I'm an Executive, Senior Engineer, and Architect with 14+ years experience architecting, building, maintaining, and scaling AWS-based enterprise SaaS from $0 - $15M revenue, 0 - 80 customers (B2B), 18 - 350 team members, and annual transaction volumes of $0 - $1B+. Expert in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, managing complex requirements, and leading fully remote, distributed teams.
Find more about me, my interests, and my work at the links below:
Principal Engineer (Vellum Insurance)
April 2023 - Present
Key responsibilities most specific to my role include:
- Building the first iteration of the Vellum system (zero to one)
- Establishment of foundational technology and processes (e.g, always IaC, code review, frameworks, etc)
- Facilitation of product development from ideation through development
- Continuously balancing urgency with importance, quality, and speed of delivery
- Evaluating and making build vs. buy decisions
- Recruiting top-tier engineering talent to grow the team as necessary
- Providing mentorship and training for the engineering team and related processes
Co-Founder & CTO (Hedgefish)
October 2021 - Present
- Source, define, negotiate, and fulfill software engineering, project management, and DevOps contracts
- Provide expert consulting services for AWS, Python, and Insuretechs
- Developer and consultant for The Closed Round, GGOB, Aumatio, Trademack, MORC, and more
- Design, develop, and launch micro SaaS applications (TBA)
VP of Engineering, Architecture (BriteCore)
September 2018 - February 2022 (3 years, 6 months)
- Catalyzed and led a long-term, company-wide initiative to reimagine the limits of BriteCore by developing, proposing, and proving a concept which led to raising $80M and opened previously unattainable business
- Scaled and led a globally distributed agile engineering team from 30 to 120 members over 2 years
- Closely engaged with InfoSec to achieve compliance initiatives such as SOC 2 Type 1 certification
- Achieved AWS Advanced Technology Partner (Financial Services) status with help of other leaders
- Created/promoted a successful incentive program for AWS certifications—more than 50 obtained
- Directly reported to CEO as an executive with quarterly board-level reporting responsibilities
- Directed $2M+ on/offshore data architecture, analytics, BI, and system observability contract
- Architected/contributed to replacement of batch report generation architecture—used Batch, StepFunctions, CloudFormation, SQS, etc.; 90% cost reduction, improved reliability/observability
- Designed/oversaw replacement of nightly batch processing orchestration responsible for critical processing on millions of policies annually—used StepFunctions, SQS CloudFormation, Batch, etc.
- Migrated 90%+ of AWS access to Identity Center with goal of removing all IAM users
- Partnered with Sales & Marketing to evaluate and win 20+ new customers and millions of ARR
- Presented engineering updates to up to 300 end users at annual conference—5x during tenure
Director of Architecture & Engineering (BriteCore)
January 2017 - September 2018 (1 year, 9 months)
- Collaborated with Engineering and Product leaders to reimagine and plan BriteCore's future
- Established and implemented engineering best practices—e.g., infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Led BriteCore's initial API-only client to a successful launch via hands-on guidance
- Primary tech contact for key relationships—e.g., high-profile/prospective clients and partners
- Directed/contributed to launch of new AuthN module—handed off to promoted team member
- Mentored, managed, promoted, and evaluated engineering leaders and managers
- Collaborated with HR to administrate Okta, Github, Google Workspace, and more
Software Engineer I - Principal Software Engineer (BriteCore)
March 2010 - January 2017 (6 years, 11 months)
- Launched BriteCore to production with first customers in early 2011—80 more throughout tenure
- Built an automatically tested commission payment system which processes $10M+/month
- Solely developed/managed comprehensive automated data conversion from 20+ legacy systems
- Rearchitected and refactored accounting module—processes $1B+ annually, in use 11+ years
- Added 1000+ automated tests to improve software stability
- Rebuilt payment processor integration framework—in use 11+ years, processes $500M+ annually
- Architected/built/deployed customer-configurable, fine-grained AuthZ module—10+ year lifespan
- Co-developed and implemented code review, testing, and QA principals—in use for 10+ years
- Built, managed, mentored, and evaluated teams of individual contributors
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