Sep 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Leading a globally distributed Engineering organization at Skillz, overseeing platform, product, and core services to scale our competitive gaming business.
• Technology Strategy & Live Ops: Drive platform reliability and real-time game operations
• Innovation & Platform Expansion: Expanded Skillz from mobile to web (games.skillz.com), launched Skillz Arcade, and yayz.com for new revenue streams
• Executive Collaboration & Financial Leadership: Partner with leadership to align engineering strategy with business goals and manage the engineering P&L
• Sept 2023 - Dec 2023: Head of SDK
• Dec 2023 - Nov 2025: Head of Engineering

Jan 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Managed multiple full-stack engineering pods for a $150M+ annual revenue game, overseeing 15+ engineers across three North American locations with 99.99% uptime.
• Built and scaled a platform engineering team from 0 → 4 engineers, mentoring senior engineers into Tech Leads and Engineering Managers.
• Engineered a CMS for Live Ops, cutting production errors by 90% and reducing engineering intervention by 80%.
• Modernized DevOps with HPA autoscaling, service migrations, and AWS cost optimizations, reducing cloud spend by 25%.
• Partnered with Product to prioritize features, align resources, and ensure roadmap delivery.

Oct 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Led a pod of 5 engineers while serving as Software Architect for a 25+ person organization across 3+ North American locations.
• Re-architected Zynga Poker to a scalable microservices system, accelerating feature development by 250% and reducing infrastructure costs by 300%.
• Led identity service migration with zero downtime, supporting 2M+ DAU and 3M+ daily sessions.
• Standardized architectural review processes across teams, reducing approval times by 30% and improving feature rollout velocity.

Jan 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Tech Lead Manager for Zynga Poker.
• Established and scaled remote engineering squads in Austin and Toronto, growing teams to 10+ engineers with a local tech lead in each location.
• Led the Flash-to-WebGL migration for Zynga Poker, delivering Zynga’s first WebGL title to preserve more than $25M+ annual revenue.
• Architected platform expansion with ZyngaPoker.com., Zynga’s first standalone .com game to bypass the mobile app store tax, increasing the revenue capture by 30%.

Jan 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Led feature development for various consumer features.

Jun 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Sep 2012 – May 2013 · 8 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

• Ingested and cleaned up data from excel sheets for analysis.
• Identified patterns and trends to assist a PHD student in their research.
• Utilized data engineering skills to streamline data processing tasks efficiently.

Jan 2010 – Jun 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Various companies, including Electronic Arts, HipTraveler, ProFinder, Discotech
• Developed iOS applications for travel booking platforms (HipTraveler)
• Built Android apps using PhoneGap (Discotech)
• Created mobile authentication frameworks (Electronic Arts)
• Created a Web Portal using LAMP stack (3F Software)