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• Senior Software Engineer, Primer

  Jan, 2026 - Present

  Returned to hands-on engineering to focus on deep technical work and building systems directly. Currently launching and leading Primer's new Platform team, responsible for all authentication and authorization across the platform.

  • Transitioned back to individual contributor role after 3 years in management to focus on hands-on technical work and direct system ownership.

  • Launching Primer's Platform team with ownership of authentication and authorization infrastructure across the entire platform, establishing foundational identity and access management capabilities.

• Engineering Manager, Primer

  Aug, 2023 - Jan, 20262 years 5 months

  Leading an 8-person payments management engineering team at Primer, focusing on Payments Reconciliation and Foreign Exchange. Drove operational excellence, launched the company's first FX product, and transformed team culture around reliability and sustainable engineering practices.

  • Rescued a critical but neglected reconciliation system experiencing chronic high-risk outages (~5/month). Led a 4-month focused effort to address fundamental scaling issues, achieving 6+ months of zero production incidents and reducing ongoing incident rate to <1/month.

  • Launched Primer's first Foreign Exchange product from greenfield, balancing market fit flexibility with robust handling of sensitive financial data. Led team through domain upskilling while establishing foundational FX capabilities for the platform.

  • Built and grew team from 2 to 8 engineers, hiring 6 engineers who were retained and promoted across the spectrum from E2 to Staff level, establishing a strong technical culture and career development pipeline.

  • Implemented office hours on-call rotation to reduce context switching and protect engineering focus time. Drove alert noise reduction initiative (OKR), decreasing production alerts from ~45/week to <10/week through systematic review and refinement of monitoring strategy.

• Senior Backend Engineer, Primer

  Nov, 2021 - Aug, 20231 year 9 months

  At Primer, I worked on core platform systems powering merchant-facing products, with a focus on scalability, performance, and data-driven insights. My contributions modernized key dashboard experiences, improved developer and customer experience, and unlocked new business opportunities.

  • Rebuilt the Payments List page (one of the most used areas of the merchant dashboard), migrating queries from SQL to Elasticsearch + Kafka. Reduced query latency from ~30 seconds to <500ms across millions of payments with 100+ searchable attributes. Enhanced UX by enabling search and filtering on any attribute (e.g., customer name, amount, currency, address).

  • Led migration from DynamoDB to CockroachDB for all dashboard databases, delivering multi-regional support, more efficient querying, and a significantly improved developer experience aligned with business requirements.

  • Built the backend for an observability platform using Firebolt + CubeJS, enabling merchants to access rich charts and insights into payment performance. This became a commercial product line, generating hundreds of thousands in revenue.

• Senior Backend Engineer, Mercadona Tech

  Apr, 2018 - Jul, 20213 years 3 months

  As part of the Last Mile Delivery engineering team, I designed and scaled critical systems to support high-growth e-commerce operations and logistics. My work enabled the company to save significant costs, handle rapid demand surges, and establish a more resilient technical foundation.

  • Built a custom vehicle routing engine that optimized ~5,000 deliveries and 100+ vehicles in under 5 minutes, saving ~€100k annually and enabling future extensions such as multi-warehouse routing.

  • Developed and maintained Relé, an internal Python library leveraging Google Pub/Sub, which allowed seamless scaling of the e-commerce platform across multiple teams. It improved developer onboarding and reduced integration friction across services.

  • Designed and deployed an ETL platform using Relé, reducing monthly costs by thousands of euros while enabling reliable ingestion of data into Google BigQuery for cross-product analytics.

  • Migrated interservice communication from brittle HTTP to resilient async processes, while also setting company-wide publishing and subscribing standards.

  • Optimized e-commerce platform performance, helping all API endpoints consistently meet a 250ms SLO, a critical achievement during COVID-19 quarantines when online grocery ordering demand spiked dramatically.

• Full-Stack Engineer, Solaris Offgrid

  Aug, 2016 - Apr, 20181 year 8 months

  Lead development team to new features, products and tooling at Solaris Offgrid.

  • Lead development team to new features, products and tooling

  • Launch and maintain mobile and web applications

  • Focus on scaling from 100 to 100K+ clients

  • Containerized (Docker) all aspects of our software

  • Set up and optimize all our Continuous integration and continuous deployment strategies

  • Manage database persistence and integrity (PostgreSQL, SQLite and CouchDB)

  • Communicate with on the ground staff to solve tech issues

  • Prioritize issues and features brought forth by staff to better integrate technology into day-to-day business operations

  • Conduct development meetings and debriefing sessions as it pertains to our Agile development process

• Web Developer, Principal

  Aug, 2015 - Aug, 20161 year

  Freelance web development work in Washington D.C. Metro Area.

  • Develop and maintain web pages for businesses

  • Continual maintenance of servers and code base

  • Find balance with clients desires and best user experiences

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