Lead buyer-facing auth and identity for Shopify's commerce platform.

• Built and launched New Customer Accounts, Shopify's OAuth/OIDC buyer authentication platform, supporting stores processing up to 40K checkout starts per minute. Drove significant YoY growth in merchant adoption and related revenue.

• Launched the Public Customer Account API and enterprise SSO support for third-party OAuth2/OIDC identity providers

• Shipped Shopify's Customer Accounts MCP server: lets AI assistants access order history, account data, and customer preferences on behalf of authenticated buyers using OAuth 2.0 with PKCE

Led engineering for Virtru's data protection platform: encryption and access control infrastructure that determines who can see sensitive data, under what conditions, and with what audit trail.

• Launched the Virtru Data Protection platform from 0 to 1, establishing an enterprise sales pipeline in year one

• Managed 20+ engineers including 3 engineering manager reports and 11 international contractors

• Kept attrition at 5% in 2020 through deliberate hiring and retention during a volatile market

• Aligned engineering, product, and program management to ship faster and reduce cross-team friction

• Built Virtru's engineering career ladder from scratch: levels, expectations, and growth paths for the entire org

• Led multiple product teams delivering secure file protection and content management capabilities

• Introduced OKRs, Agile, and CI/CD practices across teams

Led engineering for CHBase, a cloud-based Personal Health Record (PHR) and health data interoperability platform serving providers, payers, and device manufacturers.

• Led a cross-functional team of 45+: solutions architects, QA, network engineering, 40 offshore developers, and designers

• Delivered a $5M national PHR for the government of Sweden in six months: 2,500 concurrent users, terabytes of clinical data

• Built HL7 FHIR API with SMART on FHIR support, enabling standards-based health data exchange across providers, payers, and third-party apps

• Designed patient-controlled consent and authorization infrastructure: authentication, granular access controls, auditing, data provenance, and digital signature verification

• Implemented CI/CD pipelines (90% reduction in deployment times); optimized Azure cloud costs by 25%

Established the Solutions Architect group, creating a new function for project design and client integration.

• Led enterprise healthcare integrations with NYC Health + Hospitals, Telus Health, and Caradigm/Microsoft: scoping requirements, designing solutions, and delivering client-specific PHR deployments

• Drove Agile adoption across development teams, reducing development hours by 20%

• Partnered with providers and health systems on interoperability, patient data exchange, and platform customization