Chief Technology Officer

NOV 2021 - MAY 2026 · 4.6 years

Transformed a local NYC helpline serving a handful of people a day into a food access system that helped over a million people across 11 regions in 2025 with a small team. Managed an offshore contracting team, mentored an engineer, and owned technical and product strategy, budget, and infrastructure spend.

Senior Software Engineer

NOV 2017 - OCT 2021 · 4 years

Senior Software Engineer

NOV 2017 - OCT 2021 · 4 years

At the Democratic fundraising platform: rewrote the main donation form server (Ruby Sinatra → Node; ops later lifted it to AWS unchanged) and the company's PCI tokenizer. Solo, built a new embed from scratch at 100% test coverage. Contributions scaled from ~$1B to over $8B. Embed powered the Biden presidential campaign, the NAACP, Everytown, and more.

Software Engineer

MAR 2016 - NOV 2017 · 1.8 years

One of 5 engineers building tools for enterprises to manage employee spending. Shipped receipt view, a redesigned search and faceting system, automated flight metadata, and trip-level grouping. Acquired by Emburse.

Software Engineer

MAR 2016 - NOV 2017 · 1.8 years

Lead Web Engineer

OCT 2014 - MAR 2016 · 1.5 years

Employee #8 at a live-music subscription startup. Built the client-side app from scratch in React / webpack / Reflux; contributed to the Rails API, including the company's first Stripe integration. When the CEO announced a Canada launch a week out with no code written, shipped full-stack currency and localization, on time.

Software Engineer

AUG 2010 - OCT 2014 · 4.3 years

Employee #12, one of the first two full-time engineers; joined pre-launch. Owned the client side as Kickstarter scaled from $28M in annual pledges to crossing $1B cumulative (March 2014), with 22,000+ projects funded in 2014 alone. Built the front-end of the multistep project editor (still the basic shape of today's flow), site search, custom text editors, creator messaging/backer tools, admin tooling, and the first mainstream HTML5 video player.

Front End Web Engineer

AUG 2008 - AUG 2010 · 2.1 years

First front-end engineer; joined before the company had a name. Built the CMS and front-end architecture that scaled to hundreds of small-town news sites across America, plus a system for rendering highly customized neighborhood maps. Acquired by AOL.