Director of Engineering based in NYC specializing in serverless AWS architecture and AI-powered product development. Former CTO and founding engineer at two successful startups; proven track record of building products from zero to scale and growing engineering teams.
Cloud & Infra:
AWS • AWS CDK • Cloudformation • Lambda • ECS • SQS • Api Gateway • Step Functions • DynamoDB • Cognito • Docker • Elasticsearch • Databricks
Languages:
TypeScript • Javascript • Node.js • Bun • Python • Django • Jest • TDD
Frontend:
React • React Native • Expo
AI:
Claude API • Claude Code • MCP • LLM Integration • Prompt Engineering • AI-Assisted Development
The easiest way to sell your leftover inventory
Promoted to Director of Engineering, leading and mentoring a team of 7 engineers through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and technical direction
Drove adoption of AI-assisted development tooling (Claude Code) across the engineering team, improving developer productivity
Architected and built a proof-of-concept for an AI-augmented product enhancement pipeline, automating the cleansing and enrichment of retailer product data with human-in-the-loop validation, leveraging prompt engineering to optimize LLM output quality
Built internal MCP servers to give engineering and business teams direct, structured access to MaxRetail data
Built and scaled Lightspeed and Square POS integrations into the MaxRetail platform, supporting 217 retailers with active inventory and processing ~28.5K listing units across ~$3.02M in listed inventory value
Engineered a comprehensive Order Management System (OMS) integrating Mirakl and Monday.com, automating 70% of company order processing
Built a lead scoring system that parsed and ranked 5 million Shopify stores to surface and prioritize sales targets, resulting in hundreds of net-new retailers onboarded
#1 Rated Online Therapy
Promoted to Tech Lead from Senior Software Engineer, authoring RFCs, planning sprints, and leading developers in the implementation of new features
Built video call transcription service using AWS StepFunctions, ECS, Lambda, Typescript
Built multi-region scheduled job service using AWS Event Rules, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and React Admin
Built SAML single sign on service using AWS Cognito, Lambda
Migrated custom authentication to AWS Cognito
Music streaming application for emerging artists
Hired and managed an engineering team of 11
Built CI/CD and infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and Github Actions
Built the music streaming web application using React
Built the music streaming mobile application using React Native
Built the REST API using AWS ECS, Python, and Django
Built the media transcoding microservice using AWS StepFunctions, ECS, Lambda, Typescript, and FFMPEG
Built the search microservice using Lambda, Api Gateway, and Elasticsearch
Reelio was acquired to incorporate its application into Fullscreen's marketing workflow
Joined via acquisition of Reelio, contributing to full-stack feature development integrating Reelio's influencer marketing application into Fullscreen's creator economy platform
Managed the front-end team of 4 developers
Built the REST API using Python and Django
Built the web client using React
Influencer marketing management application
First developer hired; helped grow the engineering team to 15
Managed the Front-end team of 4 developers
Built the REST Api using Python and Django
Built the web client using both Angular and React
Social media marketing applications for musicians
Built custom marketing applications for artists including Third Eye Blind and Florence and the Machine
Created a CMS to generate common marketing applications using Wordpress; still in use today
Drexel University, Bachelor Information Systems 2004 - 2009