Technology executive (CIO/CTO) and hands-on engineering leader with deep experience building and scaling product engineering, platforms, and operations for payment-adjacent and high-availability services. Led organizations up to 70+ engineers across software engineering, architecture, data, security, SRE and internal IT, including board-level accountability and cross-functional partnership with Product, Risk and Compliance. Proven at taking systems from “zero to reliable,” scaling teams fast, and putting in place operating models that deliver consistently (release management, on-call/operations, quality). EMBA; certified board member.