Lead Staff Engineer - Technical Leader & Architect

Leading a high-performing engineering team through rapid growth and transformation, combining technical excellence with strategic leadership to deliver scalable solutions.

o AI Integration & Development: Spearheaded AI adoption across engineering organization by

rolling out Cursor IDE to the entire team while establishing quality standards and maintaining

clear product direction. Designed and implemented AI-powered systems that transform

complex customer analytics questions into executable queries, dramatically improving user

accessibility to data insights.

o Team Leadership & Growth: Successfully scaled engineering organization from 4 to 16

engineers, guiding the transition from a single-threaded startup team to a multi-threaded,

multi-team structure while maintaining delivery velocity and team cohesion.

o Strategic Technical Vision: Partner closely with Product and Executive leadership on

quarterly planning and roadmap development, bridging product vision with engineering

realities to create achievable, impactful delivery plans that align with business objectives.

o Architecture & Scale: Drive architectural decisions across all major platform initiatives,

designing systems for growth while maintaining performance and reliability. Recent

optimizations include custom database solutions that improved query performance by an

order of magnitude.

Full Stack Development on Collegiate and Academics Platforms:

o Backend Development & Modernization: Contributed to backend development initiatives

using Python (Flask/Django), systematically refactoring legacy Coldfusion codebase to

modern architecture while maintaining system stability and feature delivery pace.

o Product Delivery & Integration: Delivered multiple successful product launches including

Study Hall, Professor Surveys, and Tutor Sessions. Built robust GraphQL APIs integrated with

React frontend using ApolloClient, ensuring seamless user experiences across platforms.

o Technical Stack: Python, Flask, Django, GraphQL, ApolloClient, React, Coldfusion, Postgres

Full Stack Development on our Learning and Assessments Platforms:

o Analytics & Reporting Solutions: Contributed to development of comprehensive analytics

reports using Angular 5+ for analyzing and comparing user test results across the platform.

Created multiple data visualization tools that enabled stakeholders to make data-driven

decisions on learning outcomes.

o Backend & Data Infrastructure: Built RESTful Web APIs using C#, .NET, and Entity Framework

for robust reporting capabilities. Contributed to the design and implementation of a Data

Warehouse using star schema architecture for calculating scores and percentiles across

diverse user groups, enabling complex comparative analytics at scale.

Software Quality Assurance Tester on Tom Clancy's The Division

• Develop automated framework for regression and smoke testing builds. Writing unit tests for newly created content in C#.

• Improve efficiency of our QA team by creating standalone tools to improve efficiency of our QA team such a bug template generators and batch files to automate build process to local machines.

Software Quality Assurance Tester on Paragon and Fortnite

• Developing a framework for automated testing of our live game Paragon including Smoke Tests, and Regression Testing inside the unreal engine. Also, created reporting for time saved by these automated tests.

• Improve efficiency of our QA team by creating standalone tools to improve efficiency of our QA team such a bug template generators and batch files to automate build process to local machines.

• Member of the Dev-Support team which was tasked with creating things such as QA Test Cases for regression testing, improving efficiency of the QA team, and general smoke / performance testing on new builds.