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Professional Summary
Senior full-stack engineer and L6 at Amazon with 18+ years building high-scale distributed platforms. Led architecture and reliability improvements that drove Woot's revenue from $900M to $1.3B. Now designing the next-generation headless commerce platform with AI-powered catalog generation. Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and AWS.
Core Technical Skills
Frontend
React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), ShadCN, Tailwind CSS, Zustand, React Query, Webpack
Backend
Node.js, NestJS, .NET/C#, Python, GraphQL (Apollo Federation), RESTful APIs, Express
Infrastructure
AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, CDK), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, Kafka, Neo4j
Practices
Distributed systems design, headless commerce architecture, CI/CD (Playwright, unit testing), A/B testing, observability (Datadog, Grafana, Splunk), GenAI integration (Amazon Bedrock/Claude), cross-functional collaboration, mentoring
Professional Experience
Amazon (Woot)
Feb 2022 – Present
Senior Software Development Engineer (L6)
Promoted to L6 approximately 18 months ago based on scope of technical leadership and cross-team impact. Full stack engineer on a high-traffic daily-deals e-commerce platform: ~500K daily active users, 2.3M weekly, 168K purchases/week, with 100–1,000X traffic spikes during high-volume events. Performance and reliability improvements to the legacy platform drove revenue from $900M (2024 record) to $1.3B in 2025. Currently leading the architecture of the next-generation platform.
- Designed and own the next-generation platform architecture: headless commerce built on Next.js/ShadCN/React Query/Zustand frontend, NestJS backend services (fulfillment, inventory management), integrated with Shopify APIs for cart/checkout — solving the platform's biggest historical scaling bottlenecks
- Championed and sponsored an AI-powered product catalog system using Amazon Bedrock (Claude) that generates structured product detail pages from SPAPI data — identified the initiative, secured organizational support, and positioned it as a core pillar of the next-generation platform architecture, automating a previously manual content creation workflow
- Lead design and implementation of scalable APIs and distributed services within Amazon's microservices ecosystem, handling high-throughput traffic patterns during flash-sale events
- Building and integrating third-party service layer spanning Shopify, ShipStation, and SPAPI/FBA for fulfillment, shipping, and supply chain operations; 250+ integration tests running against the new headless site
- Leveraged Personal Stacks, an internal orchestration engine that provisions private AWS cloud environments synced with the deployment pipeline, to enable engineers to test code, run integration suites, and validate CDK changes in isolated environments before code review and merge
- Drove Woot's transition into Amazon's internal ecosystem: migrating to Amazon Pipelines, Hydra (testing orchestration engine), Midway authentication, AWS-native infrastructure, internal supply chain tooling, enterprise security scanning, and security auditing processes
- Established robust CI/CD practices including Playwright end-to-end testing, comprehensive unit test coverage, and golden path development patterns for the engineering team
- Presented Woot's developer tooling and engineering processes at SubTech Summit 2025, sharing platform modernization patterns with the broader Amazon engineering community
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on system design, operational excellence, and career development across a distributed team spanning multiple time zones
Worksome (UK)
2021 – 2022
Independent Contractor – API Architect
- Architected the company's GraphQL API from the ground up, defining schema design patterns, query optimization strategies, and federated architecture
- Designed and implemented a full authentication and authorization system modeled on Auth0, enabling secure customer and third-party access to the GraphQL API
- Collaborated remotely with a UK-based engineering team, establishing API design standards and developer documentation
- Delivered a scalable API foundation that the company subsequently extended with a Zapier integration, enabling third-party automation workflows
Restaurant Brands International
Mar 2021 – Feb 2022
Backend Architect / Sr. Software Engineer (Contract)
- Contributed to the decomposition of a monolithic digital platform into containerized microservices (NestJS, Docker), enabling independent team deployment velocity across Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons brands
- Provisioned serverless infrastructure using Terraform on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront) to support new business initiatives across Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons brands
- Embedded in a backend SCRUM team focused on payments and ordering services, shipping features that processed thousands of daily transactions
- Leveraged Datadog for observability across payments and ordering services, monitoring real-time performance metrics and error rates
- Mentored junior developers on distributed systems patterns and testing best practices
Hilton Worldwide
Oct 2018 – Mar 2021
Platform Architect (Contract)
- Architected cross-cutting platform services for Hilton.com's high-traffic web properties (Search, Reservations, Meetings & Events), deployed across thousands of globally distributed nodes (Akamai)
- Contributed to a shared design system and component library serving multiple Hilton.com properties
- Designed and shipped the internationalization framework enabling Hilton.com to serve content in 22 languages, directly expanding addressable market
- Built a release comparison tool allowing Release Managers to diff features between deployments using Git commit history, reducing release validation time
- Collaborated directly with senior executives to align technical solutions with business objectives and revenue targets
- Application stack: Next.js, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Redis, Kafka, Akamai CDN, Docker, AWS
Match.com
Dec 2015 – Oct 2018
Senior Engineer
- Led the prototype and production deployment of Match.com's first GraphQL server (Apollo, Node.js, Express), now the foundation of the platform's API layer
- Key technical adviser on the production GraphQL schema design, coordinating adoption across multiple UI and backend teams
- Designed and maintained REST endpoints processing tens of thousands of requests per second, serving Match.com's core user experience
- Integrated backend systems spanning Redis, Kafka, SQL Server, and legacy WCF services into a unified API surface
- Recognized as the Subject Matter Expert on Match.com's REST API; contributed to technical screening of engineering candidates
TradeStation Technologies
Oct 2011 – Nov 2015
Software Engineer III – Team Lead
- Led a development team building TradeStation's real-time Web API, streaming sub-minute market data to charting applications for tens of thousands of concurrent users (8,000+ requests/second)
- Designed and built a risk management platform for automated liquidation of underwater forex positions, achieving 100% uptime throughout its operational lifetime
- Managed sprint planning, backlog grooming, and hiring as team lead for the back-office interface team
- Collaborated directly with the CTO on architecture decisions for high-availability trading infrastructure
- Deep domain expertise in programmatic order execution, exchange protocols, and financial instrument types
Federation of State Medical Boards
Apr 2020 – Jul 2020
Platform Architect (Contract)
- Collaborated with VP of Information Services to design and deploy a Neo4j graph database powering product recommendations based on individual customer profiles, purchase history, and state medical licensure data
- Designed and implemented a mobile-first web application using Next.js, React, TypeScript, Apollo Federation, GraphQL, and Neo4j
- Automated deployment using Docker and Kubernetes on Azure AKS
Earlier Career
Pariveda Solutions (Consultant, 2010–2011) – Delivered projects for J.C. Penney, AmWINS Group, and other enterprise clients.
Mouser Electronics (Web Developer, 2010) – Built e-commerce catalog application that was a major revenue driver for the company.
Sogeti USA (Consultant, 2007–2010) – .NET development for Zale Corp, Allied Pilots Association, Darling International.
PepsiCo (QA Software Analyst, 2006–2007) – Built C# automation tools for mobile invoicing and inventory testing.
Education & Certifications
B.B.A., Decision Sciences
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Certified Secure Developer
Certified Technology Specialist, Web Applications