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End-to-end ownership across product platforms, AI systems, and technical direction.

Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with 6+ years building AI products end to end. At CDW, architected Nova, an AI assessment platform for risk and compliance teams, from first requirements to production while helping shape the product and UX. Co-founder of Copia, a live AI budgeting app.

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Senior Software Engineer (Technical Lead)@CDW

Technical lead on Nova (greenfield AI assessment platform) and CAM (PCI auditing platform). Set technical direction for a 10-engineer team and run the biweekly release process.

Oct 2023 - Current

3 yrs 1 mos

Remote

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Python

tRPC

GraphQL

Drizzle ORM

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

GCP

Terraform

Firebase

Vercel AI SDK

Vitest

Playwright

Architected Nova, a greenfield AI platform for risk and compliance assessments, from requirements to production, owning the tech stack, cloud infrastructure, data model, API conventions, testing strategy, and release process, and onboarded its first internal team.

Designed Nova's core AI report-generation architecture as a custom multi-step workflow engine on Vercel AI SDK.

Help drive Nova's product direction and UX alongside its architecture, designing mocks around user workflows and building them through to production.

Primary engineer on CAM, a PCI auditing platform tied to $3M+ annual practice revenue, shipping 80+ production releases over 2+ years.

Cut CAM's main project page load from ~15-20s to ~1-1.5s by fixing core performance and storage bottlenecks.

Led incident response for major outages and security events, making go/no-go calls, coordinating with Security, and owning follow-up hardening so the same failure class did not repeat.

Enabled parallel delivery across a 10-engineer group by authoring initiative plans and 30+ architecture investigations.

Mentored engineers through code review, pairing, and technical transitions; authored release SOPs and supported the overnight India release shift on call.

Co-Founder@Copia

Co-founded Copia, an AI-powered budgeting app, taking it from zero to a live product while owning product decisions, feature development, infrastructure, and go-to-market.

Sep 2023 - Current

3 yrs 2 mos

Remote

TypeScript

Node

React

React Query

React Native

Tailwind

Shadcn

AWS

Zod

Plaid

Auth0

Architected and deployed the full backend on AWS ECS, standing up CI/CD, monitoring, and production infrastructure from scratch.

Built bank syncing with Plaid plus transaction categorization, recurring payment detection, and budget tracking end to end.

Building AI budgeting insights and financial coaching features on Gemini, generating recommendations from users' spending patterns.

Senior Software Engineer@Salesloft

Led key initiatives across Salesloft's Deals and Forecast products as a senior member of the Deals pod, including hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and solution discovery for large features.

Oct 2021 - Oct 2023

2 yrs 0 mos

Remote

TypeScript

React

React Query

CSS

Redis

Protobuf

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

GCP

Launched Deal Summary, one of Salesloft's first AI-powered features, giving sales managers executive summaries with key deal insights.

Achieved 99.99% Salesforce sync reliability by leading optimization efforts driven by observability tooling.

Migrated 20+ backend microservices from New Relic to Datadog, using OpenTelemetry as an abstraction layer to prevent vendor lock-in.

Helped drive a 350% adoption increase of the Forecast product over 6 months through development and go-to-market support.

Reduced Flowchart response times by 50% using Go concurrency patterns and performance profiling.

Increased unit test coverage by 20% by leading product quality initiatives across unit and end-to-end test suites.

Software Engineer@Keyence

Built internal tools and modernized legacy systems while introducing engineering practices, including code review, version control, and unit testing, to a team that had none.

Jun 2020 - Oct 2021

1 yrs 4 mos

Itasca, IL

Python

JavaScript

HTML

CSS

Django

Flask

React

Node.js

Express.js

ASP.NET Core

Blazor

MSSQL

MongoDB

Reduced customer defects by 10% by refactoring and modernizing legacy codebases.

Introduced agile practices, code reviews, version control, and unit testing to a team that had none.

Built the QI Hub analytics tool, cutting management reporting time by 1 hour per day.

Developed a Flask and React data collection system that improved product defect analysis and design feedback.