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Senior full-stack engineer and tech lead with 10+ years delivering scalable, cloud-native systems using Python (Django/Flask), React, and AWS. Experienced translating business requirements into technical roadmaps, leading client-facing delivery, and improving engineering quality through CI/CD, testing, and modern system design.
Pragmatic AI/ML capabilities to improve product outcomes and operational efficiency, including recommendations, anomaly detection, and LLM-powered workflows. Known for raising reliability with observability, SLO/SLI practices, and secure, least-privilege systems.
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Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Pepper Pay
May 1, 2025 - May 1, 2026Architected and delivered a multi-tenant payments platform using Python (Django) and PostgreSQL on AWS. Improved peak throughput by ~35% via query tuning, Redis caching, and async processing with SQS. Translated stakeholder requirements into technical roadmaps (milestones, risks, dependencies), aligned API contracts, evolved data models, and drove rollout planning.
Led client-facing discovery and delivery meetings and produced system design artifacts such as sequence diagrams, ADRs, and capacity plans. Drove consensus on microservices boundaries and integration patterns. Built responsive admin and customer portals with React/TypeScript integrated with Django REST endpoints, reducing manual support steps by ~25%.
Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Docker deployments on ECS, cutting deployment time from ~45 minutes to under 10 minutes. Introduced Terraform for standardized environment provisioning and reduced configuration drift by ~40%. Established observability with OpenTeleme
Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Pepper Pay (Miami, FL)
May 1, 2025 - May 1, 2026Architected and delivered a multi-tenant payments platform using Python (Django) and PostgreSQL on AWS. Improved peak throughput by ~35% via query tuning, Redis caching, and async processing with SQS. Translated stakeholder requirements into a technical roadmap (milestones, risks, dependencies) while aligning API contracts, evolving the data model, and driving rollout plans.
Led client-facing discovery and delivery meetings and produced system design artifacts (sequence diagrams, ADRs, capacity plans) to drive consensus on microservices boundaries and integration patterns. Built responsive admin and customer portals with React and TypeScript, integrating with Django REST endpoints and reducing manual support steps by ~25%.
Implemented CI/CD using GitHub Actions with Docker-based ECS deployments, reducing deployment time from ~45 minutes to under 10 minutes and enabling safe repeatable releases. Introduced Terraform for standardized environment provisioning, established observability
Senior Software Engineer at Care.com
April 1, 2024 - April 1, 2025Developed and maintained high-traffic full-stack features using Python (Flask) services and React UI components, improving page performance by ~18% through API consolidation and client-side rendering optimizations. Designed and implemented scalable REST APIs with PostgreSQL and Redis caching, reducing p95 latency by ~25% for key user journeys.
Partnered with product and stakeholders to convert business requirements into technical plans, including phased rollouts, instrumentation, and backward-compatible API changes. Improved reliability with pytest integration tests and contract testing for service boundaries, increasing CI signal quality and reducing regressions.
Implemented event-driven workflows with Kafka for asynchronous processing and auditability, improving resilience during traffic spikes. Hardened authentication and authorization using OAuth2/OIDC patterns and least-privilege access controls; contributed to OWASP-focused security reviews.
Software Engineer at RetailMeNot
June 1, 2018 - June 1, 2023Built and evolved backend services in Python (Django/Flask) supporting high-volume promotions and content workflows, backed by PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch for search use cases. Delivered customer-facing UI enhancements with React and TypeScript, collaborating with design to improve accessibility and reduce UI defects using Jest and React Testing Library coverage.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) with automated testing and quality gates to increase release frequency while reducing production incidents. Optimized cloud costs and performance on AWS via autoscaling, Redis caching, and compute right-sizing, contributing to measurable monthly spend reductions. Instrumented services with metrics, logs, and tracing using CloudWatch and distributed tracing patterns to improve incident response and capacity planning.
Software Engineer at Wells Fargo
November 1, 2015 - May 1, 2018Developed secure internal web applications and APIs using Python services and relational databases (including Oracle/PostgreSQL) supporting regulated workflows and audit requirements. Implemented automated builds and deployments with CI tooling and Docker to improve consistency across environments and reduce manual release steps.
Strengthened application security by applying OWASP best practices, improving input validation, and tightening access controls with role-based authorization. Created monitoring and alerting with platform tooling and structured logging to improve operational visibility and reduce time to detect issues.
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S), Mathematics and Computer Science at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2015Bachelor of Science (B.S), Mathematics and Computer Science at Shippensburg University
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2015Qualifications
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Software & Internet, Financial Services, Retail, Professional Services
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