I've been shipping production systems mostly at the intersection of AI, payments, and commerce. I started as a founding team member of an NLP startup right out of college, spent a decade at Visa leading engineering for Token Services and Secure Remote Commerce, and now lead digital commerce platform engineering at...

Experience

MetaEngineering Leader

2022 — Now

Menlo Park, California, United States

Played a key role in growing Meta's digital commerce payments from a few hundred million to over $3B in total payment volume across Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads, spanning multiple platforms and form factors.

Owned the API strategy and led a major effort to unify the internal tech stack along domain boundaries, componentize the platform, and make it AI-ready. Also drove stack simplification and reliability improvements across the payments ecosystem.

Integrated with Amazon's Taskless and built onboarding flows for creator monetization. Partnered with a Big 4 consulting firm on an in-depth industry analysis of Meta's subscriptions capability.

Led AI adoption across Digital Commerce & Payments by running training programs on generative AI tooling and Claude Code. DCP became one of the fastest groups at Meta to adopt AI into daily workflows.

Regular hackathon participant. Won some, mentored others, always contributed

VisaSr. Director of Engineering- Secure Remote Commerce

2018 — 2022

Foster City, California, United States

Led engineering for Visa's Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) platform, the system behind Click to Pay. This was a joint effort across Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and Discover to replace manual card number entry in online checkout. Drove the global rollout.

VisaSr. Director, Engineering, Visa Token Services

2016 — 2018

San Francisco Bay Area

Key Accomplishments

1. Led Visa Token Services from Day zero through the launch

2. Improved the Visa Token Services API availability from 99.90 to 99.999%

3. Lead the team of development and test engineers delivering proximity payments (Samsung Pay, Android Pay), Wearable (Fitbit Pay, Garmin Pay), Offline Data Authentication (London Transit), emerging use cases (Connected cars) and feature phones (Reliance Jio)

VisaSr. Director, Program and Portfolio Management

2012 — 2016

Foster City

Ran the PMO for Visa's Payments and Digitization platform. Managed a portfolio of multi-million-dollar technology programs across Product Management and Product Development. Led post-acquisition integration of PlaySpan: security compliance, data center migration, software optimization, and client re-architecture.

VisaProgram Manager for Global Visa Online

2011 — 2012

Foster City

Managed identity and access management, B2B partner portals, and content management systems for Visa's partner-facing platforms.