Feb 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Afterpay -> Acquired by Square/Block for $29 billion. This was largest acquisition in internet history at the time. I supported Post-M&A processes, including partnerships with Security, IT, and Product organizations.

Jul 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Built Afterpay's entire North American Platform Engineering function from scratch. Managed an international team across the US and Australia.
• Swiss Army knife across both technical and organizational needs across company's high growth phase.
• Supported a stellar team to design, implement, and rollout tooling to modernize Afterpay infrastructure
• Independently sourced, recruited, closed, 10+ senior and staff level talent from personal networks in first year alone at market peak.
• Worked closely with recruiting to define platform-specific eng interview processes.
• Defined interview processes for, and interviewed, managers and directors for Platform and company at large.
• Shipped company-wide RFC / design-doc process, as a key driver of the Technical Architecture Group.
• Defined Platform-wide processes for OKRs, recruiting, and performance management.
• Close working relationship with Security to support our compliance and ability to transact.
• Worked with leadership to define organizational structure over time.
• Afterpay was acquired in 2021 by Jack Dorsey’s Block for $30 billion - the largest transaction in internet history at the time, (deal size exceeding WhatsApp, Slack, Instagram, etc etc). It was an honor to be a small part in that story.

Mar 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York City, New York

• Team: Developer Infrastructure
• Project: Next-generation cloud development platforms.
• Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Python + internal stuff.
• Customers: 1000+ person eng org.

Apr 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Gusto is a leading Payroll, Benefits, and HR Platform. The team has cultivated a rare culture of empathy combined with strong technical talent.
• Team: Infrastructure (Founding member)
• Projects: Continuous integration, testing, artifact management, local development environments, other developer infrastructure
• Stack: docker/docker-compose, AWS (EC2, S3, KMS, SQS, etc), Buildkite, Jenkins, Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Bash, other stuff.

Mar 2015 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Feb 2014 – Feb 2018 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

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Jun 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco, CA

• Growth engineer. AB tests, mobile email suggestions, recommendation emails, NUX contact importers. Code was running on most Twitter platforms.
• HackWeek winner for #birdcall, a recruiting product based on Twitter's own userbase.

Aug 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Seattle, WA

• Amazon Identity Services. Managed core customer identity information (names, addresses, phone numbers) for all Amazon users, including Customer Master Service, Amazon's very first service carved out from the original C++ monolith.
• AAA project - locked down Amazon's SOA by adding service-to-service auth and an encrypted middleware layer in the RPC stack. Owned AAA's onboarding UI, which was one of Amazon's first Ruby on Rails apps.
• Two fully-granted patent awards.

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• SDE Intern with Identity Services team

May 2008 – Aug 2008 · 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

• SDE Intern with Apollo team under Builder Tools. First integration of AWS S3 with Apollo, Amazon's large-scale distributed deployment system.