San Ramon, California, United States
I turn engineering organizations into revenue-driving engines. Over 20 years, I've led engineering, data, and technology organizations at Progressive Leasing (PROG Holdings), Backcountry, and Gap Inc. — building platforms from the ground up, scaling teams globally, and delivering digital transformations that directly accelerate business growth. The consistent pattern: I take underperforming or early-stage technology organizations and turn them into high-velocity, product-driven teams that deliver measurable results. At Backcountry, I joined alongside a new CEO and CTO with a $1B revenue target set for 3 years — technology transformation helped reach it in 18 months. At Gap, I built one of the largest homegrown e-commerce platforms in US retail from scratch over 16 years, and when a Cyber Monday outage exposed fragility in checkout, my team redesigned it into a universal system that ran on 30 servers instead of 200 while handling 6x the volume — with zero downtime. At Progressive Leasing, I drove double-digit YoY GMV growth as Head of Engineering, then took on enterprise data transformation — building a unified, AI-ready data platform that's shifting the organization from reactive reporting to proactive intelligence. What I consistently deliver: → Revenue acceleration — every technology initiative ties back to GMV, conversion, or margin improvement → P&L discipline — full budget accountability across people, infrastructure, and vendor contracts, consistently delivering 5-10% annual cost optimization through modernization, consolidation, and contract renegotiation → Platform transformation under pressure — cloud migrations in 5 months that peer teams took 2+ years to complete, delivered ahead of peak season → Global team scaling — engineering orgs grown 3x-7x within 12 months while maintaining culture, quality, and retention → Omni-channel enablement — loyalty, POS, universal payments, headless commerce, and integrated customer experiences → AI/ML & data strategy — building the foundations that make enterprise AI operational, not theoretical I lead global teams of 150+ engineers across the US, South America, Pakistan, and India. I care deeply about engineering culture, developing talent, and building environments where teams deliver their best work. If you're looking for a technology leader who measures success in business outcomes — let's connect.
Took on enterprise data transformation to build the AI-ready foundation that the engineering modernization made possible — evolving from reactive reporting to a proactive intelligence platform driving revenue growth, risk optimization, and personalization. Restructured data organization within 60 days — consolidated from four teams to two, reducing handoffs by ~50% and accelerating ownership and speed. Driving the design of a unified Snowflake-based data platform with canonical data models, standardized semantic layers, and feature-ready datasets — enabling scalable near real-time analytics and laying the foundation for enterprise AI. Championing embedded AI/ML decisioning across Sales, Marketing, and Operations — shifting from isolated experimentation to production-grade, workflow-integrated intelligence.
Drove double-digit YoY GMV growth through platform modernization, agile transformation, and hybrid cloud migration — transforming how the engineering organization delivers business value. Transformed delivery model from project-based to product-based within 90 days — established 5 domain-focused product teams aligned to business verticals. Scaled engineering from 30 to 80+ developers within 12 months while building a culture of ownership and accountability. Led the migration of 70% of legacy on-prem workloads to a Kubernetes-based container platform with automated CI/CD pipelines — improving deployment success rate to 95% and reducing operational overhead. Drove a hybrid Buy+Build architecture strategy that reduced PCI footprint by 80% and achieved PCI 4.0 — introducing modern SaaS components alongside custom services to accelerate speed to market while optimizing vendor spend through contract consolidation and renegotiation. Reduced overall tech footprint by 15% through application rationalization.
Joined alongside a new CEO and CTO with a mandate to accelerate e-commerce growth and ready the technology for omni-channel expansion. The CEO's target was $1B revenue in 3 years — technology transformation helped reach it in 18 months. Led a complete technology transformation — taking an organization that delivered 3 projects per year and turning it into a product-driven engine delivering 20+ initiatives annually. Scaled engineering from 30 to 200+ developers in under 12 months. Built 5 domain-aligned product teams (Merchandising, CX, ERP/OMS, Fulfillment, Customer Marketing/Loyalty). Managed full technology P&L across headcount, infrastructure,and SaaS contracts — delivering consistent annual cost optimization through vendor consolidation, contract renegotiation, and platform modernization while scaling the organization 7x. Led the re-architecture of customer experience from monolith to headless commerce (Next.js), working with the architecture team to design an API gateway middleware layer that decoupled front-end from back-end services — improving site performance and enabling 3x faster feature releases. Launched a customer loyalty program — reversing prior failed attempts — improving retention and repeat purchase rates. Rolled out fully integrated POS (Oracle Store) in under 6 months with end-to-end loyalty, returns, and omni-channel integration — the foundation for retail expansion to 6-10 stores. Built architecture team of 3 to standardize tech stack and enforce architecture review across the platform.
Gap’s Ecommerce is a home-grown product and is organically built over the last 15 years serving customers across the globe including US, Canada, UK, Japan and EU markets. Led engineering for Gap's homegrown e-commerce platform — serving Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta across the US, Canada, UK, Japan, and EU. After a critical Cyber Monday outage in 2016, led the team to redesign checkout into a truly universal system across all global markets. The result: next peak season ran on 30 servers instead of 200, handling 6x the previous year's volume with zero downtime. Led the architecture and execution of a hybrid dual-cloud migration (Azure compute + Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for DB tier) in 5 months — partnering with the architecture team to design for horizontal scaling and data residency — when peer teams had spent 2+ years on front-end migration alone. Delivered by early October, well ahead of peak season. Launched Apple Pay for web and mobile, driving measurable conversion and GMV growth. Led delivery of a single-page application (SPA) checkout that improved conversion by 5% after modernizing the checkout back-end. Drove the design and delivery of universal omni-channel payments infrastructure spanning web, mobile, in-store transactions, loyalty points, and cross-channel returns. Led EU business migration to Salesforce Commerce platform in partnership with architecture team — zero revenue loss. Drove DevOps transformation and cloud adoption. Managed 25 direct reports and 120+ indirect across US, Brazil, and India.
Grew from individual contributor to engineering leader over 12 years — progressing through hands-on development, solution architecture, and team leadership roles while maintaining deep platform ownership throughout. One of the original builder team of Gap's e-commerce platform — one of the largest homegrown e-commerce systems in US retail. Architected and built core systems with a growing team across Buy, Checkout, Payments (including payment gateway integrations), Order Management, Personalization, and Customer Profile. Co-designed with the architecture team the custom business rules engine and loyalty applications that became the backbone of a platform serving millions of customers across 5 brands and 6 global markets. Co-architected the universality platform with the broader engineering and architecture teams — enabling multi-brand launches (Athleta, Hill City) without platform rebuilds and turning architecture decisions into a business growth accelerator. Led Order Management System implementation, Built warehouse systems for supply chain and warehouse management and drove the build of MDM tools for Product and Catalog data management.