Fonoa – Senior Engineer10/2024 - present

• IC contributor at high-growth fintech scale-up automating global tax compliance
• Architecting multi-tenant SaaS transformation of enterprise platform serving global clients
• Increased PDF processing throughput by 15x through parallel processing optimization
• Leading automation initiatives for large-scale web scraping and data extraction systems
• Leading product line representing ~10% of company ARR
• Contributing to high-volume transaction processing system handling 15M+ monthly transactions

• golang
• automation
• postgres
• typescript
• redis
• gcp

Ripjar – Staff Engineer01/2022 - 09/2024

• Owned technical strategy and architecture across multiple engineering teams at financial crime detection SaaS product
• Drove engineering excellence initiatives: modernized CI/CD pipeline, established system-level testing and fitness functions
• Aligned engineering, product, and business roadmaps with C-suite and senior stakeholders
• Raised technical bar across teams through code reviews, design feedback, and architecture decision records
• Improved team velocity and developer experience through tooling, automation, and process improvements

• typescript
• microservices
• design
• kafka
• event-driven architecture
• distributed systems
• CI/CD
• streaming
• github actions

Ripjar – Technical Lead09/2019 - 01/2022

• Led engineering team of 5 through full product development lifecycle, including performance management, career development, and 1:1s
• Owned product serving 40,000 users at world's largest financial institutions; responsible for roadmap, sprint planning, and delivery
• Designed and built microservices architecture for high-scale data processing and search
• Recruitment lead: shaped hiring process improvements, conducted 50+ interviews, hired full-stack and front-end developers
• Mentored team on technical growth, code quality, and engineering best practices

• technical leadership
• mentoring
• ansible
• jenkins
• scrum
• nodejs
• opensearch
• mongodb
• redis
• jira

Ripjar – Senior Front-End Engineer04/2016 - 09/2019

• Led front-end development for financial crime detection product used by major global institutions
• Built complex data visualization interfaces for network intelligence applications
• Championed adoption of modern web technologies across engineering organization
• Collaborated with UX designers to transform complex data problems into intuitive user experiences
• Mentored junior engineers on front-end best practices and modern development workflows

• javascript
• react
• team lead
• webpack
• git
• d3
• webgl
• jest
• selenium

Helyx SIS – Software Developer07/2015 - 04/2016

• Integrated geospatial capabilities into existing client systems
• Modernized legacy codebase to contemporary technology stack
• Introduced version control practices to improve team collaboration and code quality

• asp.net
• javascript
• python
• c#
• geosystems
• java
• git

BAE Systems Detica – Graduate Software Developer06/2012 - 07/2015

• Extended framework for network graph analysis on intelligence applications
• Implemented CI/CD best practices for version control and automated deployment
• Developed NLP research project for website content analysis and classification
• Built queryable data platform for scenario-based intelligence content

• java
• javascript
• network graph
• angular js
• desktop app
• c++
• neo4j

Personal Projects projects

• golang - https://github.com/baking-code?tab=repositories&q=&type=&language=go
• godash - my first published go package https://github.com/baking-code/godash
• AWS - working towards developer certification
• portfolio - this website/PDF, using next.js, tailwind css, react pdf
• recipeasy - web app to share recipes using firebase as a data store

• golang
• nextjs
• tailwind
• vuejs
• aws
• kubernetes
• firebase