Staff software engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and operating high-scale distributed systems, microservices, and production AI products. Deep backend engineering expertise in Go, Elixir, and Ruby with extensive multi-cloud experience across GCP, AWS, and Azure. Early adopter of AI-assisted development — proficient with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex — shipping faster and with higher quality by pairing AI tooling with strong system judgment. Hands-on security leadership including SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 compliance.
Distributed systems designMicroservices architectureProduction AI & LLM systemsAI-assisted development (Claude Code, Copilot, Codex)Cloud architecture (GCP, AWS, Azure)Backend engineeringAPI design (REST, gRPC)Technical leadership & mentorshipSite reliability engineeringSecurity & compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001)Infrastructure as codeSystem performance & scalabilityCI/CD & DevOps
Experience
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.
Senior Elixir Engineer
AAMP Global
August 2022 — February 2023
Built high-throughput ingestion pipelines processing telemetry from 40K+ telematics devices across large commercial vehicle fleets.
Deployed and operated Kubernetes clusters on GCP supporting distributed backend services.
Developed new platform features in Elixir while maintaining and gradually migrating legacy Ruby services.
Senior Backend Engineer
BlockFi
June 2020 — July 2022
Led migration of authentication infrastructure from AWS Cognito to Auth0 for a fintech platform serving 225K+ users and housing $400M+ in assets — improving reliability and security posture.
Designed and implemented fraud-prevention controls and security workflows protecting customer accounts and platform stability at scale.
Built internal tooling for user management, identity repair workflows, and operational support — reducing manual support burden by 65%.
Designed secure PII storage and handling processes compliant with financial regulatory requirements.
Mentored junior engineers and drove architecture decisions across identity and authentication services.
Senior Backend Engineer
InsideTrack
January 2018 — May 2020
Built internal analytics platform on Kubernetes processing data for 450K active students across 900+ partner universities.
Developed real-time messaging infrastructure supporting coach-to-student communication across a multi-tenant platform.
Led Ruby-to-Elixir service migration, improving throughput and reducing memory footprint across high-traffic services.
Consolidated microservice footprint from 10 to 6 services, reducing infrastructure cost and operational complexity.
Co-Founder / Engineering Lead
PopSocial
August 2015 — August 2019
Co-founded and served as technical lead; designed and built full platform architecture and backend systems from the ground up.
Scaled engineering team from 1 to 15+ engineers; established hiring, onboarding, and development workflows.
Partnered with product and design to translate roadmap requirements into technical deliverables across multiple product launches.
Senior Software Engineer
One Month
August 2015 — January 2018
Led feature development for the onemonth.com online education platform, serving thousands of learners.
Designed and implemented A/B testing infrastructure to drive data-informed product decisions; rebuilt the billing system, improving payment reliability.
Senior Software Engineer
Qualaroo
August 2014 — August 2015
Led the full rebuild of growthhackers.com in Ruby on Rails, improving performance and maintainability.
Managed 12 offshore engineers across multiple countries while driving feature development and code quality.
Built and tuned a content trending algorithm used to rank and surface platform content at scale.
SOC 2 Type II · HIPAA · ISO 27001 · IAM · MDM · Vulnerability management · Cloud security · Incident response · PII handling
Frontend
React · TailwindCSS · TypeScript · HTML · CSS
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