Built and scaled the data engineering organization from the ground up, recruiting, hiring, and managing managers to grow two high-performing teams of eight engineers; provided hands-on mentorship and implemented performance management, talent development, and succession planning programs that prepared multiple team members for senior technical leadership roles while thriving in environments of high ambiguity. • Drove the multi-year strategic technology roadmap and technical vision for the Product Engineering organization and Product Architecture, in close partnership with Product, Operations, Compliance, and C-Suite executive leadership, aligning Product Strategy with business objectives and delivering measurable impact with performance metrics. • Led the design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and lakehouse patterns using AWS Glue, Athena, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and S3, enabling advanced verification workflows and medallion-style data refinement. • Directed the agile development of a scalable state license crawling and data integration framework that increased scraper build velocity by 70% and accelerated provider MDM onboarding. • Spearheaded the evaluation, selection, and production deployment of AI-powered intelligent web scraping technologies for state license data acquisition, enhancing data ingestion efficiency, accuracy, coverage, and scalability. • Led the strategic rebuild of the Provider Network Adequacy platform into a horizontally scalable, agent-based system using RabbitMQ, AWS Batch, and Python. • Established enterprise data governance and security strategy with production modules for fuzzy matching, deduplication, and lineage tracking to ensure NCQA/HIPAA compliance and data integrity across the B2B SaaS platform. • Led organizational change management and platform transformation initiatives, modernizing the entire data ecosystem from legacy Airflow to a fully AWS-native, event-driven architecture while maintaining zero downtime, reducing monthly costs by $10k, and achieving significant technical debt reduction. • Championed the engineering team’s CI/CD DevOps overhaul that decreased deployment cycles in release management by 65%, driving delivery excellence, engineering velocity, and SDLC automation. • Built and scaled the enterprise data and verification platform that powered Andros’ high-growth B2B SaaS credentials verification solution, underpinning revenue growth from $5M to $20M and enabling a 4x increase in operational throughput without proportional headcount growth.

Sole technology leader who architected and delivered a cloud-native SEO/search platform as a service for global media leaders, including Yahoo, Netflix, The New York Times, and Hearst Magazines. Designed and implemented the full-stack, event-driven system for large-scale web crawling and data analysis. • Architected and delivered a cloud-native microservices event-driven SaaS platform as a service for global media leaders including Yahoo, Netflix, The New York Times, and Hearst Magazines. • Designed and implemented a high-throughput, distributed event-driven architecture using ZeroMQ that powered an auto-scaling cloud-native crawler processing hundreds of millions of pages monthly. • Built and rebuilt the core SEO crawler and analysis engine using AWS, Elasticsearch, EMR, and MapReduce to process tens of millions of pages. • Defined the technology roadmap and architectural standards, significantly improving platform scalability and reliability. • Advised major media companies on SEO strategies, including JavaScript and performance optimizations.

Provided enterprise architecture leadership for Fortune 500, government and media clients, designing scalable search, content, personalization, and real-time streaming systems. • Architected recommendation engine for NBC’s Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary App. • Developed global-scale content management system for The Walt Disney Company. • Built AWS cloud-native IoT event ingestion platform 20k msg/s, 1MB/s, and 500TB/year for Johnson Health Tech. • Analyzed and optimized backend event/log processing systems for Travelocity using Hadoop and SOLR. • Designed and implemented a multi-region, cloud-native log storage and analysis system for a Canadian government project using the ELK Stack.

Directed software development for large-scale SEO and content analysis platforms, building teams and infrastructure to support high-volume web crawling and optimization. Led architecture, implementation, and remote team expansion. • Established a remote development office in Utah, staffing a full engineering team to supplement NYC operations. • Built SEO optimization platforms processing tens of millions of web pages monthly, analyzing content, applying SEO rules, and identifying patterns of content failure. • Architected SEO analysis platform using Perl, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, SOLR, and later Elasticsearch. • Acted as a key technical advisor to the CTO, developing custom analytical tools and data models.

Java 2 Developer

Sun Microsystems

1998