Director of Information Security / Staff Software Engineer
Lavender
February 2023 — March 2026
- Designed and shipped production AI systems and agentic workflows in Go — using Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex as daily engineering tools — powering core product features for 100K+ users at a fast-moving AI-first startup.
- Architected and operated multi-cloud infrastructure across GCP, AWS, and Azure, supporting high-scale production workloads at 99.99% uptime.
- Championed AI-assisted development across the engineering org — standardizing Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex in the team's workflow and effectively scaling team output without scaling headcount.
- Led cloud infrastructure migration from GCP to Azure, saving the company $350K in infrastructure costs over 6 months.
- Owned the full product lifecycle for multiple AI-driven features — concept through deployment — compressing delivery timelines by an estimated 40–55% through AI-augmented engineering practices, shipping in days what would otherwise take weeks.
- Built the security program from the ground up to SOC 2 Type II compliance, owning IAM, MDM, vulnerability management, and incident response.
- Designed and managed MongoDB and relational data systems, optimizing query performance and reliability under production load.
- Mentored engineers across teams, set technical direction, and established standards for system design, code review, and observability.
- Drove reliability and observability improvements across backend services, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) and improving on-call ergonomics.