Summary
Work Experience
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2025
YouLend
Lead Engineer
Mar. 2025 - Feb. 2026
Tech Stack: Angular, TypeScript, Asp.Net, C#, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS.- Established YouLend's first US-based engineering team.
- Supported US business operations via hands-on feature development, maintenance, and support.
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2024
Branch Politics
CTO
Dec. 2024 - Mar. 2025
Tech Stack: NextJS, React, Express.js, Feathers.js, TypeScript, Node.js, OpenAI, MongoDB, Serverless Stack, Heroku, and AWS.- Automated political candidate research process by replacing local scripts with event-driven serverless architecture.
- Increased service reliability by introducing ephemeral environments for end-to-end testing in temporarily provisioned environments.
- Optimized cloud compute costs by migrating applications from Heroku to AWS and archiving unused resources.
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2023
DemoFox
Founder & CEO
Mar. 2023 - Sep. 2024
Atlanta, Georgia
Tech Stack: Angular, Tailwind CSS, NestJS, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, OpenAI, Serverless Framework, and AWS.- Founded DemoFox, an AI-powered enterprise social video collaboration startup.
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2021
UserTesting
Director of Engineering
Aug. 2021 - Feb. 2023
Chamblee, Georgia
Tech Stack: Angular, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, MySQL, Cloudformation, and AWS.- Led 3-team, 15-person Test Results engineering organization.
- Directly managed and mentored engineering managers and staff engineers through the architecture proposal process for new features such as full-text search.
- Empowered future architecture flexibility by adding core domain model lifecycle events to application event bus.
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2019
UserTesting (continued)
Senior Manager, Engineering
Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2021
Chamblee, Georgia
- Accelerated customer time-to-value with Keyword Maps, a novel aggregate transcript visualization.
- Guided engineers’ career growth, mentoring them into senior, staff, principal, and engineering manager roles through tailored development plans and coaching.
- Revitalized department-wide legacy AngularJS upgrade by introducing custom monorepo tooling.
- Improved design system release velocity with Cypress visual baseline integration testing.
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2018
Kabbage
Software Development Manager
Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2019
Atlanta, Georgia
Tech Stack: Angular, TypeScript, Asp.Net, C#, SQL Server, Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS.- Managed two teams of software and QA engineers responsible for the marketing website and signup funnel.
- Drafted performance improvement and career development plans.
- Coached team members through individualized plans and tracked improvement.
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2015
Kabbage (continued)
Senior Software Engineer
Jan. 2015 - Apr. 2018
Atlanta, Georgia
Tech Stack: AngularJS, JavaScript, Django, Python, SQL Server, Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS.- Directly increased same-day cash advance volume through redesigned signup flow.
- Architected core product transition from multi-tenant ASP.NET to single-tenant Single Page Applications back by multi-tenant microservices.
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2014
Octane5 International
Django Developer
Apr. 2014 - Dec. 2014
Alpharetta, Georgia
Tech Stack: JavaScript, Django, Python, and PostgreSQL.- Developed and maintained BrandComply, a specialized brand license management CMS platform
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2013
Veloxiti, Inc
Engineer
Jul. 2013 - Apr. 2014
Alpharetta, Georgia
Tech Stack: Play Framrwork and Java.- Developed systems for the US Army Civil Information Managment program with the US Army Research Laboratory.
Education
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2023
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Business Administration
2020 - 2023
Atlanta, Georgia
Concentration: Technology Commercialization (TI:GER)
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2013
Georgia Southern University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2010 - 2013
Statesboro, Georgia
Side Projects
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2025
Aug. 2025 - Sep. 2025
Tech stack: NextJS, React, Tailwind CSS, Sanity CMS, and Vercel.- Designed, developed, and launched The Cosplay Herald, a niche news platform for the competitive cosplay community.