New York City Metropolitan Area
10+ years experience leading high performance teams in engineering, product, AI, machine learning and data. Successfully founded and exited startup (acquisition by market leader). Hired, managed and grown organizations of 75+ including director level reports. Built and led teams across the US, UK, Germany, Ukraine, and India. Experience supporting large scale products ($300M-$1B in net revenue) and launching 0 to 1 products with global partners such as PayPal. Passionate about growing and mentoring leaders. Proponent of metric driven fast iteration product development. Continuous learner.
Leading engineering for Rippling's finance app product suite (corporate cards, payments, travel, expense management, accounting integrations) across NYC and Bangalore. Launched multiple zero-to-one products in payments and travel while owning platform architecture across the full stack
Led Paxos' largest engineering org: 75 engineers across product and platform, responsible for customer-facing products powering regulated stablecoins, crypto trading, and settlement infrastructure. Clients included PayPal, Mercado Libre, Nubank, Interactive Brokers, and TD. Settlement services processed hundreds of billions in transactions. Owned end-to-end delivery across tokenization (BUSD with a max market cap of $23B, PayPal Dollar, Pax Gold, Paxos Dollar), trading, banking, and crypto infrastructure.
Led a 40-person org of AI engineers, data engineers, and data scientists, with cross-functional oversight of a 40-person customer acquisition technology team. Drove an 8% revenue increase for the second-largest flight booking platform in North America by rebuilding ML and real-time data infrastructure powering booking decisions. Full migration from monolith to microservices. Hired and developed directors, managers, and senior ICs across the US, Ukraine, and India. Built career frameworks and an AI/data strategy that scaled to billions of data points daily across multi-cloud and on-prem
Built Tripcombi, a flight search platform that identified arbitrage opportunities in airline pricing worldwide. Hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors. Accepted into Microsoft Ventures Accelerator (M12). Raised capital, built the team, and led the company from founding through acquisition by Fareportal Inc. in 2016. Architected the platform in 2 years using Scala, JavaScript, Angular, Cassandra, Python, Spark, and ELK. Built real-time data injection for global flight pricing and a machine learning algorithm serving best-price combinations from 5-10 billion data points daily
Designed and developed the next-generation front-end application for the media site