Candidate ID: #22
Location: Winter Garden, FL

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

• Current/Most Recent: 7+ years (2018–Present) holding Lead Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineering Manager roles at MarginEdge – Led and grew 3 cross-functional engineering teams (14 engineers) responsible for business-critical workflows, integrations, and platform scalability
• Past: 20+ years of progressive software engineering and technical leadership across EdTech (Hobsons), higher education (University of Maryland), and enterprise consulting – Deep experience building and scaling high-performance SaaS platforms, asynchronous architectures (AWS, Java, Spring), and modernizing legacy monolithic services into event-driven, service-oriented architectures

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Team Leadership & Scaling – Led and scaled 3 cross-functional engineering teams totaling 14 engineers, driving a culture of ownership while hiring, mentoring, and conducting promotion planning to develop senior contributors and future tech leads
• AI & ML Product Innovation – Drove the development of AI-assisted document ingestion and workflow automation features, and built machine learning models using TensorFlow, Keras, and a VGG16 deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to boost invoice processing accuracy
• Architecture Modernization & Cloud Systems – Spearheaded the transition from legacy monolithic systems to event-driven, service-oriented architectures to reduce operational risk and improve fault isolation; architected cloud workflows using AWS SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, and Textract, and re-architected batch systems using Docker and AWS
• ECS Engineering Rigor & Productivity – Championed engineering excellence through standardized code reviews, automated testing strategies, and the integration of developer AI productivity tooling such as Claude Code; enhanced CI/CD automation pipelines using Jenkins and CloudFormation