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Work Experience

• AVP App Development / Tech Lead, Private National Mortgage Acceptance Co. (PennyMac)

  May, 2024 - Present

  Led engineering strategy and delivery for business-critical internal and external platforms, enabling productivity and operational excellence across multiple teams.

  • Managed and mentored a cross-functional team of 12+ engineers (developers, QA, DevOps), fostering a culture of growth, collaboration, and high standards.

  • Championed Agile practices as Scrum Master, facilitating standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.

  • Partnered with business stakeholders, analysts, and product managers to align technical solutions with organizational goals.

  • Oversaw release planning, deployment, and incident response, ensuring reliability and transparency for all stakeholders.

  • Drove adoption of best practices in API design, security, and user experience.

  • Created and maintained technical and business documentation, including architecture diagrams, runbooks, and onboarding materials.

  • Presented technical solutions and new features to leadership and cross-functional teams.

  • Promoted operational excellence through monitoring, metrics, and post-deployment reviews.

• Principal Engineer, Private National Mortgage Acceptance Co. (PennyMac)

  Nov, 2022 - May, 20241 year 6 months

  Architected and delivered scalable cloud solutions and internal tools, collaborating across teams to drive technical excellence and business value.

  • Designed and implemented event-driven architectures using AWS (CDK, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, SNS) to process high-volume data workflows.

  • Developed robust backend APIs and microservices for mission-critical web portals used by 50,000+ users.

  • Led integration of new authentication and profile management systems (Auth0) to meet regulatory requirements.

  • Owned and maintained shared code repositories and internal node packages, promoting code reuse and quality.

  • Conducted peer code reviews, mentored engineers, and advocated for best practices in testing, security, and maintainability.

  • Collaborated with analysts and product owners to translate requirements into actionable user stories and technical designs.

  • Utilized monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, NewRelic, Sentry) to ensure system reliability and performance.

• Sr Application Developer, Private National Mortgage Acceptance Co. (PennyMac)

  Jan, 2020 - Oct, 20222 years 9 months

  Delivered high-impact features and internal tools for PennyMac's flagship web platforms, focusing on usability, reliability, and rapid iteration.

  • Developed feature-rich frontend applications (React, Redux, Next.js) for complex workflows and forms.

  • Built scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js and AWS.

  • Implemented event-driven data processing pipelines for nightly and automated batch operations.

  • Integrated manual and automated testing (Jest, Postman, SauceLabs) to ensure high code quality and coverage.

  • Participated in Agile teams, contributing to sprint planning, refinement, and delivery.

  • Maintained thorough documentation (Swagger/OpenAPI, Confluence, JIRA, TS-docs, README.md).

  • Practiced trunk-based development with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and feature flagging (LaunchDarkly).

• Software Engineer, ShowRUNNER™

  Jan, 2015 - Jan, 20205 years

  Built and scaled a progressive web platform for live and on-demand media, enabling seamless event capture and streaming for enterprise clients.

  • Developed ShowRUNNER as a PWA using Node.js, Express, Vue.js, and integrated payment and authentication APIs.

  • Worked with clients to understand their needs and deliver tailored solutions, including custom video players and event workflows.

  • Engineered a custom video player with adaptive bitrate streaming and offline capabilities, enhancing user experience.

  • Engineered live streaming and VOD workflows with Wowza, AWS, and custom automation.

  • Created a feature-rich platform including a customized revenue model with subscription, user, and event management tools.

  • Created internal tooling and a robust admin dashboard for user, account, and event management.

  • Developed services for email and SMS notifications and marketing campaigns.

  • Built tooling for creating custom educational certification programs and event workflows.

  • Implemented a custom-built video player with adaptive bitrate streaming and offline capabilities.

  • Developed tooling for managing live events and personalized event pages with varying levels of user access control.

  • Implemented real-time interactive features with WebSockets (socket.io, Redis pub/sub), live event chat, and data visualization (D3.js).

  • Designed built landing pages, marketing sites, and a blog style publication service for news and current events pages.

  • Led DevOps efforts for scalable, stateless deployments and monitoring (PM2, AWS EC2, ALB, S3, SQS, Lambda).

  • Managed MongoDB and Firebase databases, and implemented role-based access control.

  • Integrated with proprietary systems for capturing, streaming and uploading, transcoding, and facilitating high availability through a CDN.

  • Attended events and conferences to capture and stream live content, lead and train event staff, and ensure success with the platform.

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