Jan 2025 – Aug 2025 · 7 mos

• Promoted to CTO to lead the company's technology vision, product strategy, and engineering organization. I direct all technical operations while remaining hands-on to ensure excellence in execution.
• Strategic Leadership: Drive the company’s technical strategy and product roadmap, aligning engineering initiatives with long-term business objectives, market demands, and customer success.
• Team & Talent Management: Lead and scale high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous growth. Oversee talent acquisition and mentorship for key technical roles.
• Technical Architecture & Execution: Architect core systems and guide high-level technical decisions for scalability, security, and performance. Maintain hands-on involvement in critical codebases to ensure quality and guide implementation.
• Stakeholder & Customer Engagement: Partner with C-level executives on strategic planning and serve as the key technical liaison for enterprise clients (including Fortune 500), translating their needs into actionable product enhancements.

Apr 2020 – Jan 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Promoted to lead the engineering division through a period of critical growth. Drove technical strategy, scaled the team, and owned the development of core products that enabled the company to secure enterprise clients and gain entry into Y Combinator.
• Business & Market Impact: Secured a key enterprise deal that was instrumental in Waydev's acceptance into Y Combinator (W21). Single-handedly engineered the company's on-premise solution from concept to deployment, mastering Kubernetes to unlock the Fortune 500 market.
• Leadership & Team Scaling: Grew and mentored the engineering organization, establishing a high-performance culture of ownership and problem-solving. Hired key talent and developed career paths, building a cohesive and highly effective team.
• Platform Modernization & Innovation: Spearheaded a full frontend migration from Laravel views to Vue.js, significantly improving user experience. Strategically expanded the tech stack by introducing Go (webhooks), Node.js (bots), and Python (AI/ML), enhancing platform capabilities.
• Enterprise-Grade Architecture: Architected and managed a scalable, multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure (AKS), and GCP to support large-scale datasets for enterprise clients. Built dozens of complex API integrations using REST and GraphQL with platforms like GitHub, Jira, and Azure DevOps.
• Crisis Management & Client Relations: Demonstrated elite problem-solving under pressure by co-managing a critical security incident and resolving high-stakes technical issues for C-level clients, often delivering fixes within 15-minute windows before key meetings.

Nov 2019 – Apr 2020 · 5 mos

• Joined the pre-YC startup as an early developer and quickly became a key contributor to the core Laravel application, establishing a track record of high performance and initiative.
• Accelerated Feature Development: Rapidly mastered the complex codebase with minimal mentorship, consistently delivering new, customer-requested functionality ahead of schedule in a fast-paced environment.
• Product Initiative & Impact: Proactively identified, proposed, and developed new product features that were successfully deployed and well-received by customers, directly contributing to early product-market fit.
• High-Potential Contributor: Thrived with high autonomy, exceeding expectations and contributing to foundational product enhancements that supported the company's growth and journey towards YC acceptance.

Oct 2018 – Feb 2019 · 4 mos

• Gained foundational full-stack experience in a professional agency setting during my university studies, contributing to diverse client projects with a modern tech stack.
• Solved a Core Technical Challenge: Successfully engineered and implemented a complex LDAP integration for a client's authentication system, resolving a technical blocker that had previously challenged the team.
• Full-Stack Contributions: Developed and debugged features for multiple web applications, building back-end functionality with Laravel and creating responsive front-end components with Vue.js.
• Modern Development Practices: Gained hands-on experience with containerization, using Docker to create and manage consistent development environments for client projects.