SUMMARY

Staff-level engineer focused on backend systems and architecture, leading cross-team initiatives and shaping system-wide technical direction.

Improves system design to enable faster iteration, better observability, and greater team autonomy.

Mentors engineers and strengthens teams by raising engineering standards.

EXPERIENCE

Exante, Remote (U.S.) — Senior Software Engineer

2025

Led architecture for core systems in a small, fast-moving team.

Designed and implemented a two-way integration to synchronize internal data models with payment platforms including Stripe.

Identified and drove remediation of key architectural issues, improving system reliability and long-term maintainability.

Skillshare, Remote (U.S.) — Senior Staff Engineer

2019 - 2024

Led engineering for Marketplace, Payments, Memberships and Growth teams. Owned critical revenue systems including checkout, payment integrations, subscriptions, and more.

Defined architectural direction for a transition from a monolithic backend to a federated GraphQL service architecture. Established system-wide patterns for observability, debugging improvements, reliability and cross-team visibility.

Led re-architecture of the logged-in home experience, enabling faster experimentation and improved personalization at scale.

Vimeo, New York, NY — Senior Search Engineer

2013 - 2017

Rebuilt onsite search infrastructure, migrating from SOLR to Elasticsearch to improve relevance, stability and performance.

Built RESTful endpoints for a dynamic SPA search UI and optimized CI pipelines to cut build and deploy times.

Kindling, New York, NY — Software Engineer

2011 - 2013

Architected social innovation features and integrated SSO & LDAP authentication.

Arc90, New York, NY — Software Engineer

2010 - 2013

Designed and built RESTful API and JavaScript front end for client’s web applications.

LANGUAGES

Python, PHP, Typescript, SQL, RegEx, CSS

TECHNOLOGIES

GraphQL, MySQL, Git, RESTful APIs, Redis, Docker, React, Elasticsearch

CORE STRENGTHS

API design,

system architecture, distributed systems, observability

EDUCATION

SUNY New Paltz

Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy (Focus on Emerging Ethics)