I am a strategic engineering leader focused on building high-velocity organizations that bridge the gap between complex distributed systems and tangible business value.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
• Orchestrated the tech roadmap to support a 5x increase in ads revenue by 2025.
• Spearheaded the integration of LLM/AI Agent technology, resulting in a 2x increase in click-through rates.
• Streamlined creative reviews through machine learning, achieving a 70% cost reduction and 50% fewer incidents.
• Collaborated with executives to develop a Unified Ads Platform, doubling delivery speed.
2019 — 2022
2019 — 2022
Engineering leader within Ad Experience org managing mutliple teams (inclusive of engineering managers) that support innovating the Spotify user ad experience and impression event system on the Spotify client utilized by the 300+ million users.
2017 — 2019
2017 — 2019
• Leading the Visit Capture org responsible for intaking and processing client data via telephony, mobile and middleware compromising of mobile, web, data and qa engjneers
Discuss and strategize to continually evaluate technologies and development procedures as part of the Architecture team which has led to standardization of architectural best practices across several teams
• Design, document, and implement architecture of highly scalable fault isolated containerized JAVA micro services utilizing MySQL, Spring Boot 2, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Docker Swarm
• Collaborate with Product Owners as part of the Agile process to review user stories and develop a timeline in order to deliver value-based features
• Participate in client discussions in order to effectively gather technical requirements
• Implement deployment scripts and oversaw automated test development in order to support Continuous Delivery
2011 — 2019
2011 — 2019
• Serve as technical lead and implement/maintain features on a multi-platform hybrid mobile and web application
• Features are implemented using Java and Objective-C on mobile platforms, in conjunction with PhoneGap to bridge native mobile code and web code (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript).
• Implement/maintain features on .NET Web and Application services utilizing .NET, Entity Framework, MEF dependency injection manager, and automated unit testing.
• Maintain SQL Server 2008 R2 projects which involve creating/altering tables, creating/altering stored procedures, and creating/maintaining update scripts
• Manage small team of developers (2-3) by overseeing technical designs of requirements and conducting code reviews
• Collaborate with other development teams in order to architect and implement enterprise solutions spanning multiple applications
• Collaborate with Product Management in order to develop technical requirements for business solutions
• Collaborate with IT in order to develop and implement over the air mobile deployment solutions for iOS and Android, troubleshoot application services, and maintain automated deployment processes
2010 — 2018
2010 — 2018
Architect website structure and wireframes
PHP scripting to enable dynamic content; Utilization of JQuery and AJAX to enhance user interaction and; Development using web standards, allowing for upgradability and cross browser compatibility.