RESUME
Summary
Senior Engineering Leader | Full-Stack & Platform Leadership | Operational Excellence at Scale
Engineering Leader with 15+ years in software engineering and 8+ years managing multiple cross-functional teams delivering revenue-critical platforms at scale. Proven track record driving operational excellence—reducing deployment cycles, optimizing cloud costs, and building reliable event-driven systems across consumer SaaS, e-commerce, and enterprise products serving millions of users. Passionate about sustainable engineering practices, AI-driven automation, and developing high-performing teams that ship with velocity and confidence.
Work Experience
RELAY NETWORK | Engineering Manager
July 2024 - October 2025
- Led team of 5 engineers owning 30+ Java microservices powering a B2C SaaS platform for finance and healthcare clients, establishing technical strategy and engineering practices while maintaining HIPAA and SOC2 compliance
- Reduced deployment cycle time from 5 days to 1.5 days by streamlining release processes and engineering practices, accelerating feature delivery and team confidence
- Architected and shipped "Smart Actions" event-driven automation platform using AWS EventBridge, Step Functions, Lambda, and DynamoDB, enabling personalized client user journeys and unlocking new product capabilities
- Optimized Apache Kafka event processing architecture through consumer redesign and event filtering, saving $125K in annual cloud infrastructure costs while improving throughput and system reliability
- Enhanced encryption key management system to meet evolving security and compliance requirements across multi-tenant client base, ensuring seamless HIPAA/SOC2 audit readiness
- Partnered with Product and Compliance leadership to define technical roadmap and SLOs, balancing rapid innovation with regulatory requirements and operational excellence
COMCAST | Senior Engineer
Jan 2024 - July 2024
- Rebuilt ecommerce purchase experience to meet FCC regulatory requirements using TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Nx, and Tailwind—improving compliance rates and customer conversion while delivering under tight deadline
- Designed and implemented mobile device buyflow, establishing reusable component patterns that reduced development time for future purchase experiences
- Partnered with product, design, and engineering teams to architect shared component library and SSR patterns, eliminating duplicate effort and enabling consistent user experiences across Xfinity digital properties
XFINITY.COM | Senior Engineering Manager
March 2023 - Jan 2024
- Led 2 distributed engineering teams (14 engineers across US and India) delivering revenue-critical features for XFINITY.com internet, streaming, and mobile products—successfully relaunching sales platform to meet FCC regulatory deadline with 100% compliance
- Spearheaded creation of shared React component library adopted by 4 engineering teams, reducing feature development time significantly and establishing UI/UX standards across all Xfinity digital properties
- Redesigned and refactored Xfinity.com customer authentication, improving customer satisfaction, retention, and conversion, and reducing incidents
- Drove technical improvements in C#/.NET code organization and Azure deployment pipelines, partnering with cross-functional teams to accelerate delivery velocity and system reliability
- Established standardized hiring, interviewing, and onboarding practices for engineers at all levels, scaling team capabilities during period of organizational growth
SPOTIFY | Engineering Manager II
July 2022 - Feb 2023
- Led cross-functional backend and mobile engineering team building livestreaming platform features for millions of daily active users, partnering with Product and Data teams to define technical strategy and enable rapid feature experimentation
- Architected and scaled GCP infrastructure supporting high-volume services, data pipelines, and messaging systems processing millions of requests daily—establishing SLOs and operational practices that ensured reliability and data integrity
- Developed individual contributors into future technical leaders through personalized career development plans and mentorship, fostering culture of continuous learning and engineering excellence
XFINITY APP | Senior Engineering Manager
June 2019 - July 2022
- Architected event-driven serverless platform on AWS (Lambda, Fargate) to replace monolithic legacy system, reducing operational costs by 15% and improving latency for mobile/web clients serving 10M+ users
- Migrated APIs from Hypermedia to GraphQL/hJSON data models, driving adoption across web, mobile, and backend teams—establishing modern API standards that improved developer velocity and client performance
- Led 2-year platform consolidation migrating 6 separate Comcast applications into unified XFINITY mobile app, coordinating cross-functional engineering teams and delivering Profile, Controls, and Security features
- Managed platform and mobile engineering teams building core XFINITY app infrastructure, mentoring engineers through 1:1s and individual development plans to foster continuous learning and career growth
XFINITY MOBILE | Manager, Web Dev & Engineering
October 2016 - June 2019
- Led development of agent-facing sales and account maintenance platform, integrating retail and care functionalities into unified application that improved operational efficiency and customer satisfaction
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Cloud Foundry, Git, Node, and NGINX—establishing deployment practices that improved delivery velocity and reliability across engineering organization
- Partnered with stakeholders to review data modeling, solution design, and product requirements, providing architecture guidance and time-to-market estimates for strategic initiatives
- Developed technical leads and subject matter experts through coaching and mentorship, building leadership pipeline for retail and care engineering verticals
BARCLAYCARD US | Senior Engineer
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
- Built single-page consumer lending application using JavaScript, implementing RESTful payment services with focus on security, reliability, and modularity
- Established test-driven development practices using Jasmine and Karma, and implemented CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and Maven—improving code quality and deployment reliability
- Collaborated with product, design, and QA teams to define requirements and acceptance criteria, ensuring robust user experiences for financial applications
Education
Art Institute of Philadelphia - Interactive Design (2009-2011)
Drexel University - Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (2003)
Skills
- React / TypeScript / JavaScript
- AWS (Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, EC2)
- GCP (Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Pub/Sub)
- Apache Kafka / Event-Driven Architecture
- GraphQL / RESTful APIs
- Node.js
- Java / C# / .NET
- CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Cloud Foundry)
- Nx / Tailwind / SSR Patterns
- AI Integration & Automation
- Incident Management & Operational Excellence
- Accessibility & Cross-Platform Development
