AI -> Product

As the principal engineer and technical architect for Google Sellside's first external-facing Certified Publisher Program portal, I led a complex initiative spanning eight cross-disciplinary teams—including Product, Engineering, Legal, CRM, and multiple Data Engineering domains.

This transformative system serves 2,000+ users across hundreds of organizations, harmonizing divergent requirements and integrating disjoint internal systems to accelerate pipeline velocity by 53% and unlock over $200M in revenue.

What I accomplished:

Democratized data access for 80%+ of the organization by leading a strategic initiative that bridged business intelligence and engineering teams, designing an enterprise architecture with specialized "AI expert" microservices leveraging Gemini AI that reduced data request lag from 2 days to 2 minutes—saving 10,000+ hours annually.

Architected a custom caching solution that optimized data retrieval patterns and resource allocation, reducing page loading times by 20,000% and substantially improving user experience for external partners.

Instituted a centralized analytics platform integrating 10+ internal tools, enabling the identification and deprioritization of low-impact tools, resulting in an 18% time savings and increased focus on high-value initiatives.

Doubled support case throughput capacity, delivering savings of 14,000+ hours annually by resolving critical performance bottlenecks in the automation system.

Led as principal engineer and product strategist for a mission-critical graph-based distributed system at AWS Hardware Engineering. I architected the entire solution from first principles, defined component boundaries, delegated implementation to senior and junior engineers, secured executive buy-in through strategic MVP development, and expanded the team from 3 to 7 engineers.

This transformative system replaced thousands of unstructured documents with a scalable, version-controlled solution that democratized complex dependency data access across domains and fundamentally altered how the organization designs and manages server rack infrastructure.

What I accomplished:

Pioneered a customized build infrastructure for non-standard technologies by architecting a comprehensive pipeline for graph databases and Go applications—creating a custom CI/CD solution that became the foundational standard adopted by multiple teams.

Championed organizational technology evolution by successfully advocating for and implementing GoLang backend within a Java-dominant organization, resulting in 40% faster parsing and establishing a precedent for future technology adoption.

Led architectural governance and engineering excellence by establishing structured decision-making processes, implementing delegation frameworks, creating code review standards, and resolving design disagreements through trade-off analysis.

Led architecture and design for a pioneering Node.js service-based foundation layer in Ubiquiti's NVR home surveillance system, constructing a custom microservices framework that eliminated 100% of race conditions and became the architectural standard across subsequent product lines.

What I accomplished:

Directed the Android platform team by establishing new development standards through strategic migration of UI state management to React Native while preserving the native high-performance layer.

Optimized real-time streaming performance by re-engineering video decoding in the Android client, reducing memory consumption by 75% while maintaining high-quality streaming capabilities.

Achieved ultra-low latency mobile gaming streaming at 60 FPS with 60% less jitter by SWIG transpiling the interface between hybrid C++ native and Java, reducing frame processing overhead by 40%.

Directed fullstack development of the Octane Render Cloud platform—an interactive dashboard for real-time monitoring of distributed rendering jobs—mentoring multiple engineers and reducing rendering project completion times from 2+ weeks to under 3 hours.

Established high-velocity engineering practices by implementing structured Git branching strategies and continuous integration workflows that accelerated feature development by 25%.