Seasoned Software Engineering Executive with diverse experience in eCommerce, fintech, defense and open-source projects. Proven leader in scaling teams from a few to over 100 engineers and driving technological innovation. Throughout my career in leadership positions in both startups and corporates, I had the opportunity to drive significant technological advancements, mentor and scale engineering teams, and implement strategic solutions that have transformed business operations. As VP of Engineering, I lead internal tooling and productivity team in a successful startup. As Head of engineering at a Trust Financial Institution, I directed the technology strategy and implemented regulatory solutions. As a Technology Director at a consulting firm I directed over 100 engineers providing architecture leadership for Walmart’s SRE team and Health & Wellness (Clinics and Pharmacies), helping Walmart to save over $40M in operational costs within 3 months. In my most recent position as a Principal Cloud Architect, I worked on cloud strategy and innovation as an executive under the CTO Office. I also volunteered to lead software and joined the management team in an open-source engineering project in developing a real-time robotic system for UAP study.
Head Software Engineering | Management Team | Volunteer | Open Source, Sky360
May, 2022 - May, 20242 years
Led open source engineering team of over 20 contributers building an open-source robotic system to study UAPs. Responsible for overall software architecture and leadership.
rust | C++ | Python | nixOS | ros2 | openMCT
software architecture
world-wide community with over 2500 members
Principal Cloud Architect | Executive | Automotive, Aptiv PLC ($APTV)
Mar, 2022 - Mar, 20231 year
Spearheaded strategic cloud architecture and drove innovation initiatives as technical executive, focusing on 5-10 year future projections for compute, real-time cloud (sub-ms latency), network (including 6G and satellites), storage, and AI technologies.
cloud architecture
Azure | AWS | GCP | On-Premise
Director Technology Solutions | Consulting Firm, EPAM Systems ($EPAM)
Feb, 2020 - Feb, 20222 years
Provided SRE leadership for Walmart (saving over $40M in operational costs), supporting Walmart's Health & Wellness Architecture of their clinics and pharamcies. Directed a team of over 100 engineers, driving technology strategy, innovation, and modernization. Key responsibilities included architecture design, coaching and mentoring. EPAM Systems is a global public company with over 60,000 employees.
software architecture
Azure | On-Premise
Java | Kotlin | Go | F# | NodeJS
Head Of Engineering | FinTech, The Reserve Trust Company
Aug, 2019 - Mar, 20208 months
Led the technology strategy for a Trust Financial Institution, overseeing all engineering and IT efforts. Provided executive leadership, driving the development and implementation of regulatory technology solutions. Ensured robust IT security and managed both AWS and on-premise environments. Key responsibilities included strategic hiring and guiding the company through its startup phase.
AWS | On-Premise
Go, Rust, NodeJS
IT security
Advisor / Consultant | Coaching | Startup Consulting, Self Employed
Mar, 2017 - Jul, 20192 years 5 months
Consulting to companies needing strategy, technology, architecture and growth guidance
VP Engineering | Architect/Programmer | First Employee | eCommerce, Jet.com
Aug, 2013 - Sep, 20163 years 2 months
Core Architecture Team; Initiated many early projects; Worked on Hiring OKR; Lead Internal Tooling and Productivy Team. Led to production: Jet Insider Game; eCommerce Crawler v1; microservices Dev/CI/CD platform (v1 and v2); cloud multi-region replication and geo redundancy
cloud architecture
Azure
F# | .NET | NodeJS
Jet.com sold to walmart for $3.3B
Principal Software Engineer | Lead | Architect/Programmer | Supply Chain, icix
Dec, 2012 - Dec, 20131 year
Princiapl Software Engineer | Lead | Gaming Social Network, Hi5
Dec, 2011 - Dec, 20121 year
Principal Software Engineer | Architect/Programmer | Payroll/HR, BDB Payroll Service
Dec, 2010 - Dec, 20111 year
Chief Software Architect | Lead | Architect/Programmer | Defnese, 4D Security Solutions, Inc.
Dec, 2007 - Dec, 20092 years
Project Manager | Manager/Lead | Architect/Programmer | Defense, mPrest
Dec, 2006 - Dec, 20071 year
Senior Consultant | Architect/Programmer | Consulting Firm, Magen MTC/Advantech
Dec, 2004 - Dec, 20062 years
Senior Principal Engineer | Architect/Programmer | Consulting Firm, IBM Global Services ($IBM)
Dec, 2003 - Dec, 20041 year
Software Engineer | Architect/Programmer | Defense, Galdor Systems
Dec, 2002 - Dec, 20031 year
Business/Computers, B.Sc., Champlain College
Dec, 1998 - Dec, 2001
Ameteur Radio Operator, Federal Communications Commission
Issued on: Dec 01, 2022
AI: Dean - Denver, School of AI
Dec, 2018 - Dec, 2019
Head Software Engineering | Open Source, Sky360 non profit
May, 2022 - May, 2024
Contributor | Open Source, NixOS
Jan, 2023 - Present
Contributor | Open Source, NixPkgs
Jan, 2023 - Present