Jul 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Led engineering teams building application frameworks and developer platforms for Meta's augmented and mixed reality products, including the Orion AR Glasses and the Quest headset lineup (Quest 2, Quest Pro, Quest 3).
• Built and scaled the most widely adopted application framework for AR Glasses, used by ~80% of first-party AR experiences across all content teams.
• Led scripting frameworks (imperative APIs, UI components, TypeScript tooling), enabling real JavaScript capabilities in the AR/VR creator ecosystem for the first time.
• Shipped critical program deliverables across 4 major release cycles, including UI framework integration and full API coverage.
• Managed double the typical engineering scope, 2 frameworks, while maintaining strong team health through 3 major organizational restructurings.
• Spearheaded a critical platform pivot, establishing a new AR development environment. Successfully rebuilt the team twice amid organizational changes, utilizing strategic hiring and internal mobility to sustain high engagement levels.
• Top contributor company-wide to AR/AI research hardware and world understanding models.
• Organized engineering community events: hackathons, technical deep-dive series, and cross-team offsites.

Sep 2018 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Led a 60-person engineering department, driving digital transformation across Deutsche Bank's client-facing platforms.
• Built 8 engineering teams from scratch across Salesforce data integration (KYC, client lifecycle management), CRM development, Sales Analytics, Corporate Finance technology, Debt Capital Markets, Sales Coverage, and Research Technology.
• Spearheaded KYC platform modernization by integrating Salesforce CRM into legacy banking systems, reducing client onboarding time and improving regulatory compliance across all global divisions.
• Deployed CRM infrastructure serving tens of thousands of users globally - the foundational system for every new client relationship across all Deutsche Bank business lines.
• Founded and launched a mobile Sales Analytics product, delivering real-time trading and client analytics to 3,500+ sales professionals globally - enabling on-the-go client presentations and directly boosting sales performance.
• Mentored and grew individual contributors and engineering managers across teams.

Jan 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Pitched, designed, and led a bank-wide UI/UX transformation across Global Equities Technology - consolidating 20+ trading applications into a unified React-based platform serving 4,000+ traders globally.
• Built a reusable React foundation layer with real-time backend connectivity, reducing feature delivery time by 50% by eliminating redundant infrastructure work across teams.
• Grew the team from 10 to 35 engineers as the initiative expanded from prototype to full production deployment across multiple trading divisions.
• Led the initiative end-to-end: technology research, prototype development, senior management pitch, technical demos, and global production rollout.
• Established a UX-driven development culture by integrating user experience research into the engineering workflow.

Aug 2011 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Built sub-microsecond trading systems and pioneered DevOps practices for one of Wall Street's top electronic trading platforms.
• Lead UI developer for Deutsche Bank's dark pool analytics and control system - a platform competing for #1 position on Wall Street, deployed to 600+ high-frequency traders globally across multi-screen trading floor setups.
• Designed and built an automated UI testing framework for complex multi-screen trading interfaces (8-10 screens per trader), reducing the product testing cycle from 3 days to 4 hours.
• Built an end-to-end software delivery pipeline (issue tracking, source control, build, artifact storage, deployment) - years before CI/CD became an industry standard - reducing time-to-market by 30%.

Jan 2011 – Jul 2011 · 6 mos

• Led architecture design and engineering delivery for a new enterprise client project.
• Improved team performance by 30% through optimized planning and reduced context switching.
• Restructured a 20-person Agile team into 2 feature-oriented sub-teams with independent delivery pipelines, removing blocking dependencies and reducing time-to-market by 30%.

Apr 2010 – Jan 2011 · 9 mos

• Designed the architecture for a large-scale data visualization product for US government agencies - enabling real-time analysis and relationship mapping across ~10 billion objects for 3,000 users.
• Built interactive data visualization and dependency graph rendering at a scale unusual for 2010-era web applications.
• Represented the company at tech meetups and university sessions, hosting talks on software development and inspiring students to pursue technology careers.

Sep 2008 – Apr 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Built enterprise-grade reporting and development tools for government clients.
• Designed a web reporting architecture supporting 10,000 concurrent users with 200 simultaneous report sessions and zero downtime.
• Built a custom IDE for the company's proprietary programming language, enabling developers to build reporting models with integrated code analysis and compilation.
• Partnered with sales team on client installations, technical demos, and production support.