Leading the Growth / Revenue ML team.

Taking an intentional pause to deepen technical expertise and pursue creative exploration.

Technical Focus

• Building a multi-agent orchestration product from scratch, going hands-on using modern AI development tools

• Sharpening my 0→1 product instincts by owning the full lifecycle from architecture through MVP

Creative Exploration

• Developing an Art-Tech venture at the intersection of creativity and technology

Personal Priorities

• Investing in health, travel, and time with family

Exploring Senior Engineering Manager opportunities where I can apply renewed technical depth, strong people leadership, and strategic product thinking to mission-driven challenges at scale.

Led engineering teams across two critical domains: Growth Retention and Experimentation Platform.

Chapter 2: Scaling the Innovation Engine (Experimentation Platform)

• Recognizing that our product teams needed faster and more reliable feedback loops, I led the 0-to-1 build of Chime’s internal Experimentation Platform.

• Built and managed a cross-functional team of 12+ engineers (Full Stack & Data) to architect a self-serve system replacing manual workflows.

• Designed for high-volume scale: The system processed high-velocity impression streams with strict latency requirements (< 10ms), ensuring zero impact on critical banking flows (99.99% availability).

• Impact: Democratized A/B testing across the company, significantly accelerating feature velocity and decision-making confidence.

Chapter 1: Driving Business Revenue (Growth Retention)

• Led the Member Retention squads, focusing on increasing Customer LTV and reactivating churned users.

• Partnered with Product, Design, Analytics and Research to ship rapid experiments that drove measurable lift in user engagement.

• Navigated the complexity of "moving fast" in a regulated fintech environment, ensuring all growth tactics met strict compliance/risk standards.

Originally joined as a Technical Lead, architecting core payment features. Promoted to Engineering Manager to lead the same team I helped build, bridging the gap between architectural strategy and people leadership.

• Owned the high-stakes vaulting, payment method storage, and network tokenization services that enabled global merchants to orchestrate payments with high reliability.

• Deep Fintech Infrastructure: Led the design and implementation of Network Tokenization and PCI-DSS compliant vaulting strategies. This infrastructure directly reduced transaction decline rates and enabled seamless recurring billing for enterprise customers.

• Strategic Integrations: Collaborated directly with major networks (Visa, Mastercard) to align our technical roadmap with emerging global payment standards.

• Hands-On Leadership: Operated as a "Player-Coach," balancing architectural contributions (Ruby on Rails) with hiring and mentorship. I successfully scaled the team's velocity while mentoring junior engineers into senior contributors.