Driven servant leader experienced in building robust and innovative team of software engineers, growing people along with the growth of the business and technology. A natural leader, easy to work with and approachable excelling in motivating employees into top-performing teams. Consistently deliver innovative software solutions targeted towards fulfilling strategic business objectives and increased customer satisfaction.

* Twenty years of experience as Engineering Leader and Software Engineer in developing large scale distributed systems with specialization in Java, AWS, Microservices.

* Specialize in creating brand new teams, making them super productive and instilling a culture of great work ethics, collaboration and fun!

* Manage an excellent partnership with Executive Management, Principal Engineers, Product management, Support, Site Reliability, and Infrastructure engineering.

* Extensive experience with various Open Source projects

* Advocate of Agile Development Methodologies

* Own 3 technical patents; 1 for Philips and 2 for Salesforce

Technical Competencies:

Java, Force.com / Apex, OOP, AWS, DMS, Agile / Scrum / Kanban, Open Source, Distributed Systems Architecture, Microservices, Blockchain Technologies

Program Management:

Engineering Management, Agile Methodologies, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Collaboration, Coaching, Mentoring, Team Leader

Currently working as Sr Engineering Manager at Marqeta. Founded in 2010, Marqeta has re-engineered how payment cards, virtual cards, and mobile authorization products should be developed and deployed. The Marqeta open API platform allows the world’s innovators to instantly issue & process cards with control, flexibility & scale. Products I am responsible for include tokenization, bin alerting & forecasting, disputes management, card fulfillment, one sandbox, account updaters, developer experience.