Experience

1. Senior Back End Developer @ Quatt

   Oct 2024 – May 2026

   Led three major systems — commissioning, chill control, and Home Battery Insights v2 — through ADR-driven design and cross-team sessions, in IoT architecture where firmware mistakes can't be hotfixed.

2. Chief Technology Officer @ Alistigo

   Jun 2022 – Oct 2024

   Solo-owned the full architecture of a SaaS platform — brand website, widget, REST API, Shopify integration, and open-source SDKs — provisioned via Terraform and migrated from Kubernetes to Azure Functions when the cost math changed.

3. Senior Software Development Engineer @ HqO

   Oct 2023 – Jul 2024

   Led kiosk mode and spot booking to production under one-month deadlines that closed major deals, and redesigned resource-booking performance for a 5x cut in load and response time.

4. Entrepreneur in Residence @ Antler

   Sep 2022 – Jan 2023

   Selected for the AMS7 cohort of 50 entrepreneurs, sharpening VC communication, pitching, and business model validation alongside the technical work.

5. Senior Frontend Developer @ SurveyMonkey

   Aug 2018 – Jun 2022

   Built the company's frontend component library and introduced a modular architecture that decoupled team dependencies, taking release frequency from weekly to multiple times a day.

6. Senior Software Development Engineer @ TheFork, a TripAdvisor company

   Apr 2016 – Jun 2018

   Led a zero-downtime migration from monolith to microservices, cut restaurant-rating processing time by 96%, and established the team's first testing standards.

7. Back End Developer @ TheFork, a TripAdvisor company

   Dec 2014 – Apr 2016

   Started the B2B restaurant back-office migration from PHP/Symfony to React/Node/GraphQL microservices to cut team coupling and unify mobile and web.

8. Chief Technology Officer @ OptiMiam

   Jun 2014 – Nov 2014

   Led architecture and development of a food-waste-reduction MVP in a five-month sprint that won startup competitions and an incubator spot.

9. Lead Software Engineer @ senscritique

   Jul 2011 – May 2014

   Rebuilt caching, data flow, and query design to keep a fast-growing cultural social network from cracking under load, and shipped an automated system that added 8 million cultural works.

10. CEO, CTO & Co-Founder @ Kiiwy

    Jan 2009 – Mar 2011

    Co-founded and ran a Rich Internet Applications agency as CEO/CTO, delivering a real-time video speed-dating app on Flash Media Server and four e-learning projects.