Staff Software Engineer / Systems Architect

Led modernization of the Acquisition Lane, including customer application and loan-origination workflows, instant loan disbursement to debit cards, and architecture discovery for critical application-completion defects.

Founded an acquisition-lane enablement team and mapped end-to-end lending funnels spanning browser applications, APIs, and mainframe systems. Architected a five-phase PII remediation deletion engine across more than 30 tables and a zero-downtime blue/green migration to DynamoDB for session management.

Designed distributed telemetry across Rails applications, MuleSoft APIs, and IBM mainframe backends. Partnered with Cybersecurity, SRE, incident command, and engineering teams to improve monitoring, tracing, and operational resilience.

Founded Geekfest@OMF and expanded an OpenTelemetry working group to more than 40 engineers. Mentored teams, supported SRE handoff, and led innovation efforts involving Rasa conversational agents and privacy-conscious local LLM tooling.

Modernized search and asynchronous messaging pipelines under live production load while reducing external service dependencies and operating footprint.

Migrated legacy Sphinx search to optimized MySQL full-text search and relational indexes. Led Ruby and Rails framework upgrades, sequencing database migrations to maintain zero downtime during platform modernization.

Improved testability and performance in a tightly coupled PHP and MySQL CRM backend by replacing ad-hoc global data access with structured, cacheable query patterns.

Hardened Ember.js automated test suites for core contact-management workflows, creating verification gates that enabled safer legacy PHP refactoring and sub-second query performance.

Conducted an on-site architectural and operational assessment for an at-risk federal software program supporting DoD MEPS.

Delivered a viability analysis and risk-mitigation recommendations directly to executive leadership.

Owned enterprise assessment workflows in a high-concurrency environment.

Led efforts focused on platform correctness and security.

Owned API design and modernization strategy for a high-volume digital marketing platform.

Led incremental legacy migration efforts to improve platform maintainability and delivery safety.

Contracted by the founder to lead the open-source transition of the Coderwall developer reputation platform.

Delivered security hardening, proprietary service extraction, infrastructure modernization, and community leadership as the top contributor to the open-source codebase.

Implemented a centralized merchant taxonomy service using Java and MySQL, reducing categorization drift across distributed product teams. Built fraud-detection queries in Vertica and explored Hadoop and Clojure for transaction anomaly scoring.

Developed high-throughput merchant analytics tools with Ruby and CouchDB for global sales operations. Redesigned technical onboarding curricula, standardized engineering practices, and shortened time-to-first-commit for more than 100 engineering hires.