Seattle, Washington, United States
**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.