Los Angeles, California, United States
- With over 24 years of experience in E-Commerce, FinTech, and EnergyTech, I thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments. My focus is on building high-performance engineering teams that are driven by purpose, ownership, and accountability. I create a culture of psychological safety, where continuous growth and mutual support are the norm. - As a technology leader and hands-on engineer, I have deep expertise in Ruby/Rails and Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView stacks. - Outside of work, I’m a dedicated father and volunteer. I also enjoy the challenges and rewards of technical SCUBA diving, cave diving, and closed-circuit rebreather diving.
GridPoint is a smart building technology leader with a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable energy future by creating a network of smart, efficient, grid-interactive buildings. - Built and mentored high-performing software engineering and quality assurance teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning. - Integrated software and firmware teams, enabling faster product iterations and seamless cross-functional collaboration. - Helped build up the firmware team and integrated software engineering organization with firmware engineering. - Successfully delivered MVP and MSP of a cutting-edge platform within an aggressive timeline while building and scaling engineering teams. - Launched a platform that unlocked scaling, enabled customer and installer self-service, and cut installation and support costs. - Introduced support for the new generation of hardware products, reducing installation costs by 40%. - Integrated AI tools and refined engineering processes to improve workflow efficiency and team productivity.
- Joined GridPoint’s CTO to build a new engineering team and lead the development of a re-envisioned platform designed to modernize and scale GridPoint’s technology. - Built and scaled a 20+ person engineering organization, establishing core engineering and product development practices. - Reorganized the team into smaller, focused groups to improve execution speed, ownership, and management efficiency. - Led a multi-functional team to design and build the hardware installation process for both web and iOS platforms.
Nomad is the only comprehensive real estate service focused on bringing a personalized experience to home buying across Europe and the Middle East. Through the use of technology and local service, Nomad equips home buyers with the confidence to buy their best home. The company aims to create the simplest, most personalized home buying process from search to financing, to signing. All under one roof. - Built fully-remote in-house engineering team from zero to 19 people (backend, frontend, QA, data science, DevOps); - Fully automated data pipeline for listings supply that enabled customer-facing and internal tools as well as data science team; - Built supply automation tools as IC with Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, Kafka, Elastic, GCP; - Rolled out Apple hardware purchasing across 5 different countries; - Rolled out hardware policy and device management for all company-owned hardware; - Improved compliance and security across the company; - Developed cybersecurity and password management trainings and policies for employees; - Developed GDPR compliance practices.
I have worked as Divemaster on weekends as a challenge for myself to experience high responsibility and high touch customer service environment to break some introvert-ness. - Assisting with open water certification classes; - Teaching TuneUp and Discover Scuba Diving programs; - Leading Discover Local Diving and Guided Dives programs.
PeerStreet is a first-of-its-kind online platform for investing in real estate debt. The platform represents a two-sided marketplace that, on one side, provides hassle-free access to an asset class that was previously inaccessible to individual investors: short-term, real estate backed loans. On the other side of the marketplace, PeerStreet connects a vetted network of private lenders with diverse sources of capital to help fuel their growth and bring lending back to their local communities. The company’s vision is to align the interests of this ecosystem—from lenders and investors to borrowers and the local communities they represent. - Built senior engineering off-site team responsible for most of the development; - Managed the off-site team with up to 10 engineers; - Managed the hiring process for off-site candidates; - Led application platform development; - Introduced the business logic framework for better code unification, organization, encapsulation, and maintainability which streamlined and sped up development; - Led initial effort of migrating to microservices architecture; - Designed microservices development processes and practices; - Built internal libraries to facilitate faster development of services; - Learned and introduced GraphQL, Hanami-rb, and dry-rb into the stack; - R&D of various technologies and patterns including Elixir, Kafka and Event Sourcing.
Acquired by Tradesy. - Worked in close collaboration with designer and executives to define the future of the product; - Defined application design and developed new features; - Automated infrastructure and application deployment.