Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
New York, New York, United States
* Developing the capability to allow users to send currency and other financial assets with only a phone number.
* Creation of the Kaala Pay on ramp for purchasing CUSD (Celo USD) for the entire US market, allowing users to purchase and send CUSD to other Kaala users
* Lead a team of engineers to establish the company's Ledger Live App for the on ramp purchase of Ethereum, USDC, Bitcoin, Solana, Cardano, and Avalanche assets for US market
* Technology utilized: Kotlin, Scala, Typescript, React, Node, NextJS, Google GCP, SCIO, Google Dataflow, Google Big Query, Google GCS, Fireblocks software
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
* Development of the Disney+, Star+ and Hulu personalization experience, tailoring the ordering of the rows and the content within the rows to the user's viewing habits
* Personalizing content to the user tailored to their viewing habits such as Recommended For You content and Because You Watched content
* Mentor, guidance and lead to a team of five
* Technology utilized: Scala, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Python, Redis, Postgres, Jooq, AWS, DynamoDB, Kinesis Streaming, S3
2016 — 2020
2016 — 2020
New York, United States
• Development of the Spotify voice experience, i.e. "Hey google, play my music on Spotify"
• Algorithmically generate playlists tailored to user preferences and tastes
• Enriching the artist experience with The Direct Artist Program. The Direct Program allows the artist to directly upload content, "https://artists.spotify.com/"
across all major streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google, etc), get directly paid by Spotify and promote directly with Spotify
• Automated marketing content notification management in the spotify client allowing the user to customize the channel and content
• Technology utilized: Scala, Java, JavaScript, Python, React, Redux, NodeJS, HTML5, CSS, PostCss, Sass, Google Dataflow pipelines, Google BigTable, Google BigQuery, Scio
2014 — 2016
2014 — 2016
• Co-lead the backend development effort for yahoo finance interactive charts (http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AAPL)
• Overhauled and lead the backend and front-end effort for yahoo financial options (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AAPL+Options)
• Co-lead the backend and front-end development for the new Yahoo Finance website
• Lead the completion of Automated Continuous Delivery of Front End and Backend software for Yahoo Finance
• Technology utilized: JavaScript, ReactJS, Mocha, Jasmine, Java, Jetty, Jersey, D3, Protractor, Flux, Fluxible, NodeJS, MongoDB, Webpack, Guice, ImmutableJS, Guava
2013 — 2014
2013 — 2014
Newport Beach, CA
• Increased asset expert efficiency by 50% by implementing a batch mode feature to price bonds using either market price or a set price level including horizon analysis and monitor cash flow job progression
• Lead the PIMCO Advisory team development effort for a new cash flow interface (Risk Management System) called Presto which interacts with both the MTG (internal) and Pass (internal) cash flow engines to price RMBS, CMBS, and ABS bonds utilizing Microsoft WPF technology combined with MVVM
• Architected a WPF and WCF solution for the CMBS team to interact with a CRE underwriting engine to evaluate property cash flows, loan cash flows, and a wide variety of other outputs resulting in a cost savings of 200K
• Oversaw and assumed the lead for a team of three senior team members comprising of mentoring and skills building
• Architected and oversaw the solution to increased asset portfolio valuation time by 25% utilizing the MEAN Stack (Mongo, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and NodeJS)
• Technology utilized: Microsoft WPF, Silverlight, Telerik Controls, C#, .NET 4.5, Visual Studio 2012, WCF, SQL Server, Oracle, Prism MVVM, Jenkins, Java J2EE, Tomcat, JavaScript
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor’s Degree
1999 — 2002
The University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of Business
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
2008 — 2010
SGP
High School
1995 — 1999