Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr

• I led a distributed team of 100+ engineers & 11 teams as the engineering leader for our Financial Services organization. This included our card business (suite of products, issuance, and processing), banking business (including our Brex business accounts, global money movement infrastructure), platforms (billing, payments, accounts), risk (including data science, underwriting, fraud, and compliance), global products (reimbursements, multi-entity, global cards), onboarding, and pricing.

Nov 2022 – Aug 2023 · 9 mos

• Lead engineering for our global products group including our multi entity, global cards, accounts, billing, and pricing platforms.

Jun 2022 – Nov 2022 · 5 mos

• Leading strategy, product, and engineering for our web3 initiatives.

Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 · 9 mos

• Led engineering for our Venture backed financial services (3 teams) and key banking initiatives (Brex Cash)

Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 · 10 mos

• Led engineering for our financing / capital business

Mar 2020 – Nov 2020 · 8 mos

• Kickstarted and led engineering for our capital business (through Compose Labs acquisition)

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 3 mos

• I invest in startups at the earliest stages and am an LP in a few early stage funds (Cambrian VC, Fintech Fund, Formulate VC, Todd & Rahul Fund).
• Over 45 angel investments including:
• Fal.ai (seed, now worth $4.5B)
• Jar
• Savvy Wealth (seed)
• Composio (seed)
• Letta (seed)
• Mastra.ai (seed)
• Destiny (seed)
• Comun (seed)
• Extend (seed)
• Lendflow (seed)
• and a ton of others including: Airplane (acquired), Amori, Atllas, Dukaan, Encuadrado, Equi, Gero Labs, Integral, Ideaflow, OfficeTogether (acquired), Orb Labs, Repool, Sammy Labs, Shuttle, and Steamship.

Jan 2016 – Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Aquired by Brex in 2020.
• CommonLounge is the most intuitive way to learn technical topics. We've developed a patent-pending experience that lets you automatically generate videos supported by a suite of interactive apps that work across any device. Raised $2M from angel investors.

Mar 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Portola Valley, California

• EagerPanda aims to create an entirely new paradigm of how people share and discover knowledge. We were part of StartX in the summer of 2013.
• Raised over $4M from Greylock, Pear, Formation 8, Omidyar, Venrock, Streamlined, Ram Shriram, Charlie Cheever, and a host of amazing angels!

Jun 2012 – Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Wrote a Windows 8 applications (Inkarus) that had over 3,700 downloads internally
• Accepted into the Windows 8 store before the launch of Windows 8
• A physics-based game that used the WinRT framework with Javascript/HTML5 for the front-end and C# for the physics engine and game logic.

May 2011 – Apr 2012 · 11 mos

• Lead server-side and database backend developer
• Worked with PHP, MySQL, XML, Javascript, the google places API, etc. to create the backend infrastructure for our hybrid mobile apps.
• Helped get our Android Apps ready for deployment
• Integrated e-commerce (authorize.net) and communication api's (twilio) through PHP

Oct 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Worked with Pranav Mistry to launch Sixth Sense 2.0.
• Used WPF and C/C# to help create the software backend behind a remote augmented reality device based on SixthSense technology. The device will use a mobile computing device along with a pico projector that can enhance our interaction with our everyday environment by projecting live information onto it.
• Worked on an early prototype of a device similar to Google Glass
• One of the product managers for the open source SixthSense project
• Worked with Android programming, augmented reality for mobile phone, and OpenCV

Jul 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Created EasyDefine (www.easydefine.com), a web 2.0 application to quickly define and learn lists of words. Used by teachers to manage their vocabulary lesson plans and by students studying for various tests.
• Over 950,000 users in over 220 countries and 19,500 cities.

May 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Worked on behavioral scoring and computational neuroscience data collection techniques involving large amounts of data (rate and frequency mapping) for various experiments testing the cognition of rats.
• Wrote analysis software with MATLAB including graphic user interfaces
• Paper to be published.

Dec 2007 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Used Interactive C to create an autonomous robot that could robustly navigate the playing field while completing several tasks using IR sensors, distance sensors, touch sensors, encoders, etc.
• 1st Place in Southern California