**Staff Software Engineer**

Technical leader for large-scale initiatives across the Venmo Web Application, GraphQL infrastructure, and payments orchestration platforms.

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### Selected Initiatives

#### Venmo Web Application — Tech Lead

* Built and scaled the Datadog observability platform.

* Led migrations of the component library (Material UI v4 → v5) and captcha provider (Arkose → hCaptcha).

* Led convergence of Venmo login with PayPal’s Identity Platform.

**Technologies:** Node.js, TypeScript, React, Playwright, Datadog, CloudFront, GitHub Actions CI/CD

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#### GraphQL Orchestration Layer — Tech Lead

* Enhanced GitHub Actions–based CI/CD pipelines.

* Assisted delivery of profile switching and migration from Kubernetes to Amazon EKS.

* Co-led a multi-year migration from a monolithic GraphQL platform to a federated architecture.

**Technologies:** Node.js, TypeScript, Apollo GraphQL Server and Router, Datadog, ElastiCache (Redis), EKS, Envoy

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#### Lead — International and Venmo–PayPal Payments

* Technical lead for a ~40-team program (20 PayPal, 20 Venmo).

* Shared Single-Threaded Owner responsibility with the Venmo CTO and Product counterpart.

* Directly led teams delivering:

* Venmo mobile application functionality.

* A backend orchestration service built on the PayPal World Payments Hub (AWS: Redis, DynamoDB, SQS, S3).

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#### AI Platform and SDLC Enablement

* Lead AI Advisor for PayPal Generative AI Ideahack (2023).

* Built Python tooling for secure Azure OpenAI integration, embeddings, and RAG using LangChain and Milvus.

* Part of a Venmo-wide initiative to embed AI into the SDLC, including:

* Claude Code–based AI coding workflows via CLI.

* MCP integrations with Datadog and Atlassian.

* AI-assisted code reviews using GitHub Copilot, complementing mandatory human review.

* MCP servers extending GraphQL and Payments Orchestration platforms.

As a senior level consultant, I've been involved with numerous companies and on multiple and diverse projects. Please see the resume posted above for details.

Primarily write React applications.

Currently working with 5calls.org and Popcode.org Open Source projects doing React work

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