Experience

Staff Engineer, Calm — 2020-Present

  • Led Calm Enterprise from initial platform formation to hundreds of millions in contract value, supporting partners including United Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, and multiple Fortune 100 companies
  • Evolved bespoke partner implementations into a reusable platform spanning partner admin, SSO / auth, subscriptions, payments, reporting, and media delivery
  • Architected user-facing AI product infrastructure: recommendation systems, structured and free-text input handling, safety fallbacks, crisis routing, and eval pipelines
  • Served as the primary technical partner for non-engineering stakeholders, working with Product, Design, Clinical, Legal, Sales, and client teams. Trusted to translate ambiguous strategy into shippable plans across enterprise launches and platform bets
  • Modernized backend and web stacks across business units: TypeScript migrations, monorepos with clear service boundaries, faster CI/CD, build caching, and more
  • Built out durable testing practices (unit, integration, visual regression, accessibility, E2E) and led cross-BU security / incident-response programs, keeping SLAs green

Staff Engineer, Patreon — 2015-2020

Held many roles in my time at Patreon: iOS engineer, VP of Engineering, Director of Product Engineering, and full-stack Technical Lead of our Payments organization

iOS Engineer — 2015

  • Launched our app to over 100k monthly actives within six months of beginning development
  • Spun up our internal and public APIs alongside it

VP of Engineering — 2016

  • Refocused the team around clear product objectives and processes, increasing our NPS by 15 points within six months and halving our merchant churn
  • Grew the engineering team from less than 10 to more than 30 while improving engineering retention and morale
  • Restructured our organization to have clear career trajectories, learning opportunities, and widespread autonomy for our engineers no matter their passions or skills

Director of Product Engineering — 2017

  • Mentored the engineering leads on all cross-functional project teams
  • Helped steer the engineering organization’s product development processes
  • Lead agile/scrum training
  • Strategized testing and QA tooling and planning
  • Coordinated org-wide projects and release strategies

Staff Engineer, Payments — 2018-2020

  • Technical lead for all billing and money-moving operations
  • Oversaw our architectural planning and led our feature implementation (integrating with third-party vendors like Checkout and Sovos, launching new payments features like tiered pricing and annual billing, etc)
  • Processed, at peak volume, over $40M per day, over 100 transactions per second
  • Continued to support our internal tools, including: our web data management libraries, private and public API libraries, and our web integration testing environments

Director of Client-Side Software, Clinkle — 2011-2015

  • The first full-time engineering hire. Started as an iOS engineer, eventually managed the whole 12-person team of iOS, Android, Web, and Graphics engineers
  • Invented (along with one co-worker and two consultants) a patented data transmission standard using echo-encoding in ultrasonic frequencies

Software Engineering Consultant, Pivotal Labs — 2011-2012

Research and Development Intern, Mozilla — 2011

Education

Stanford University — 2011

  • B.S. in Symbolic Systems, Phi Beta Kappa
  • GPA: 4.0 in Computer Science, 3.8 overall

Skills

  • Core Competencies: Technical Strategy, Product & Design Integration, Agile & Scrum Processes, etc.
  • Artificial Intelligence: MLFlow, LangChain, Claude Code, Codex, etc.
  • Languages & Frameworks: Typescript, Javascript, Python, GoLang, React, NextJS, Express, Flask, etc.
  • Testing & Quality: Jest, Mocha, Chai, Cypress, Visual Regression, A11y, etc.