Building distributed systems for fintech & capital markets

Working on DerivativeEDGE, a cloud-native SaaS trading and risk management platform serving banks and financial institutions for FX hedging and derivatives operations.

• Implemented distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) across a multi-service pricing pipeline, identifying the primary latency bottleneck (~300s) and giving leadership actionable data to prioritize optimization.
• Resolved a critical multi-tenant data isolation defect involving token caching and threading issues, eliminating a compliance risk for regulated financial clients.
• Designed real-time status notification architecture using event sourcing (Marten) and messaging patterns (Rebus), replacing blind polling with live visibility for risk analysts.

Led two core product teams within Snap-On's Dealer-FX One Platform, a cloud-native SaaS suite serving major automotive OEMs and dealerships across North America.

• Led the GM My Rewards integration, managing both the core team and additional contractors — securing Dealer-FX as GM's preferred vendor across North America.
• Built and deployed new APIs using AWS SAM-based Node.js services with Sequelize ORM for Purchase Order and Parts Inventory modules.
• Managed a team of 4 developers and 2 QA engineers, improving delivery speed by ~20% through better sprint execution and DevOps collaboration.

Technical and team leadership for the Service Fusion SaaS platform rewrite using Ardalis Clean Architecture, managing a team of 4 developers.

• Delivered 10DLC messaging compliance transformation — one of the first full features shipped on the rewritten microservices architecture.
• Supported the data warehouse initiative via Decodable and AWS Lambda, then led the team in delivering the reporting microservice to early adopters within 2 months.

Contributed to the Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) product suite, bringing microservices experience as the department transitioned to cloud-native architecture.

• Delivered key microservices for the EPM platform and contributed to migrating a legacy product to a multi-tenant SaaS model.
• Stepped up to support the DevOps team in migrating from Azure DevOps to GitHub, working across Terraform and Kubernetes to redesign CI/CD pipelines.

Led backend development for the FullFocus Viewer, an FDA-cleared digital AI pathology device.

• Led the rewrite of the FullFocus Viewer backend to .NET 6 in a microservice architecture.
• Implemented Python (Flask) microservices for audit trails required for FDA certification.
• Played a key role in achieving FDA certification — the first FDA-cleared AI-powered digital pathology platform for primary diagnosis.

Led the Core Loan Systems team at PayBright (acquired by Affirm), driving modernization of loan processing infrastructure and data analytics.

• Rewrote core loan systems into .NET Core microservices, improving scalability and maintainability.
• Led ETL/ELT workflows using Python, Azure Data Factory, and Node.js for data warehouse operations.
• Built BI reports, dashboards, and KPIs on the Looker platform for stakeholders.