Expensify
Director of EngineeringMar 2026–Present
- Lead interdisciplinary project and subject-matter teams of 7–10 across bank partner audits, production infrastructure, & fintech product development
- Negotiate commercial and risk-allocation terms with strategic financial partners and technology vendors
- Operationalize domestic and EU/UK regulatory frameworks (PCI-DSS, SOX, SOC 2, PSD2, EMI licensing) across card issuing, cross-border payments, fraud controls, & public company operations
- Contribute to company-wide roadmap and cross-functional strategy
- Handle sensitive personnel matters including medical, legal, compensation, & separation
Senior Engineering ManagerDec 2023–Mar 2026 (2 years, 4 months)
- Lead multiple teams of 7-10 in engineering, product development, and compliance
- Coach and support other managers in addressing employee performance issues
- Implement company-wide policy on vacation, referrals, expense reporting, PIP-management, & more
- Directly address employee performance & behavioral issues, deliver feedback & PIPs
- Maintain individual SRE responsibilities
Engineering ManagerSept 2022–Dec 2023 (1 year, 3 months)
- Lead a team of 7-10 SREs and Software Engineers
- Formally mentor 1-3 employees per year
- Coach and support other mentors in promoting employee growth
- Directly address employee performance issues, deliver feedback & PIPs
- Maintain individual SRE responsibilities
Site Reliability EngineerJan 2020–Sept 2022 (2 years, 8 months)
- Develop & maintain production systems, CI/CD, security policies, and developer tooling
- Represent IT organization in SOC 2, PCI-DSS, SOX, & partner audits
- Manage infrastructure & software projects from conception through implementation
- Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation
- Train new-hires
Himalayan Institute
Web Development ManagerOct 2015–Dec 2019 (4 years, 2 months)
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Built the web team and the entire web presence from scratch.
Conducted hiring activities for web, marketing, A/V, and graphic
design, and established best practices, working methodologies, and
yearly roadmaps.
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Responsible for conceptualizing, planning, coordinating, and
executing all web products, including two full WordPress sites, two
mini-sites (same domain, different branding), a Shopify site, an
internal documentation website, and a $150k/yr membership program.
Primary stack included WordPress (PHP) and React/Redux.
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Acquired $7k/yr in grants on AWS and Azure and built custom
monitoring and integrations platform, leveraging Go (Golang),
Ansible, Terraform, Icinga2, and Docker.
Apple
Software EngineerMar 2015–Sep 2015 (7 months)
- Maintained software platform that managed infrastructure deployment and automation for Maps.
- Developed full-stack using Rails, Sinatra, AngularJS, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
ModCloth
Software Engineer Oct 2012–Dec 2014 (2 years, 3 months)
- Providing deployment tools, infrastructure automation for Ubuntu and SmartOS, and back-end services.
- Installed, configured, and operated persistence and communication layer, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, and RabbitMQ.
- Primary languages included Go (Golang) and Ruby, with scripting in Bash.
- Used Chef, Ansible, and Docker for provisioning, configuration management, and containerization.
Kemists
Software Engineer Jun 2012–Sep 2012 (4 months)
- Full-stack development in Ruby on Rails & JavaScript
- iOS 5 development using Objective-C, Cordova, & JavaScript
Fireman Creative
Web Development Intern Dec 2011–Apr 2012 (5 months)
Full-stack development for small business customers using WordPress, PHP, LESS, jQuery, and MySQL
Apple Store, Shadyside
ExpertMay 2018–May 2011 (3 years)
- Led sales
- facilitated daily operations
- Mentored new-hires
- Assisted in new store openings & other special events