Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
New York, NY
• Owned core payments and order flow as the company scaled from ~$60M to ~$240M ARR
• Migrated ~$200M in annual payment and order flow from Stripe Charges to Payment Intents, reducing fraud and refunds while improving transaction visibility
• Engineered prepaid annual phone plans to support yearly billing cycles, improving cash flow and retention
• Led backend integration for AT&T line provisioning with Ericsson, supporting our third major carrier launch
• Developed AI customer service agent (Python, Strands SDK) to automate data and roaming top-ups through LLM-based chat
• Resolved payment rate-limiting and mitigated DDoS and authentication attacks using Cloudflare and caching
• Led adoption of AI-assisted coding tools across engineering (Claude Code, Cursor) to improve developer productivity
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
New York, New York, United States
• Developed Java Spring Boot microservices to digitally onboard suppliers to the Amex network enabling B2B spend for 13,000+ suppliers
• Expanded supplier update event streaming capabilities by building serverless functions with Kotlin and Kafka to handle the ingestion of 350,000+ updates of Amex acceptance data
• Simplified MemSQL architecture by combining pipelines and procedures to automate the ingestion of hundreds of thousands of supplier data records
• Launched a .NET application that has scanned over 300,000 files for Indian credit card data, ensuring compliance with Indian data localization laws and allowing Amex to resume issuing cards in India
• Released a file upload web application for Amex’s risk management platform using .NET and JavaScript, optimizing file processing times by 85%
• Implemented authorization policies and constructed proxy endpoints to enable key external partners to securely access Amex's APIs
• Built a custom scanning library in C# to identify attachments in Microsoft Office files, saving $10,000+ annually in licensing fees
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Developed and maintained Ormuco's IaaS web application using AngularJS, Python, HTML and CSS by resolving bugs and adding new features to improve user experience and product functionality
• Automated the installation process for backup software on Virtual Machines using AngularJS and Bash scripting, reducing installation time by 90%
• Created a VMware-to-raw image converter for Ormuco’s cloud portal, allowing clients to easily transfer their virtual machines to Ormuco’s cloud
• Developed RESTful API endpoints to manage product metadata on the platform using Python, Flask, MySQL and CockroachDB
• Designed a reusable pricing script used to automate the price setting of over 1000+ products across multiple production environments
2020 — 2020
2020 — 2020
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Designed an internal tagging tool for an e-commerce startup using Vue.js to gather ML training data
• Implemented a flagging system to resolve incomplete listings to ensure data integrity throughout the platform
• Optimized style guide lookup and tagging speed by dynamically fetching style guides from AWS S3 storage
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Montreal, Canada Area
• Tutored 10+ McGill students with custom lesson plans to provide better understanding of coursework in algorithms and data structures, software design, computer architecture and integral calculus
• Facilitated efficient study strategies by advising students on review material and answering homework questions outside of tutor lessons
Education
McGill University
Bachelor of Arts - BA
2016 — 2020
Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
Bachelor's degree
2019 — 2019