Summary
Technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with extensive experience architecting modern e-commerce, subscription, and data systems at high growth consumer brands. Expert in designing scalable platforms, building engineering organizations, and driving cross functional alignment across product, operations, marketing, and executive leadership. Known for transforming legacy systems into modern, high performance architectures, delivering measurable business impact, and leading teams through complex technical, operational, and cultural change. Combines hands on technical depth with strong strategic leadership, mentorship, and a consistent focus on delivering high impact, production ready systems.
Experience
Chief Technology Officer · Shinesty
June 2021 to Present
- -Recruited for deep subscription commerce expertise to design and roll out Shinesty's next-generation subscription platform, powering 75,000+ subscribers and 110,000+ active subscriptions with automated product assignment based on inventory, configuration rules, and customer preferences.
- -Built a comprehensive understanding of Shinesty's business and operational workflows, translating that knowledge into scalable data models, domain architectures, and long-term technical strategy aligned with executive leadership.
- -Architected and implemented core backend systems on Node.js, AWS serverless, and MongoDB; increased system reliability, improved deployment velocity, and supported significant YoY traffic growth without major incidents.
- -Developed hundreds of APIs to unify subscription, storefront, and operational systems; enabling personalization, automated merchandising logic, operational transparency, and cross-team workflow automation.
- -Rebuilt the Shopify Liquid storefront into a modern Next.js application, driving substantial improvements in site speed, accessibility, stability, and SEO health and contributing to higher conversion rates, reduced bounce rates, and stronger user engagement.
- -Delivered a suite of internal tools - including a custom CMS, A/B testing framework, analytics instrumentation, size-guide system, admin dashboards, and promotion engines - that reduced content launch times from days to about an hour, enabled daily site updates, and decreased related bugs by 99%.
- -Introduced and championed AI-assisted engineering practices, providing training, prompting frameworks, and workflow guidance that helped engineers adopt AI across design, development, troubleshooting, and documentation, significantly improving team productivity and autonomy.
- -Improved engineering quality and velocity by implementing structured CI/CD pipelines, increasing deployment frequency and reducing production incidents from 20-30 per week to near zero.
- -Partnered with leaders across operations, CX, merchandising, marketing, finance, and creative to diagnose bottlenecks, align technology with organizational priorities, and deliver cross-functional improvements.
- -Managed an ecosystem of dozens of third-party integrations across payments, logistics, analytics, search, martech, and fulfillment, designing efficient data flows that improved platform stability and vendor interoperability.
- -Led long-term architecture, security, compliance, and scalability strategy to support high-volume seasonal peaks and ongoing business growth.
Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, CloudFormation, MongoDB Atlas, Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, Shopify Storefront & Admin APIs, Fivetran, Klaviyo, Algolia, Intelligems, NetSuite, and additional martech and analytics integrations.
Senior Engineering Lead · Green Chef / Hello Fresh
May 2018 to May 2021
- -Served as a key technical leader across multiple cross-functional initiatives, acting as a domain expert in a complex legacy codebase and guiding major projects from early design through deployment.
- -Led the full rewrite and relaunch of Green Chef's customer web application, improving performance, stability, and accessibility by more than 500% (based on Lighthouse audits) and transforming one of the slowest meal-kit sites into a top performer compared to competitors.
- -Architected and built scalable APIs and backend services for subscription management, menu selection, and weekly order generation, reliably supporting 100,000+ customers and large weekly traffic surges.
- -Mentored and organized a growing engineering organization (six engineers, three project managers, and two QA engineers), establishing coding standards, review practices, and sprint rituals that increased throughput and reduced production issues. Later led an additional Canadian team of four engineers and one PM during organizational expansion.
- -Took ownership of daily production reliability issues, implementing observability, instrumentation, monitoring, and documentation that reduced incidents from daily to near-zero and enabled any engineer to quickly troubleshoot issues.
- -Developed internal forecasting software that helped menu planning and operations teams manage warehouse inventory, reducing configuration errors by automatically highlighting SKU expirations and usage priorities.
- -Designed and deployed hundreds of A/B tests focused on conversion and retention, working closely with data and growth teams to measure impact through LTV, churn reduction, and funnel improvements.
- -Acted as the primary technical liaison between Green Chef and HelloFresh engineering leadership, ensuring smooth integration of systems, data models, and development processes during post-acquisition consolidation.
Technologies: AngularJS, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch), MongoDB Atlas, Redis, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and observability tooling, and internal A/B testing and forecasting systems.
Chief Technology Officer · Goosetail Labs
April 2016 to March 2018
- -Led development across multiple concurrent client projects in diverse industries, serving as both principal architect and hands-on engineering lead for web applications, backend systems, and data-driven tools.
- -Owned client onboarding, technical discovery, estimation, and roadmap development, translating business requirements into clear engineering plans and long-term architectural direction.
- -Demonstrated strong technical judgment and rapid decision-making in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, consistently guiding teams toward scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective solutions.
- -Delivered projects on time with a focus on code quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability, and established internal engineering standards and reusable libraries that accelerated team velocity.
- -Built and maintained strong client relationships through clear communication, transparency, and consistent delivery, resulting in expanded engagements and repeat business for the firm.
- -Designed, deployed, and supported MEAN stack applications on AWS, including architecture, CI/CD pipelines, performance optimization, and environment stability across multiple production workloads.
Technologies: AngularJS, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront), Docker, CI/CD pipelines, performance optimization, and environment monitoring and stability tooling.
Co-Founder · ClarkMetrics
July 2015 to March 2018
- -Co founded and built a MEAN stack analytics platform that modeled PGA TOUR player performance using statistical projections.
- -Developed features for generating daily fantasy lineups, head to head matchups, and wagering handicaps using custom projection models.
- -Designed and developed technical components including data ingestion, modeling pipelines, user interface, and portfolio simulation logic.
Technologies: MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js, and reusable internal libraries and deployment workflows developed at Goosetail Labs.
Vice President and Development Manager · IHS Markit
August 2009 to April 2016
- -Led a development team building enterprise-grade financial and healthcare web applications for Fortune 500 clients, overseeing feature scoping, architectural decisions, delivery timelines, and cross-team coordination.
- -Served as a principal C# engineer contributing to application architecture, core services, and long-term platform maintainability within a large, compliance-heavy environment.
- -Developed high-availability ASP.NET MVC applications using C#, jQuery, HTML, CSS, and internal libraries, ensuring reliability, accessibility, and consistency across client implementations.
- -Diagnosed and resolved complex production issues across distributed systems, improving stability and reducing support escalation volume.
- -Collaborated closely with product managers, analysts, QA teams, and external stakeholders to deliver multi-year projects under strict security, performance, and regulatory requirements.
Technologies: C#, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, HTML, CSS, internal enterprise libraries, diagnostic and troubleshooting tooling, and traditional SDLC workflows.
