Experience · Career
A decade building and leading engineering across healthcare, fintech & AI.
From hands-on full-stack engineering to director-level leadership — building teams, modernizing platforms, and shipping production systems across web, cloud, data, and applied ML.
Roles
Increasing scope and leverage, not a list of employers. Four themes recur.
Platform leadershipRegulated deliveryModernizationHands-on execution
Hims & Hers via ImagineX
Digital health + platform · 5 engineers
Engineering Manager / Tech Lead
- Lead frontend and platform engineering for digital health products and internal platform initiatives.
- Manage engineering execution across AI-assisted development teams delivering enterprise software in a regulated healthcare environment.
- Apply GenAI and agentic development workflows to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality and team velocity.
Platform leadershipRegulated deliveryHands-on execution
Feb 2025 — present
Remote
Remote
Independent
Part-time advisory engagements
Defense · Counter-UAS
Fractional CTO · Security Space Ops
- Set technology strategy and led four teams: full-stack software, machine learning, adversarial security, and electrical engineering.
- Directed counter-drone architecture, airspace monitoring, RF and acoustic detection, threat and abuse detection, ML systems, and operator tools.
- Met prospective public-sector and institutional customers in Colombia, translating operational needs into product direction and commercial opportunity.
- Jailbroke Google Gemma 4 31B in an authorized development environment, unlocking deeper experimentation and platform R&D.
Platform leadershipHands-on execution
2023 — 2026
Fidelity Investments
Director
100+ applications · 4 senior engineers
Director / Full-Stack Engineering
- Led the Technical Life Management initiative across 100+ applications, improving long-range planning and prioritization.
- Managed and mentored four senior engineers, supporting execution quality and growth.
- Designed and operated Snowflake data pipelines feeding weekly LiveRamp uploads — improving data integrity and audience quality, and contributing to a 2–5% lift in custom conversion on a top year-over-year ad-spend initiative.
Platform leadershipModernizationHands-on execution
2023 — 2025
Remote
Remote
Hudson MX
Media-buying platform · 3 teams · 15 to 20 engineers
Director of Software Engineering
- Led engineering for a large-scale media-buying platform built with Java Spring Boot and Angular.
- Guided distributed teams through a high-growth phase, improving execution, delivery, and org maturity.
- Partnered across product and engineering to scale platform capabilities and operational reliability.
Platform leadershipModernization
2020 — 2023
Remote
Remote
NCR vs Tin Roof
Technical consultant
15-person Scrum team across U.S., Prague, India
Lead Software Engineer / Team Lead
- Led development of NCR's next-generation point-of-sale platform.
- Managed a 15-person Scrum team collaborating across the U.S., Prague, and India.
- Drove cross-functional delivery for enterprise retail systems and modernization efforts.
Platform leadershipModernization
2019 — 2020
State Farm
Engineering & QA
9 testers in a SAFe Agile environment
Software Engineer · earlier QA Lead
- Built scalable Java Spring Boot and Angular applications focused on performance and UX.
- Led a team of nine testers in a SAFe Agile environment, improving coverage and release reliability.
Hands-on executionModernization
2016 — 2019
Education
Georgia Tech
Coursework toward M.S. Computer Science — Machine Learning concentration
2018 — 2019
Georgia State University
B.S. Computer Science
2011 — 2015
Professional Development
Anthropic — Claude Certified Architect, Foundations
Exam preparation in progress
Skills & Tools
Languages
TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Java · SQL · Bash
Frontend
React · Next.js · Angular · Tailwind CSS · React Native
Backend
Node.js · Express · Spring Boot · Flask · GraphQL
Cloud / Infra
AWS · GCP · Azure · Docker · Kubernetes · Jenkins · ArgoCD
Data
Snowflake · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · LiveRamp
AI / ML
Agent orchestration · MCP · Local inference · OpenAI · Anthropic