PROFILE
Experienced and impact-driven software architect with a strong track record of leading the design and delivery of scalable AI and platform systems in production at scale. Specialized in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), conversational AI, and real-time search, with a focus on simplifying complex systems for speed, reliability, and maintainability. Proven ability to independently drive technical initiatives from idea to launch, collaborate across organizations, and deliver high-quality results with zero production incidents. Passionate about building systems that balance innovation with engineering rigor.
EXPERIENCE
Staff Software Engineer, Intuit Remote
Aug 2023 – Present
- PD engineering lead for Intuit Assist Conversational QnA capability, available in all major Intuit products.
- Built and launched multiple retrieval pipelines for real-time product and tax-related QnA across multiple business units, supporting both structured and unstructured content.
- Redesigned and scaled internal QnA platform, simplifying codebase by over 95% (from 2,000 to <100 lines), improving maintainability and iteration speed by introducing config-driven self-service, reducing overhead of new and existing customer integrations from average 120 engineering hours to just minutes.
- Developed developer-facing tools like an interactive debug mode to improve observability and reduce issue resolution time.
- Delivered zero critical incidents (P1/P2) across all launches over last 12 months, including high-traffic peak tax seasons.
- Drove end-to-end architecture for multiple live production systems, balancing performance, reliability, and speed of development.
Senior Software Engineer, Intuit San Diego
Feb 2021 – Aug 2023
- PD engineering lead for Self Help Content Services team responsible for serving Intuit help content across all major Intuit products.
- Designed, built and launched a ground-up rearchitecture of the Intuit Self Help stack, used to retrieve, localize, personalize, deliver and render help content across the global Intuit ecosystem.
- Enabled rich, dynamic block based content authoring migrating from existing static HTML to React based structured content for over 30,000 internal content and 1 million+ user generated content.
- Scaled new content services stack to over 1,000 TPS serving help content at scale.
Founder, Restful Data Inc Remote
Jan 2018 – Feb 2021
- Bootstrapped a team of four to $65k MRR, building and maintaining web applications for clientele spanning several industries, from cryptocurrency to pharmaceutical.
- Designed and developed an full stack JavaScript application framework for deploying live, production-grade applications in minutes using a custom VPS provisionment pipeline and code scaffolding process.
Senior Software Engineer, Tapcart Los Angeles
Apr 2020 – Feb 2021
- Led a team of three frontend engineers, building new features for our Shopify merchant platform, while maintaining and upgrading core, legacy system components.
- Responsibilities included managing code reviews, deploying releases, improving DX, and individual contribution to the codebases.
Senior Software Engineer, MJD Interactive San Diego
Oct 2016 – May 2017
- Led a team of six frontend engineers on several fortune 500 projects, including Mattel's American Girl Create Your Own doll customization experience used by millions today.
- Successfully transitioned the frontend engineering team from Drupal to React for all major clients and projects.