Skills
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Backend Development: Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js
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DevOps: Docker, AWS ECS, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
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Generative AI: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Vercel AI SDK, LiteLLM
Work Experience
- Technical Lead: Architect and lead engineer for enterprise readiness, authentication, and shared SaaS/on-prem deployment architecture.
- Agent Engineering: Primary maintainer of the company's internal skills and agents, as well as the Python portions of the codebase.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Managed several teammates and served as a mentor across the entire product engineering team.
- Platform Lead: Directed architectural vision for backend systems, representing the platform in seasonal planning cycles while running weekly meetings with engineers to share knowledge and facilitate incremental change.
- Technical Lead: Coordinated cross-platform efforts across the organization, ranging from feature work related to subscriptions, onboarding, and fitness journeys to platform-level work enabling experimentation, metrics analysis, and payments.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Grew a global team of backend and frontend engineers via regular 1:1s, career conversations, and weekly platform meetings to foster collaboration and communal knowledge transfer.
- Architect: Designed the API platform to automate manual workflows across sales, delivery/operations, and customer service, and to enable new iOS and web applications.
- Management: Mentored teammates while managing a team of contractors to launch the new API platform.
- Engineering: Contributed features to the platform before and after launch, enabling the company to pivot while growing.
- Headspace for Work: Technical lead for the three-person team that launched Headspace's new B2B platform and associated products.
- Search & Recommendations: Launched microservices for serving daily recommendations and search results.
- Subscriptions: Designed and migrated the B2C product to a new payments and subscription service.
- Platform Lead & Mentor: As the first engineer in a remote office, co-led the API platform team, driving team-wide and company-wide initiatives and running weekly meetings focused on roadmaps, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
- iTunes: Architect and one of three developers working on a single-page Ember.js application.
- iOS: Joined the iOS Music team to work on the redesigned Apple Music in iOS 10 and 11.
- Apple TV: Created shared framework for iOS Music and Apple TV apps that eventually evolved into TVMLKit and TVMLKit JS.
- Acquired by Apple in 2014. Served as iOS client architect, core API and SDK designer, and developer advocate.
- Acquired as a subsidiary of Beats Electronics in 2012. Worked on the web player and TV apps.
- Acquired by Disney in 2025. Launched Hulu Plus subscription service on TV platforms after working on desktop player and internal CMS.