Los Angeles, CA | U.S. Citizen
Education
University of Texas at Tyler
The Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University
Experience
Senior Software Engineer, AI Search and Platform Infrastructure | PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Founding engineer on AI search and platform infrastructure for Capital One, Discover, and Zelle.
- Discover.com AI Search for consumers - hybrid search combining vector embeddings, BM25 keyword scoring, ANN/KNN retrieval, entity extraction, intent classification, and RAG pipelines.
- Discover.com AI Search - LLM agent pipelines and AI agents for document understanding, ML model training and serving on Kubeflow and MLOps, plus document crawling, indexing, and ETL at scale.
- Capital One DataBolt payments tokenization for banks - Go and TypeScript APIs, Redis caching, and Kafka event streaming.
- Zelle peer-to-peer payments platform - onboarding, authentication, licensing, and access control APIs.
- Production deployment across AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE, Docker, and Helm.
- Observability with OpenTelemetry, SRE runbooks, incident response, and on-call rotations.
Software Engineering Manager, Infrastructure | Cubic Transportation Systems
Transit fare systems across WMATA, NYC MTA, BART, LA Metro, and MBTA.
- Cloud infrastructure and service mesh security with Terraform, AWS, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes on Linux.
- NYC MTA iPhone payments rollout with Apple.
- LA Metro TAP backend networking and onsite operations.
- Incident response, on-call leadership, and site reliability practices across five metro agencies.
Lead Senior Software Engineer | Cubic Transportation Systems
Platform modernization for rider and fare services.
- Release, integration, and deployment workflows with Jenkins, Docker, Helm, Vault, Terraform, AWS Lambda, and Azure Functions.
- Chicago Metra chatbot for rider operations.
- Urban Insights machine learning, data science, and search systems for transit prediction and operations.
Senior Software Engineer | Cubic Transportation Systems
First DevOps engineer for fare platforms moving from legacy systems to containers and cloud on Linux.
- Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana delivery standards.
- NextBus arrival prediction data platform with machine learning models for transit schedule optimization.
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure | EPAM Systems
Promoted to senior backend engineer at digital UX agency building apps for enterprise clients.
- Fannie Mae Collateral Underwriter Angular web app.
- Lockheed Martin Intranet Search on headless Drupal with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- NY Fashion Week 2015 mobile app.
- PostgreSQL migrations with Liquibase and microservices on Docker and Kubernetes 1.2.
Software Engineer, Infrastructure | EPAM Systems
Backend engineer on full-stack team at digital UX agency building mobile apps and e-commerce platforms.
- Poison Control mobile app.
- Canadian Tire e-commerce store.
- U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops mobile app.
- PostgreSQL multi-tenant migration with zero downtime.
- Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, VMware ESXi, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Cisco ASA firewalls.
Projects
Io Pictures Corporation - Founding Engineer
Architecture for rights, metadata, payments, storage, and digital distribution systems from zero to production.
The Archive of American Radio, Inc. - Founding Engineer
Architecture for search, RAG retrieval, metadata extraction, AI agent workflows, content processing, and API systems from zero to production.
Skills
- Core: Software architecture, platform architecture, distributed systems, system design, site reliability engineering, SRE, incident response, on-call, backend services, APIs
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, Linux
- Languages: Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
- AI/ML: LLM, AI agents, RAG, machine learning, MLOps, vector search, hybrid search, BM25, ANN/KNN, entity extraction, intent classification, Kubeflow
- Search: Search indexing, ETL, offline evaluation, experiment design, Lucene, Solr, OpenTelemetry