped iOS and web applications on fintech-compliant cloud infrastructure.

Technologies: TypeScript, React Native, React, Node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Stripe, Plaid

Torch

Engineering Lead

2019 - 2024

Scaled Torch from Y Combinator seed stage through a $40M Series C (20+ engineers), powering 1.7M+ minutes of coaching across 37K annual sessions.

Led cross-functional engineering pods and architected our microservices infrastructure for scheduling, integrations, and video conferencing. Spearheaded our design system and monorepo, improving developer efficiency and velocity. Partnered with leadership on technical strategy through three funding rounds.

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, AWS, PostgreSQL, Microservices, Design Systems

Delaware North

System Reliability Engineer

2017 - 2019

Built enterprise data infrastructure powering business intelligence across hundreds of business units at this global hospitality company (sports, gaming, hotels, parks, airports).

Developed data warehouse and ETL pipelines ensuring quality and reliability. Led development of our visualization platform for interactive dashboards and reports. Contributed to our migration from legacy systems to Apache Airflow.

Technologies: Python, Apache Airflow, SQL, MongoDB, React, Data Warehousing

Stink Studios

Senior Developer

2014 - 2017

Built high-performance web and mobile applications for major brands at one of the world’s most creative digital agencies.

Delivered pixel-perfect implementations with a focus on performance optimization and exceptional user experiences. Collaborated with award-winning design teams to ship production-ready code for high-traffic consumer digital experiences.

Notable Projects:

  • Google National Parks - Immersive 360° experience (FWA Site of Month)
  • Chevy Camaro Six - 3D mobile and web brand experience
  • Target Bullseye’s Playground - First VR experience for Google’s Project Tango
  • Mad Men Experience - Interactive archive (FWA Site of Day)
  • Kraft Mac & Cheese - Brand website
  • Brickell City Centre - Property development CMS

Technologies: React, Python, AWS, Google Cloud, WebGL, Unity