• Contributed to delivery of modernized checkout experience for PayPal's core product to 150+ countries across 4 continents in ~3 months as part of cross-functional team of 10

• Performed Scrum Master duties for the team, improving sprint velocity from 48 to 90 through process optimization and team enablement

• Leveraged Claude Code to accelerate delivery timelines through custom skill creation, optimized development environment configuration, and strategic plugin integration

• Created reusable Claude Cowork skill for automated JIRA ticket creation that reduces closed→cancelled churn and improves backlog health; skill adopted by multiple Scrum teams across engineering organization

• Technical owner for debit card and ATM products, debit cards moved $10MM daily

• Architected, built, and delivered 7 Spring Boot REST APIs to encompass debit card creation and maintenance for the core banking platform migration

• --- New APIs led to a ~30% increase in card orders and supported 30+ business use cases with updates to internal & vendor systems

• --- Prioritized features offering clients maximum value and great experiences, such being able to instantly receive physical cards

• Served as primary technical relationship manager for strategic vendor relationships spanning core banking (FIS), payment networks (Visa), and card infrastructure

• --- Performed technical evaluations, decisioned RFPs using cost-of-ownership and buy-vs-buy analyses

• --- Saved $500K+ by declining solutions that would not deliver value while approving strategic enhancements

• --- Coordinated with vendor technical teams on bug fixes, enhancements, and upgrades

• Led enterprise cloud modernization and security initiative as solution champion across 5+ business lines and 15+ internal engineering teams

• --- Solution replaced clear-text card numbers with alias values

• --- Solution delivery caused no downtime

• --- 10+ million real-time translations from card number to alias values daily, 1.3 million DB records updated

• Primary technical point of contact for strategic vendor relationships: FIS (banking), Visa (payment processing), etc.

• Experience balancing the delivery of multiple high-impact, high-visibility initiatives

• Comfortable with ambiguity: managed core banking migration, including date changes, and role & responsibility changes post-JPMC acquisition

• --- Saved $.5MM+ by declining vendor enhancements lacking value

• Clear communicator, created and delivered a presentation on the debit & ATM ecosystem to JPMC MDs post-acquisition

• Built a full-stack call center application (Angular, Node.js, MongoDB) in 2 months

• --- Introduced real-time call risk scoring and educed swivel chairing by combining data from 3 systems

• --- Pivoted from React after release 1 to align with newly created department standard

• Created system architecture diagrams in support of core banking platform migration

• Delivered software solutions in Java and JavaScript to support critical business functionality using the firm’s CI/CD tooling including Github, Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory

• Help evangelize Agile methodologies

• --- Assisted business team members with learning to scope, write epics, features, and stories

• --- Wrote technical stores, created non-functional requirements, and maintained team knowledge base

• Developed and delivered application for new deposit account review in 3 months

• --- Improved efficiency from previous solution by 99.6% on the backend (> 1 min to sub .3s), and cut screen loading times by 50% by fixing state management

• Coordinated sports game watch parties throughout the Bay Area

• Co-managed Bay Area Terps social media presence. Created graphics to promote events

• Strategized with Alumni Association team members on solutions to improve engagement

• Implemented an integration to Salesforce to reduce swivel chairing

• Performed the Scrum Master role for a team of 10

• Worked closely with team members and the customer on Sprint 0 activities: molding of team working agreement, feature level estimation, backlog grooming, generation of program and release roadmap for complex engagement