Profile
Passionate people-focused Engineer with a track record of effectively leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle challenging problems. Committed to driving positive change and bridging functions to achieve exceptional results. Never hesitates to make a joke and takes pride in doing quality work.
Experience
Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise Payments Network
Northwestern Mutual
New York, NY
Founding Engineer
Franchisely
New York, NY
- Implemented back-end HTTP REST APIs using Clojure and Datomic for flagship AI-backed SaaS platform for Franchise Development
- Designed and developed domain-specific HTTP REST APIs using SST and TypeScript
- Created Serverless API integrations with TypeScript for Twilio, Nylas, and DocuSign
Assistant Director, Software Engineering
Northwestern Mutual
New York, NY
- Represented the Tech function in close collaboration with Product and Design leadership to plan and co-create full-stack features for quarterly and yearly roadmaps for the financial planning platform
- Oversaw a team of Engineering leads and offered guidance for running high performing scrum teams within one of three organizational verticals (pre-plan data collection/inputs)
Lead Software Engineer
Northwestern Mutual
New York, NY
- Worked closely with Product and Design to flesh out and estimate JIRA stories, determine requirements, and plan sprints
- Liaised with Engineering and Test Engineering to ensure thorough, on-time and correct completion of sprint work
- Implemented smaller back-end related sprint tasks across different APIs in the platform
Tech Lead
Northwestern Mutual
New York, NY
- Lead a team focused on the development and enrichment of an HTTP REST API for the storage of client financial information using Java with Spring and Mongo
- Mentored and managed less experienced API engineers on the team
- Oversaw telemetry and performance monitoring of production systems using New Relic dashboards
Senior Software Engineer
Northwestern Mutual
New York, NY
- Lead the development of an HTTP REST API for storing client's financial data using Java with Spring and Mongo
- Worked with a Tech Lead, Product, and Test Engineering to prioritize feature requests
- Assisted Test Engineers in diagnosing and triaging bugs and incidents across the platform
Software Engineer, Back-end
LearnVest, Inc.
New York, NY
- Implemented various data collection features in the API using Java and MySQL
- Worked with Product and various subject matter experts to define acceptance criteria for feature requests
- Lead transition of production financial planning platform off of legacy API
Software Engineer
spotflux
Brooklyn, NY
- Worked with the senior product engineer on the user-facing application
- Triaged customer support tickets
- Handled end-to-end testing cycles across different versions of Windows
Software Engineering Co-op
Intuit
- Maintained and expanded load testing platform that assists performance engineers by utilizing a controller with a web interface to programmatically generate agents in the Amazon cloud
- Implemented feature additions including email notifications for job events, universal access control, and functional GUIs for user entity management
Developer
Northeastern University
- Maintained Shortfall, a flash game used by College of Engineering to teach students supply chain management with a competitive/cooperative game format
Developer Intern
Endeca
- Internationalized corporate website for the German Office
- Helped redesign corporate website homepage
- Tinkered with various internal applications used for project management and sales demos
Education
Northeastern University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Game Design
Sep 2008 - May 2013
GPA: 3.44/4.0