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Nearly two decades in software engineering, with platform leadership roles at PayPal, eBay, and now Rocket. Today I lead AI-enabled engineering and platform initiatives.
Focus areas
- AI-Enabled Engineering
- Platform Engineering at Scale
- Engineering Org Design & Hiring
- Speaking, Writing & Open Standards
Experience
Distinguished Engineer at Rocket
May 2025 to Present
- Leads AI-enabled engineering initiatives, shared tooling, and responsible adoption practices across engineering.
- Provides technical leadership for Rocket's API platform, including federated GraphQL.
- Led engineering integration work following Rocket's acquisition of Mr. Cooper, coordinating platform and product work across teams.
- Improved shared platform reliability, observability, and engineering quality practices.
- Helped shape Rocket Technology's technical career framework, senior engineering interviews, and engineering learning programs.
Distinguished Engineer at eBay
Oct 2022 to May 2025
- Set technical direction for eBay's consumer Web and Mobile platforms.
- Led technical strategy for eBay Live and partnered across product, design, and marketing to bring the format to market.
- Improved web performance and business outcomes across flagship products.
- Expanded delivery automation across eBay's Node.js estate.
- Set shared Web and Node.js engineering standards and helped teams make consistent technical decisions.
Sr. Principal Engineer at PayPal
Jan 2022 to Sep 2022
- Led technical strategy for PayPal SDKs and Checkout Web.
Director of Engineering at PayPal
Feb 2021 to Dec 2021
- Built and led a developer-platform organization responsible for SDK strategy across PayPal products.
Sr. Engineering Manager at PayPal
Jun 2019 to Feb 2021
- Led PayPal's Web and Node.js platform organization, rebuilding the team and refocusing the roadmap on developer needs.
- Delivered shared GraphQL and front-end platform capabilities and partnered with senior leadership on platform strategy.
Principal Engineer at PayPal
Jul 2017 to May 2019
- Led Web platform modernization for PayPal's flagship Checkout product, improving performance and developer delivery.
- Drove PayPal's early adoption of GraphQL, building shared foundations and helping teams learn the technology.
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Feb 2015 to Jul 2017
- Formed a Product Infrastructure team that modernized Checkout's Web and mobile foundations.
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Nov 2013 to Feb 2015
- Led modernization of PayPal's Consumer Web applications and their shared platform foundations.
- Founded JSLunch and helped organize JS@PayPal, a company-wide engineering conference that continues today.
Sr. Software Engineer at Qplay, Inc.
Apr 2013 to Nov 2013
- First UI engineer at a video-discovery startup founded by TiVo alumni. Built its hybrid mobile experience and helped grow the UI team.
Sr. Software Engineer at PayPal
Jul 2012 to Apr 2013
- Helped modernize Checkout with Node.js and contributed to PayPal's shared JavaScript SDK.
Software Engineer at State Farm Insurance
May 2007 to Jul 2012
- Software engineer across web platforms, including leading the Mobile Web single-page-app rebuild.
Industry contributions
- Published author on AI-native engineering, API platforms, GraphQL, and Node.js across Rocket Engineering, PayPal Engineering, and industry publications (400K+ views).
- Represented PayPal on the GraphQL Foundation's founding board (Linux Foundation).
- Featured engineer in Apollo GraphQL's flagship customer case study on API platform transformation at scale.
- Invited speaker and podcast guest on Node.js security, API platforms, GraphQL, and AI-driven product development.
Awards
- eBay Critical Talent Award (2023)
- PayPal Key Talent Award (2022)
- PayPal Critical Talent Award (2019)
- PayPal Critical Talent Award (2017)
- PayPal Key Talent Award (2016)
