Engineering Leader • Builder • Open Source Contributor
Engineering leader and open-source contributor with more than 20+ years of experience building distributed systems, data platforms, and mission-critical applications. I have spent my career helping organizations modernize platforms, scale engineering teams, and deliver technology solutions that create measurable business value.
My passion lies in solving difficult technical problems, simplifying complex systems, and building products that improve customer outcomes. I enjoy working at the intersection of technology, business, and execution—where ideas become products and products create meaningful impact.
Throughout my career, I have led initiatives involving event-driven architectures, streaming platforms, observability, payments, workflow automation, and large-scale data processing. I am equally comfortable leading teams, defining architecture, working directly with customers, and contributing code.
I am particularly interested in opportunities where technology can transform industries such as Financial Technology (FinTech), Retail Technology, Healthcare Information Systems, and AI-powered products.
What I Bring
20+ years of software engineering experience
Hands-on builder who enjoys turning ideas into production systems
Proven leadership across architecture, delivery, and operations
Deep expertise in distributed systems and event-driven architecture
Strong background in FinTech and regulated industries
Open-source contributor and community advocate
Experience building engineering productivity solutions
Ability to translate business challenges into practical technical solutions
Strong mentoring, hiring, and team-building experience
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-moving startup environments
Led modernization initiatives for payment control, payment processing, and cash management platforms.
Key areas of focus:
ISO 20022 migration and modernization
Event-driven architecture using Kafka and MongoDB
Payment processing modernization
Observability and operational excellence
Goldman Sachs
Senior and Lead Engineer
March 2019 – May 2025
Led engineering initiatives focused on observability, platform engineering, onboarding systems, and streaming infrastructure.
Highlights:
Built large-scale observability platforms supporting hundreds of engineering teams
Led modernization of enterprise logging and monitoring systems
Delivered Kafka-based streaming solutions used across multiple business units
Drove reliability engineering and operational excellence programs
Partnered closely with business and engineering leadership to deliver measurable outcomes
Priceline.com – Senior Software Engineer – New York
Oct 2017 – Mar 2019
Architected and delivered a Kafka-based event streaming platform processing 30+ billion messages daily, including multi-tenant onboarding, real-time observability, and cloud-native integrations with Google BigQuery and Bigtable.
MarkLogic – Senior Consultant – New York
Jan 2016 – Aug 2017
Designed and implemented enterprise search and discovery solutions using MarkLogic, RDF knowledge graphs, SPARQL, and ontology-driven semantic search, enabling context-aware information retrieval across large healthcare and financial datasets.
Healthcare information systems that improve patient outcomes
AI-powered products that create measurable business value
Developer platforms that help engineering teams move faster
My goal is to help build products that matter, mentor the next generation of engineers, and contribute to organizations where technology creates lasting impact.