Work History

December 2022 - February 2025 | New York, NY

At Justworks, leadership and strategic direction were the foundations of my role as Engineering Manager, where I led two teams within Time & Attendance. I was responsible for executing key objectives by defining clear roadmaps, identifying dependencies, and ensuring timely delivery.

• Led two teams of 14 engineers, including senior, mid-level, QA, and infrastructure engineers.

• Managed the Time Tracking Integrations and the Leave & Absence teams which were responsible for Integrations between Time Tracking and other Justworks offerings as well as the PTO Service.

• Collaborated closely with the product manager and design team(UI/UX) to define OKRs, create roadmaps, set milestones, and ensure on-time delivery of projects.

• Guided the team in decomposing legacy code and addressing product limitations, enabling workweek customization and unlocking new market opportunities.

• Reviewed and approved tech proposals, spikes, and architecture designs to assure team focus on current objectives.

• Mentored and developed engineering talent, ranging from interns to senior engineers, fostering the growth of future engineering leaders.

• Introduced engineering processes within Time & Attendance that stabilized the team and enabled high performance.

• Worked with external stakeholders to identify technical dependencies and remove blockers, ensuring smooth workstreams.

• Led the development of custom integrations within Justworks products, utilizing Kafka, REST, and GraphQL APIs.

• Enhanced observability and monitoring practices, improving alerting, faster remediation, and more efficient bug triage.

• Managed the maintenance of a legacy Ruby on Rails monolith, addressing security issues while overseeing the transition of backend services to Go.

• Leveraged AI Tooling for day to day work such as OpenAI ChatGPT

November 2021 - September 2022 | New York, NY

Leaflink is a cannabis marketplace that enables vendors and dispensaries to buy and sell products through its platform. As an Engineering Manager within Logistics, I led my team in enhancing the inventory management solution, empowering vendors to accurately track and manage their products for seamless sales across the marketplace.

• Led 2 Engineering Pods of up to 12 members to successfully achieve quarterly OKRs.

• Spearheaded the development of new inventory management features for the Leaflink marketplace using Python, Django, React, and PostgreSQL.

• Collaborated with Product Managers and stakeholders to define roadmaps and set quarterly OKRs.

• Worked closely with tech leads to draft and review technical documentation, including technical proposals and spikes.

• Reviewed code and got hands dirty whenever needed to help meet deadlines

• Oversaw cross-functional collaboration with other pods and teams, identifying dependencies and addressing blockers.

• Partnered with leadership to establish and implement engineering policies and procedures.

• Collaborated with Talent Acquisition to refine and improve the hiring process.

• Led recruitment efforts, successfully hiring new engineers to expand and strengthen the team.

• Introduced a Career Growth Tracker to monitor engineers' progress and guide their career development.

• Worked one-on-one with direct reports to set personal OKRs and goals, fostering their career growth.

• Contributed to the development and enhancement of the Engineering Skills Matrix.

• Served as interim Engineering Manager for a new pod, while mentoring and coaching the incoming Associate Engineering Manager.

March 2020 - October 2021 | New York, NY

Shortly after joining M.M.LaFleur, a women's workwear brand, I led my engineering team through the challenges of the pandemic while overseeing a critical technical migration. I developed and executed our strategy to transition the backend service to Shopify and built a new single-page application in React. To address scaling concerns, I introduced Kafka to streamline data flow into Netsuite and other data centers.

• Led and mentored a team of Backend Engineers to achieve company objectives.

• Designed and implemented Kafka infrastructure using Kafka REST API, Kafka Connect, and Confluent Cloud.

• Rolled up sleeves whenever needed to support the team.

• Transitioned the company from an outdated monolithic architecture to horizontally scalable microservices using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Developed a new local development environment with Docker for improved efficiency.

• Enhanced application performance by optimizing MySQL queries and eliminating data layer bottlenecks.

• Implemented Splunk to improve data logging and monitoring.

• Introduced collaboration tools like Confluence and Lucidchart to streamline team workflows.

October 2019 - March 2020 | New York, NY

Valilly acquired previous employer Crowded and its technology.

Stayed on board to help leadership rebrand and document all proprietary technology while onboarding new engineers.

December 2018 - October 2019 | New Yorkm, NY

Crowded is an HR Tech SaaS platform specializing in enriching outdated resumes, providing hiring managers with updated and refined candidate profiles, and leveraging AI/ML to optimize search results.

As an individual contributor, I focused on developing proof-of-concepts and prototypes under tight deadlines to meet stakeholder requirements. Eventually promoted to Vice President, I scaled the engineering team to 12 engineers and led the development of a suite of HR tools that streamlined candidate searches for hiring managers. I introduced and formalized the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), collaborated with product leaders to define roadmaps, and worked closely with the CTO to budget and plan engineering initiatives.

• 30% hands-on helping the engineering team meet tight deadlines.

• Research and Development of new technology alternatives to use within the platform.

• Aligned with Product stakeholders to define roadmaps and provide high-level estimates on projects.

• Managed team of 12 engineers including software engineers, data scientists, data analysts, and QA

• Led the design, analysis, development, and delivery of innovative Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) to improve candidate search results and to create prediction models.
products and services for use in enterprise SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, on-prem, and hybrid solutions.

• Led team to create ATS data pipelines and improve search matches by leveraging Machine Learning, Graph Databases, and Elasticsearch

• Introduced new processes and policies while defining engineering SDLC.

• Got down and dirty and coded to help the development team fulfill sprint goals whenever needed.

• Data Protection Officer (DPO) for GDPR compliance.

March 2017 - December 2018 | New York, NY

Award-winning talent intelligence, acquisition, engagement, and team collaboration SaaS Platform.

• Developed and maintained a full-stack SaaS platform, recognized with TAtech's ReSIs Awards in 2017 and 2018.

• Designed and developed agnostic ETL pipelines to process over 12 million candidate resumes and loading them into various data stores

• Normalized and enriched heterogeneous data for advanced search and analytics.

• Built a real-time candidate matching system using Elasticsearch, Redis, and Neo4j.

• Developed custom full-text search functionality with Elasticsearch.

• Led platform scalability efforts by implementing memory caching with Redis, optimizing databases, and refining legacy code.

• Spearheaded the transition from a monolithic to a microservices architecture.

• Utilized RabbitMQ for messaging and asynchronous task queuing.

• Developed and scheduled CRON jobs to automate key processes.

• Integrated third-party Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) such as Greenhouse, Jobvite, and iCIMS.

• Developed and integrated internal APIs (REST & SOAP).

• Worked extensively with AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, and Elasticsearch.

• Engineered solutions using LAMP stack, Node.js microservices, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Neo4j with Cypher queries.

• Designed and optimized MySQL schemas for performance and scalability.

January 2012 - March 2017 | Brooklyn, NY

Initially hired to develop a simple booking web application for trips to and from NYC airports for one of the city's largest livery services, I soon saw the project evolve as customers embraced the convenience of bypassing long phone queues. The success of the web application led to the expansion of product features, including real-time dispatching software, an account management system, public APIs, and a booking app. These innovations contributed to the fleet’s growth from 100 affiliate drivers to over 300 within five years.

• Scaled and managed a team of 24 cross-functional employees, including five software engineers, 3 managers, account executives, and dispatchers
• Manage contracts and SOWs with Third Party Contractors for development of key features
• Introduced new roles for managing corporate accounts, accounts payable/receivable, and sales expansion
• Led technical direction by setting goals and roadmaps
• Remained 30-50% hands-on to help continue with engineering progress

January 2007 - January 2012 | Brooklyn, NY

• Developed automated dispatching software solution leveraging geolocation and balanced distribution to fleet of over 300 vehicles
• Designed and developed a custom dispatching software solution.
• Built a comprehensive accounting, payroll, and customer management system (CMS).
• Created scheduled automated data compilers to meet Taxi & Limousine Commission Audits
• Built a customer management system supporting scheduling and payment processing.
• Designed and optimized relational database architecture with MySQL.
• Developed an internal API solution for seamless integration with third-party affiliates.
• Implemented a custom vehicle tracking solution using the Google Maps API.
• Integrated FlightStats API for automatic flight status updates.
• Created a PCI-compliant online payment system for real-time transactions.
• Introduced engineering processes and policies to enhance workflow and efficiency.
• Developed a real-time customer notification and messaging system using Twilio and SendGrid APIs.

January 2005 - January 2007 | Brooklyn, NY

Online Appliance Retailer dedicated to drop shipping a wide range of kitchen appliances.

• Tech Stack: Linux, Apache, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, OsCommerce, Magento.
• Created custom e-Commerce Shopping Cart Solution using OsCommerce.
• Redesigned and developed Website with PHP, CSS, JavaScript and HTML.
• Customized admin platform to plug into shipping and credit card solutions.
• Redesigned MySQL Database to accept a more diverse line of products.
• Designed ad banners and graphics for seasonal or marketing use using Adobe Photoshop.

January 2004 - January 2005 | Brooklyn, NY

Known in the industry as the Appliance Authority, AjMadison is dedicated to selling the best lines of appliances at the best price.

• Developed and maintained marketing web pages highlighting products and seasonal sales
• Created product comparison pages written in PHP
• Designed and created web assets including graphics, web design and marketing material using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Web content management of product and inventory using CMS.
• Edited images and wrote product descriptions.