Jul 2022 – Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Leading engineering transformation at Trinet Zenefits by defining and executing a multi-year strategy to decouple the payroll services from a legacy monolith into a scalable micro-services architecture. This initiative accelerated feature delivery by 35% and reduced Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) by 40% through enhanced fault isolation, observability frameworks, and shift-left testing. Championed CI/CD adoption, automated testing, and monitoring solutions, improving deployment frequency. Partner closely with platform services, infrastructure, DBAs, and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless transitions and long-term scalability.

Jan 2019 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• I manage the critical Core Payroll application responsible for our small-medium businesses to calculate and pay their employees and taxes on time.
• My responsibilities are:
• 1) Manage a team of full-stack engineers.
• 2) Partner with Product Management in developing roadmap and strategy.
• 3) Coordinate with cross pod teams for complex feature deliveries.
• 4) Review architecture/design/code and hands-on contribution.
• 5) Build the team as required by hiring the right talent and coaching/mentoring.

Aug 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Oct 2014 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Designed and delivered scalable, config-driven, high-performance identity verification APIs integrated with mission-critical money movement workflows processing over 100s of transactions per sec.
• Successfully migrated complex fraud detection logic from a monolithic architecture to modern RESTful microservices, reducing deployment time by 60% and significantly improving system maintainability.
• Developed a proactive monitoring and alerting framework for compliance APIs that improved operational visibility and reduced incident response time by 45%—solution recognized by PayPal's CTO as a model for platform resilience.
• Led compliance modernisation initiatives across financial risk systems, improving scalability, audit readiness, and alignment with evolving regulatory standards (GDPR, AML). Collaborated with product, legal, and regulatory stakeholders to translate complex requirements into technical specifications.

Jun 2010 – Sep 2014 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Led the international rollout of PayPal Credit services, enabling expansion into new markets and contributing to global user acquisition and business growth; fully integrated credit products into the PayPal platform and ensured seamless servicing for end users.

Oct 2007 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Developed and tested batch processing solutions for credit card account statements and reward redemption workflows; designed the data model to support reliable storage and retrieval of transaction details.

Dec 2005 – Sep 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos