Responsible for driving engineering strategy and ensuring successful delivery across teams and portfolios while elevating engineering practices through mentorship and hands-on collaboration.

• Mentored engineers of all experience levels, fostering growth, collaboration, and the adoption of modern development and delivery practices.
• Scoped and defined engineering engagement plans for new consulting initiatives, aligning technical strategies with client goals.
• Led teams through challenging and ambiguous situations, including acting as a “flame jumper” to stabilize and turn around struggling engineering teams in a critical program for a major US bank.
• Facilitated customer workshops, including a delivery strategy session for a major pharmaceutical company, leading to building tooling to improve delivery using DORA metrics.
• Managed diverse infrastructure across projects, including a flagship financial application in Azure, high-throughput batch processing with Knative and Kafka, and modernizing existing systems to configuration-as-code using CDK and FluxCD.

First senior hire at a boutique software consultancy, instrumental in shaping development practices, culture, and team growth.

• Established and grew the core development team with the founders, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
• Partnered with startups to deliver software core to their business, acting as both a CTO-level advisor and hands-on implementor.
• Developed configuration-as-code Kubernetes infrastructure for clients, operating and scaling business-critical systems while supporting partner integrations.

Promoted to reflect expanding influence beyond the product team into office-wide and organizational levels.

• Grew engineering practices by organizing talks, events, and mentoring developers.
• Partnered with the US Air Force Kessel Run program to implement cutting-edge development practices, enabling weekly delivery into air-gapped networks.

Led teams to deliver business-critical products using XP practices (TDD, Pair Programming, CI/CD) in a highly collaborative environment.

• Guided cross-functional teams (PM, Design, Engineering) to rapidly develop and iterate on lean MVPs, deploying updates multiple times daily.
• Enabled developers to adopt modern development and delivery practices by teaching and collaborating alongside them, fostering organizational change at scale.
• Delivered high-quality products at pace by managing team backlogs and aligning with stakeholders on priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Modernized legacy monolithic applications into scalable, event-driven microservices, improving performance and maintainability.

Defined and led the customer-facing integrations engineer role, creating customer facing business processes.

• Served as the primary technical contact for high-profile partners, including Glu and Zynga.
• Integrated and launched numerous games on the Skillz platform, driving critical partner success.

Joined Skillz pre-launch as the 5th engineer and played a crucial part in building out core technology.

• Built core tournament and monetization backend and infrastructure for launch and scaled to handle growing customer base.
• Spearheaded expedited delivery of a business-critical partner portal, unlocking vital revenue streams for a funding round.