Experience

Amenity Analytics (part of Symphony)

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• V.P. R&D

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  At Amenity Analytics, I create cloud-based analytics solutions to help organisations gain actionable insights from enormous amounts of text data, using expertise in text analytics and cloud computing for efficient data analysis on a massive scale. As an Engineering leader, I am in charge of developing a cutting-edge NLP platform capable of processing massive volumes of unstructured data and extracting information, sentiments, and insights for some of the world's biggest financial institutions. Key Accomplishments: • Successfully led the transition to a serverless architecture, resulting in increased scalability and a significant reduction in operational costs. • Led the Engineering efforts in the acquisition of the company, playing a significant role in the development of a state-of-the-art NLP platform utilized by major financial institutions worldwide • Achieved significant improvements in operational efficiency by reducing Time-To-Resolution from 6 weeks to 5 days, while also enhancing data quality from 95.4% to 99.9% Show less



Reali

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Engineering

  • Jul 2020 - Jan 2022

  During hypergrowth, I drove growth and developed the engineering organisation, establishing exceptional teams across web, mobile, server, data engineering, QA, DevOps, and science domains. I led the creation of an excellent data mesh strategy, which included integrating high-volume data sources with data science and machine learning capabilities. The CEO reports to a member of the leadership team. Key Accomplishments: • Played a crucial role in securing a successful round 3 investment of $250M, demonstrating strong leadership and strategic thinking. • Successfully reconstructed the business services and data platform, improving data quality from 75% to 99.9%, driving significant business growth, and improving customer satisfaction. • Drove high-level assistance in restructuring the engineering organisation to support the company's hyper-growth goals, doubling the team size from 20 to 40 people and contributing to the overall company growth from 80 to 250 people. Show less



ezbob

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• V.P. R&D

  • Apr 2019 - Jun 2020

  I created, led, and fostered a brilliant R&D team, directing all activities from idea to deployment, including product roadmap planning, architectural design, implementation, QA, and deployment. I handled research and innovation while developing technical strategies and implementing Agile approaches such as Scrum and Kanban throughout the firm. I created ALM procedures from the ground up, including planning, development and quality assurance techniques, continuous integration, and QA automation.Key Accomplishments:• Contributed to leadership efforts in planning and managing budgets to ensure cost-effectiveness and efficient resource allocation.• Led the successful development of new products, services, and underlying platforms that enabled scaling and drove business growth.• Made critical technical stack and architecture decisions, working under tight timelines to build an exceptional engineering organization.• Led the certification of ISO27001 and GDPR standards, ensuring compliance with industry regulations Show less

• Software Engineering Group Manager

  • Aug 2018 - Apr 2019

  Disrupting FINTECH with a cutting-edge next generation loaning platformBuild and lead top talented R&D teamLead the development of a services mesh over Kubernetes, ISTIO, Elastic stack, Prometheus, etc.



NCR Corporation

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Development Manager

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2018

  I used my leadership skills to manage a worldwide team of 22 Dev and DevOps engineers, effectively completing programme increments on schedule and under budget while planning and managing resources and budgets. I oversaw several projects and improved the portfolio with new features, optimizations, automation, and uniformity. I improved the development lifecycle to save money and time by following best practises and finding process improvements. I created and implemented effective mentorship and training programmes to encourage talent retention and growth within the team. Key Accomplishments: • Directed a global team (centre of excellence) that supported 9K developers across 22 products and four time zones, ensuring high levels of productivity and successful product delivery. • Spearheaded improvements in product observability, driving growth in customer satisfaction and reduction of costs through enhanced monitoring and reporting. • Introduced advanced engineering practices and CI/CD processes, resulting in increased product quality and reduced time to market by implementing over 80% automated test coverage and automation of customer labs. Show less