Experience

Responsibilities

Worked with a distributed team of engineers, marketers, and designers to deliver technical products for our customers and partners.

• Migrated vendor integrations from a legacy integration to an robust internally-built platform
• Contributed to codebases for internal and external products
• Supported the business through technical planning and backlog management

Responsibilities

Led a globally distributed team of engineers, product managers, and project managers in the U.S., LATAM, and Poland delivering client software projects across multiple industries. Contributed hands-on to codebases across multiple languages, architected client solutions, and created initial application versions before facilitating team handoffs.

• Contributed hands-on to client codebases across Node.js, TypeScript, Java, .NET, PHP, and Python, spanning greenfield builds, refactors, and production support
• Architected cloud-native, distributed solutions for clients across multiple industries, owning technical strategy from initial design through delivery
• Led a global team of 6 engineers, 1 tech lead, and 1 project manager across concurrent client engagements, growing to 12 total in 2026
• Owned $1.8M+ in annual billable services, managing project scope, delivery health, and client satisfaction across a portfolio of accounts

Key Accomplishments

Successfully delivered solutions that grew 6-year relationships by 50% or more post-acquisition by introducing new opportunities for established clients each year.

• Rearchitected five open-source SDKs for a cryptocurrency payment gateway, introducing full test coverage and complete API parity across all language implementations, reducing early implementation support tickets by 90% (from ~10/month to 1–2)
• Designed and delivered a distributed, cloud-native reporting platform for a Fortune 1000 presort mail logistics client serving 8,000 enterprise users with daily deployments
• Completed a 200-page technical due diligence report within 30 days, directly supporting a client's successful acquisition combining a 12-year partnership
• Built a custom WorldPay eMAF file processor enabling daily transactional analysis across millions of records
• Managed the implementation of a suite of 9 Shopify stores in the video game merch space, facilitating $35M in revenue in 2025 per year and 95% YoY growth in 2023, 2024, and 2025
• Designed and executed a proof-of-concept to replace a costly third-party nonprofit lookup SaaS with an Apache Airflow-based data ingestion framework and internal API, eliminating ~$10k per year in third-party service costs
• Designed and developed a cloud-native, post-purchase fraud analysis integration for a payment gateway reseller, sustaining 50+ transactions per second
• Led platform stabilization of an eCommerce site that supported revenue growth from $2.4M to $3.0M (+25%)

Responsibilities

Built a Philadelphia and New York City-based agency focused on creating scalable technology solutions to grow clients' businesses, covering technical product management, system architecture, and application planning.

• Led engineering and product delivery for a boutique agency, managing teams of 18–30 engineers and project managers across concurrent client engagements
• Owned all aspects of system architecture, technical product management, and application planning for client projects spanning eCommerce, payments, and distributed systems
• Designed and continuously improved a Kanban-based SDLC supporting agile metric measurement and delivery auditability, including a custom internal dashboard serving 15 agile teams across 9 product groups with ~20 statistical metrics and outlier detection based on standard deviation analysis
• Guided clients through PCI compliance implementations and ongoing compliance maintenance

Key Accomplishments

Architected and shipped solutions for clients ranging from Series A-E startups to enterprises with revenue of $3B+ and 14,000 employees, driving measurable business outcomes across every engagement. After building a loyal client base over 13 years, the agency was sold to ITX Corp, bringing clients along to provide expanded support through new skillsets.

• Led the 0-to-1 engineering build of Stadium Goods' platform, handing off to their internal team in early 2017; the company subsequently sold to Farfetch for $250M
• Executed a live migration of 5M+ orders, customers, invoices, shipments, and payment transactions out of a multi-store Magento installation with individual record-level validation and zero downtime, completed in approximately one week
• Consulted Pet360 through their acquisition by PetSmart, solving technical and business challenges to meet post-acquisition integration goals
• Managed a team building and maintaining Scala-based services for a cross-border eCommerce platform serving ~2M users, subsequently acquired by Global-ee
• Built a custom Spreedly payment orchestration integration for a gym equipment manufacturer ($200M–$500M revenue), supporting portable card tokens and real-time payment gateway switching
• Led the stabilization of the CitiBike iOS application and delivered a new Android application, each completed in approximately one month, addressing real-time sync, push notifications, testing coverage, and event analytics
• Successfully grew and sold the agency to ITX Corp after 13 years, bringing the full client portfolio into an expanded service offering
• Took over the Jira Ruby Gem when it had ~50K downloads which now has over 60M and is used in the core of GitLab