• Lead 3 platform teams (14 engineers) owning Backend Platform, Authentication & Authorization, and Fraud for a consumer fintech serving millions of users.
• Set backend technology strategy, engineering standards, and architecture governance across platform domains.
• Build AI knowledge base and AI agents to supercharge engineers and improve developer productivity.
• Operate an Evals platform that measures AI agents and skills effectiveness and drives iterative improvements.
• Partner with Product and Design leadership to translate roadmap priorities into executable technical plans and quarterly commitments.
• Collaborate with peer engineering directors on company-wide architecture, platform investments, and delivery practices.
• Own the backend hiring loop end to end — bar raising, interview design, and culture-aligned selection.
• Drive architecture reviews and mentor senior engineers on system design, tradeoffs, and operational excellence.
• Lead capacity-planning, load-testing, and hardening that absorbed 5M signups per minute (35× normal traffic) during the Mr. Beast Challenge.

• Directed 4 engineering teams (30+ engineers) delivering experimentation and digital experience platforms at enterprise scale.
• Drove platform modernization — defined target architectures, sequenced migrations, and retired legacy systems.
• Built technical and leadership pipelines through hiring, coaching, and the promotion of ICs and managers.
• Aligned platform engineering investments with product and go-to-market priorities through cross-functional partnership.
• Mentored engineers and engineering managers on distributed system design and sustainable delivery practices.

Enterprise content marketing platform; continued leadership through NewsCred's rebrand to Welcome.

• Led the migration from a monolithic Node.js/Python stack to event-driven microservices, improving deployability and team autonomy.
• Strengthened ingestion platform reliability and implemented data-lake disaster recovery for business continuity.
• Eliminated production performance bottlenecks and expanded observability with Elastic APM and Stackdriver tracing.
• Shipped serverless analytics pipelines and embeddable publishing widgets for customer-facing products.
• Designed partner-facing REST APIs conforming to JSON:API and HATEOAS standards.
• Coached engineers who progressed into tech lead and engineering manager roles.

• Designed and built high-availability services with explicit performance and cost-optimization goals.
• Partnered with DevOps and BI teams to automate operations and expand metrics and tracing coverage.
• Defined technical roadmaps with Product Management and delivered against quarterly commitments.
• Contributed to architecture reviews and technical interviews as a senior IC and hiring partner.

Hotel management platform built with Ruby on Rails and MySQL.

• Shipped production features using TDD and BDD with consistent code review and quality gates.
• Ran Agile ceremonies and delivery practices that improved release predictability across iterations.
• Established design and testing standards across internal tools and client-facing deliverables.

Student management system built with J2EE and MySQL.

Part-time remote consultant from Stockholm; built an online event management system with Ruby on Rails and MySQL.

Scrum management platform built with Ruby on Rails and MySQL.

Enterprise cargo and container management systems using J2EE, Struts, Spring, and Hibernate.