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Professional Summary

Results-driven software engineer with 20 years of experience designing and scaling the cloud-based systems that power critical platforms. A passionate expert in API-first architecture, from contract-driven development with OpenAPI to building high-volume, reliable REST services. Proven leader in mentoring engineers, owning complex technical initiatives, and delivering foundational software that enables teams to build with confidence.

Core Competencies

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Project ownership, coaching engineers, technical strategy, cross-functional team leadership.
• Cloud & Systems Architecture: AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS event-driven systems, microservices architecture, legacy system modernization, enterprise SaaS scalability.
• API & Backend Development: API-first design, OpenAPI standards, high-volume REST APIs, BDD & test automation, MongoDB.
• Frontend & Full-Stack: React, TypeScript, microfrontend architecture, frontend performance optimization.
• Process & Productivity: Agile methodologies, iterative delivery, developer productivity, technical documentation.

Professional Experience

Tech Lead Manager, FloQast (2025 - Current)

• Leading a team of 4 engineers on the Close product, balancing hands-on coding with direct mentorship and team leadership.
• Championed a “near-ideal frontend workflow” for enterprise component development, praised by a Sr. Director for enabling high-quality, scalable work by integrating Storybook, OpenAPI, and MSW.
• Modernizing a critical legacy codebase by spearheading architectural improvements, breaking anti-patterns, and educating the team on scalable solutions.
• Cultivating a resilient and collaborative team culture built on trust and shared ownership, leading by example through code reviews, architectural design, and unblocking technical challenges.
• Directing team strategy by translating complex technical initiatives into actionable steps, ensuring alignment and clarity on the “why” behind architectural decisions.

Staff Software Engineer, FloQast (2021 - 2025)

• Fostered an API-first culture through contract-driven development with OpenAPI standards, enabling teams to deliver high-quality, well-documented APIs.
• Coached product teams through iterative “small slices” methodology, reducing lead time and improving delivery efficiency on complex projects, in some cases by as much as 50%.
• Drove enterprise readiness for the flagship Close product through architectural enhancements and reliability improvements, preparing the platform for multiple enterprise clients and a 10x increase in volume.
• Designed and implemented an AWS SNS + SQS event-driven framework, providing the foundational architecture for scalable, decoupled microservices across multiple product teams.
• Scaled engineering mentorship and practices across a 200+ engineer organization, ensuring architectural cohesion and technical excellence during a period of hyper-growth.

Senior Software Engineer, FloQast (2020 - 2021)

• Led multi-team effort decomposing monolith frontend into microfrontend architecture, enabling independent deployability and resulting in a significant decrease in lead time for product delivery.
• Developed and maintained multiple RESTful APIs with high-quality OpenAPI specs, and created a reusable module for pagination, filtering, sorting, and sparse fieldsets to accelerate API development across the org.
• Implemented clean, modular, and well-tested code using JavaScript, TypeScript, and MongoDB.

Senior Software Engineer, iFit (2015 - 2020)

• Led cross-functional teams in designing and developing scalable React applications.
• Maintained legacy monolith stability during a strategic refactoring into a microservice-based architecture.
• Managed multiple tech leads and provided mentorship to junior engineers.
• Collaborated on development of multiple RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.

Software Engineer, Verizon (2009 - 2015)

• Developed scalable and reliable enterprise-level SDLC web application using PHP, jQuery, and MySQL.
• Automated system-critical web application health checks using Ruby and Watir, reducing manual testing time from over an hour to near zero and providing real-time monitoring via a custom dashboard.

Systems Analyst, T-Mobile (2005 - 2006)

• Engineered data processing pipelines using GNU coreutils (grep, awk, sed) to transform high-volume customer datasets into actionable business intelligence.
• Developed internal web applications (PHP and SQL Server) including a metrics dashboard for operational visibility.
• Designed and implemented Bash/Perl automation scripts that eliminated repetitive manual tasks.

Education

BS Computer Science, Eckerd College (2005)

Achievements

• FloQast Values Award (2024)
• MongoDB Professional Developer (2022)
• FloQast Gratitude Award (2021)
• Eckerd College Writing Excellence Award (2004)

References

Available upon request