Full-stack tech lead in fintech with end-to-end ownership from concept to scaled production systems. I ship revenue-driving products and modernize architecture, performance, and developer experience across teams.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
New York, New York, United States
Full-Stack Tech lead with end-to-end ownership across product, platform, and org-wide engineering standards. Built and scaled customer-facing fintech products while modernizing architecture and accelerating delivery through tooling, performance, and developer experience improvements.
• Tech Lead for Alloy’s Embedded Finance product suite; partnered across a 50-engineer org to ship from concept to launch, driving $10M+ net new ARR in year one.
• Served as EMEA Tech Lead to accelerate European expansion; partnered with Sales/Product/Support and introduced ROI prioritization models (NPV/IRR) to focus roadmap on higher-payback, lower-maintenance work.
• Set frontend direction by building a ~100k LoC reference implementation for next-gen architecture, consolidating multiple legacy React/Django entry points into a unified React SPA; led RFC process, incorporated feedback, secured exec buy-in, and landed new org-wide standards (types, routing, linting, testing).
• Rebuilt internal DB access layer to remove deprecated patterns/dependencies and improve query efficiency, observability, and documentation; delivered ~15% p95 API latency improvement with zero rollout incidents.
• Led the Frontend Guild (cross-team standards + quality); drove major upgrades/migrations (React, Webpack→Vite, Jest→Vitest) cutting CI time 90% (24m→2.5m); achieved 100% Storybook coverage for 50+ design-system components, increasing adoption 40%.
• Reduced onboarding time 90% (7h→30m) by building an internal developer CLI as part of the Engineering Enablement team; standardized org-wide linting/formatting/build tooling, reducing PR review time 25%.
• TypeScript champion: rewrote 5+ internal libraries to 100% strict type-safety and 90% unit test coverage; raised org TypeScript maturity via training, mentoring, and best-practice guidance.
2020 — 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Mechanical X Advantage (MXA) is a 12-person, angel-funded startup that was focused on building a new cloud technology platform for data centers and high-rise real estate. MXAs software product specialized in automating the management and analytics of commercial HVAC and other high-cost industrial equipment.
• Strategized on growth initiatives with the company’s exec team, and presented recommendations, as well as monthly financial reports, to the board of directors and outside investors
• Spearheaded the adoption of multiple new business software suites, including accounting, reporting, HR, remote operations, and team collaboration software, resulting in a 75% decrease in time investment for monthly close operations
• Effectively standardized companywide reporting packages and financial planning processes to project revenue, expenses, and cashflow on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
2020 — 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Director of Technology and lead software engineer for MXA’s proprietary cloud software platform.
• Established the development lifecycle for MXA’s software platform by building product roadmaps, setting engineering priorities, driving feature sprints, and designing UI and UX interactions
• Led full stack development, creating multiple web applications in TypeScript, using React, Node.js, Postgres and GraphQL
• Analyzed key metrics used to forecast adoption and growth, and conducted customer interviews on a weekly/monthly basis, integrating the findings into future development sprints to further the software adoption and product value proposition
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
New York, New York
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Greater Philadelphia Area
Patriot Financial is a $1B+ AUM Private Equity firm focused on the FIG vertical; specifically regional and community banks, and the technology that powers them.
• Led analysis for the firm’s first three investments in the FinTech vertical, including technical due diligence, valuation modelling, and term sheet structuring, ultimately resulting in three portfolio investments totaling over $50MM
• Built financial models to evaluate new growth equity deals and analyze the firm’s 30+ portfolio companies on a quarterly basis
• Researched 50+ publicly traded FIG companies and formulated long/short investment theses for the creation and development of the firm’s first actively managed hedge fund vehicle, including utilizing derivatives to create arbitrage return strategies
• Served as board representation for portfolio companies
Education
Drexel University
Bachelor's of Science
2009 — 2014