Sept 2018 - Present: Founding Engineer at Moov Financial and OSS moov-io

Projects

• Tech Lead for the payment rails (ACH, RTP, FedNow, FedWire) processing team, handling tens of billions of dollars in volume.
• Developed Automated Clearing House (ACH) services using Go, leveraging the industry-leading ACH library, ACH Gateway, testing tools, and debugging utilities.
• Built Real Time Payments (RTP) services in Go, including creating and patching open-source libraries for ISO 20022 compliance.
• Implemented FedNow Payments in Go with an open-source library compliant with ISO 20022 standards.
• Developed FedWire Payments in Go using an open-source library for ISO 20022 compliance.
• Senior developer on card acquiring and issuing teams, building services for card brands from the ground up using Moov-io's ISO 8583 and ISO 8583 Connection libraries.
• Lead developer for initial card settlement services and sweeping capabilities in the Moov platform.
• Initial developer of infrastructure components, including CI/CD systems using Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana/Loki, and Prometheus.

Roles and Challenges

• Maintained and designed open-source tools and ecosystem for developers, including:
• Bankcron - CLI wrapper for banking day operations
• CryptFS - Go library for transparent cryptographic file storage
• Watchman - AML/CTF/KYC/OFAC search engine for global watchlists, sanctions, and PEPs
• Led development and operations with dozens of services, ensuring stability, availability, and consistency across multiple scale points.
• Built, deployed, and scaled backend services and infrastructure for in-flight activity tracking, file retrieval, and payment processing.
• Automated updates across multiple teams with templated services and communication patterns.
• Consistent and high coverage of code scanning, vulnerability analysis, secure coding and design, high quality code.
• Fostered a culture of transparency, high trust, and autonomy during Moov's early growth.

Feb 2023 - Present: Founder of Recall Kitchen

• Built notification engine for product, vehicle, food, etc recalls.
• AI usage to ingest, summarize, analyze, and enrich recall notification for smart user notifications.
• MCP server for Agents to search recalls with x402 Payments for searches.
• Bootstrapped funding with low burn rate during consistent growth.

Jan 2014 - July 2018: Senior Software and Infrastructure Engineer at Banno

• Writing and supporting a platform of applications for the banking needs of consumers and financial institutions
• Creating and operating the various deployment, monitoring and analysis platforms.
• Technologies: Scala/Java, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Terraform, Hashicorp Vault, Prometheus, HBase, Elasticsearch, Kafka

Jan 2015 - May 2016: Co-Founder at Backline

• A platform for musical artists to discovery show and tour opportunities
• Market research and lead outreach for artists, music venues, studios and producers
• Technologies: AngularJS, AWS, Scala, Docker, PostgreSQL, Twilio

Nov 2011 - Dec 2013: Intern at Banno

• Support data aggregation and ingestion for online banking providers.
• Expanded developer tooling to minimize time to resolve issues.