Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Seattle, Washington, United States
Senior Tech Lead & Product Architect, working across 4 engineering teams with over 30 engineers focused on API design and product development. Drives cross-organizational alignment and shape product roadmap for Payments APIs while defining architectural vision and ensuring high-quality standards for our users. Leads high-priority engineering initiatives as a key product leader and individual contributor, leveraging expertise in payments, API design, and scalable system architecture.
2019 — 2024
2019 — 2024
Seattle, Washington
Payments API
Established technical product direction in alignment with company strategy and key objectives. Directed the development and delivery of critical payment and payout solutions in the API. Fostered cross-functional collaboration and mentored several engineers.
Search Infrastructure
Developed scalable search platform at Stripe, managing petabytes of data to power both internal and external search functionality. Collaborated closely with product teams to develop search use cases. Led initiatives to optimize search indexing pipelines and reduced operational toil.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Greater Seattle Area
Managed a team of 5 software developers to build Whitepages mobile app from scratch in React Native.
Successfully launched and maintained the mobile app on both iOS and Android platforms, achieving 4.6 stars with 682k monthly active users on iOS and 4.3 stars with 147k monthly active users on Android.
2014 — 2018
2014 — 2018
Greater Seattle Area
Built, maintained, and deployed all Whitepages websites in Ruby on Rails for 35 million unique users a month. Mentored software engineering interns and new grads as they started a career in tech.
2012 — 2014
Liaison between UW Dream Project and Cleveland High School. Organize college mentors, contact Cleveland students and work with Cleveland administration.
Education
University of Washington
Computer Engineering
2010 — 2014