👋 I’m a polyglot engineering leader who enjoys working across all parts of the technology stack and on all facets of an organization.
I currently work on Link at Stripe.
Stripe
Building economic infrastructure for the Internet!
Engineering Manager, Link / Jan
2021 – Present
- “Founding EM” for Link, Stripe’s networked consumer
payment method—tens of millions of consumers use Link to transact at over one million businesses
- Solely responsible for all facets of Link engineering—technical oversight, hiring, org.
design—from three
engineers to 40+
- Current areas of ownership include app.link.com,
authentication/security/compliance, mobile SDKs, messaging channels, and customer support
Engineering Manager, Capital / Jan
2020 – Dec 2020
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Managed Stripe Capital’s underwriting team, the team that maintains
Capital’s data pipeline and machine
learning
models.
Software Engineer, Capital / Apr
2019 – Dec 2019
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Joined Stripe as the fifth engineer on the Capital team. Worked on the backend (Ruby), frontend
(JavaScript), and
data pipeline/machine learning models
(Scala and
Python)
Prefer
CTO / Nov 2015 – Jan 2019
I was hired by Scott Belsky (Behance, Adobe) to lead engineering
as part of
Prefer’s founding team (third full-time employee, first in NYC). We
tried to build “the
platform for the future of work,” a referral network to support meaningful independent careers across numerous
professions. We
raised our Series A from Benchmark, Expa,
#Angels, Homebrew, and other
top-tier investors.
We built four different products over the course of over three years, comprised of three native iOS
applications, two
React/TypeScript codebases, two Ruby on Rails servers (one using REST and one using GraphQL), and
one offline community.
While the company didn’t ultimately succeed, it was an incredible experience alongside the best team I
could’ve possibly hoped
for.
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Member of the executive team, reporting directly to the CEO
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Involved in all aspects of running the company: defined overall company strategy, determined headcount,
attended board
meetings
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Led all technical efforts on both consumer-facing and internal operations software, working extensively
across all codebases (Swift, React/TypeScript/GraphQL, Ruby on Rails)
- Hired and managed six other engineers
- Owned the product roadmap alongside our heads of product and design
- Served as site lead of our cross-disciplinary NYC office
Launch press:
Fast
Company,
Forbes,
Business
Insider, Fortune,
TechCrunch
Tumblr
I joined Tumblr when it was around 60 employees and I led development of the
company’s
first
in-house iOS application, presiding over the app during the years when overall Tumblr usage shifted
dramatically from web-based to native mobile.
I subsequently hired the rest of the iOS development team, served as the mobile team’s Staff Engineer, and
eventually moved into
management. I worked to re-organize the engineering department into separate product and “core” platform teams
– the latter of
which I managed – and developed/taught a mobile development curriculum. I reported to
the company’s COO (later CEO) at the time of
my departure.
Senior Engineering Manager / Aug 2015 – Nov
2015
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Managed four teams
- Core iOS
- Core Android
- Core API
- Internal developer tools
- Co-developed an iOS development training course and taught web developers throughout the
company
Lead iOS Engineer / Mar 2012 – Aug
2015
- Built Tumblr for iOS 3.0, a complete rewrite and the first iOS application built in-house
- Led development on all subsequent iOS application versions
- Developed and open-sourced the Tumblr iOS
SDK
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Converted Tumblr iOS to be completely native, using custom HTML rendering (The Verge)
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Launched Tumblr for iPad (The
Verge)
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Implemented native mobile blog customization (The
Verge)
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Released an iOS 8 share extension on day one, wrote about all the problems we
encountered.
- Recruited and hired to grow the team from just myself to around ten iOS developers
Goldman Sachs
Senior Developer / Jul 2008 – Mar
2012
I built full-stack web applications in Java and JavaScript, plus the company’s first native iOS application (GS Research).
Summer Analyst / Jun 2007 – Aug
2007
I interned in between my junior and senior years of college and accepted an offer to return full-time after graduation.
Boston College
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science / Sep 2004 –
May 2008
Boston College is a private liberal arts/research university in Chestnut Hill,
MA. I attended as an
undergraduate, majoring in computer science and minoring in mathematics. Cumulative GPA: 3.57/4.0
