Experience

withco

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Withco empowers small, local businesses to become property owners so that they obtain the control, intergenerational wealth, and permanence only afforded through ownership. • Worked alongside product and underwriting teams to enhance our underwriting platform, resulting in the streamlined assessment of small businesses and real estate properties • Enhanced our data warehouse by incorporating information from Cherre and Google Places, providing the team with valuable information to support informed underwriting decisions • Implemented integration of our underwriting platform with Plaid for banking data and with Rutter for accounting data • Partnered closely with the Marketing team to integrate onboarding channels such as Meta, Google, • • LinkedIn, and Spotify, facilitating effective outreach and engagement strategies • Engaged with the product team to refine our onboarding workflow, leading to improved conversion rates and heightened customer engagement Show less



LiftForward

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Engineering

  • Nov 2018 - Feb 2022

  LiftForward specializes in providing innovative financial solutions and technology platforms that empower businesses to offer consumer credit and financing options, enhancing customer engagement and driving growth. • Collaboratively led the engineering team, overseeing its expansion from 3 to 9 engineers Elevated team productivity by promoting the adoption of pair programming and test-driven development • Played a key role in spearheading the creation of the Device-as-a-Service API, enabling seamless integration of merchant commerce applications with diverse banking systems to facilitate global consumer financing solutions • Developed customized white-label e-commerce storefronts for prominent merchants such as Microsoft, Apple, Walmart, and others, featuring integrated customer financing payment options Led the technical aspects of the UK Xbox All Access device upgrade initiative, successfully integrating it with the Klarna platform • Designed and developed our virtual card integration with Marqeta, streamlining integration with major merchants such as Amazon, BestBuy, Microsoft, and Gamestop Show less



VTS

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Co-Founder and CTO

  • Aug 2011 - Nov 2018

  As CTO, I scaled the company from seed to Series C stage backed by Trinity Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, and Insight Venture Partners. VTS is the world's leading asset management, leasing, and marketing platform for the commercial real estate industry. The cloud-based SaaS platform centralizes leasing data for large landlords, currently tracking 10+ billion square feet of commercial real estate globally. More than 2/3rds of class A office buildings in the US run on VTS. • Led the development of the VTS application while overseeing the hiring and training of the initial engineering team • Oversaw the growth of our engineering team from 1 to over 60 engineers much of which without a full time recruiter • Set the technical direction of the VTS platform while empowering the engineering team to make key decisions along the way • Collaborated closely with the product team to establish and align delivery objectives for our product roadmap • Implemented daily production releases using Continuous Delivery and Test-Driven Development for new features and bug fixes • Led the technical initiative to transition the front-end from predominantly JQuery to Angular.js • Developed an engineering career ladder, including compensation bands without the benefit of an HR department • Guided the team in formulating and iteratively enhancing our fundamental engineering values • Mentored engineers and managers at all levels resulting in nearly zero attrition • Worked alongside other engineers contributing to development efforts even as the team grew substantially larger • Facilitated the merger of VTS and Hightower resulting in a single cohesive company Show less



We Shop

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Mar 2009 - Aug 2011

  WeShop provided customers with excellent product offers tailored to their preferences, derived from their consumer purchase history extracted from their email inbox • Led an 8-member team in the development of the WeShop platform. • Engineered a daily deal system to deliver targeted emails using consumer purchase history and Facebook likes • Architected an email syncing framework to identify and extract customer purchase data from IMAP and POP3 email accounts, subsequently storing it across S3, MySQL, and ElasticSearch • Integrated with the Shopify e-commerce platform to enable streamlined automation of order and fulfillment processing Show less



Goldman Sachs

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President

  • Mar 2005 - Mar 2009

  GS Securities Lending lends securities from their portfolio to external parties for a fee. This service aids investors in short selling and other strategies while enabling GS to optimize its holdings and generate additional revenue. • Served as a technical lead for the development of an asynchronous multithreaded system for Accruals and Interest Calculation • Functioned as a tech lead in building a service for booking Securities Lending Contracts and Activities • Implemented Securities Lending financial securities lookup service • Developed core infrastructure components and best practices for a rebuild of legacy Securities Lending infrastructure spearheading the use of Spring and Hibernate Show less



Tallan

• Software Developer

  • 2000 - 2005