• Owned MCP and Public API programs end-to-end, designing agent-safe read/write access, production API surfaces, and OAuth scopes for controlled access to StartProto data.
• Led FedRAMP Moderate readiness across GovCloud architecture, AWS evidence, boundary decisions, TLS/KMS/secrets reviews, Orca/Datadog integration, and assessor-ready policy artifacts.
• Architected AI assistant capabilities and modernized observability across Datadog, Langfuse, and Bedrock traces, hardening streaming, conversation recovery, routing, and production debugging.
• Introduced ephemeral frontend/backend environments and E2E testing, creating branch previews, release PR workflows, Playwright coverage, and production health checks across frontend, backend, and testing repos.

• Established YouLend's US engineering presence and supported local business operations.
• Delivered hands-on feature development, maintenance, and production support across the lending platform.

• Automated political candidate research by replacing local scripts with event-driven serverless architecture.
• Increased service reliability with 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.

• Founded DemoFox, an AI-powered enterprise social video collaboration startup.

• Managed engineering managers and staff engineers through architecture proposals for features such as full-text search.
• Added core domain model lifecycle events to the application event bus, improving long-term architecture flexibility.

• Accelerated customer time-to-value with Keyword Maps, a novel aggregate transcript visualization.
• Mentored engineers into senior, staff, principal, and engineering manager roles through tailored growth plans and coaching.
• Revitalized a department-wide legacy AngularJS upgrade with custom monorepo tooling and Cypress visual baseline testing.

• Drafted performance-improvement and career-development plans, coaching team members through individualized goals.

• Directly increased same-day cash advance volume through a redesigned signup flow.
• Architected core product transition from multi-tenant ASP.NET to single-tenant SPAs backed by multi-tenant microservices.

• Developed and maintained BrandComply, a specialized brand-license-management CMS platform.

• Developed systems for the US Army Civil Information Management program with the US Army Research Laboratory.

Concentration: Technology Commercialization (TI:GER)

• Designed, developed, and launched The Cosplay Herald, a niche news platform for the competitive cosplay community.