Lead Software Engineer – Vice President

CTO Engineering Services & Control Platforms | Plano, TX | May 2026 – Present

• Serve as Engineering Lead and Application Owner for a Tier 1, business-critical platform responsible for providing enterprise-wide artifact metadata across JPMorgan Chase, with end-to-end accountability for architecture, engineering delivery, production reliability, operational risk, and long-term technical strategy
• Champion JPMorgan Chase's firmwide open-source governance strategy within the Office of the CTO, helping enable safe, scalable, and compliant open-source adoption across the enterprise
• Drive and operationalize the technical strategy for the Head of Open-Source Governance and Chief Open-Source Officer on firmwide open-source initiatives
• Partner with engineering organizations across JPMorgan Chase to translate enterprise open-source controls into scalable workflows that reduce developer friction while maintaining cybersecurity and compliance requirements
• Standardize implementation patterns and governance workflows across engineering organizations and lines of business
• Partner with Cybersecurity & Technology Controls to align open-source usage with risk and compliance standards
• Lead open-source initiatives involving AI/ML, GenAI, and large language models
• Support open-source community engagement, contribution workflows, and sponsorship strategy

Lead Software Engineer – Vice President

CCB Wealth Management Servicing | Plano, TX | August 2023 – May 2026

• Led the redesign and refactor of on-prem applications to AWS, enhancing system performance and scalability
• Delivered new advisor workflow features, improving user experience and reducing confusion for customers in CCB
• Spearheaded architectural discussions and system design for public cloud enablement, ensuring robust solutions
• Set and modeled clear team standards, and helped guide the team through technical leadership
• Provided technical mentorship to junior team members, fostering a culture of learning and growth

Senior Software Engineer

Bank Deposits Technology | Plano, TX | February 2022 – May 2022

• Served as the team's primary developer, driving improvements in code quality, system maintainability, technical innovation, and engineering standards

Technical Lead

Bank Deposits Technology | Plano, TX | October 2020 – February 2022

• Delivered a redesigned bank statement experience for all USAA member savings and checking accounts. Re-architected major components of the original design to decrease overall statement generation time and exceed performance requirements. Major technologies used include Java JBoss, Apache Kafka, Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, IBM DB2, Linux, Splunk, Kibana, and Prometheus
• Worked with business partners to define, scope, and prioritize functional and non-functional feature requirements
• Performed code reviews, led design sessions, and provided technical mentorship to team members

Software Engineer

Bank Deposits Technology | Plano, TX | April 2020 – October 2020

• Worked in a development team to redesign bank statements to a modern design, and to present all account information in a single consolidated view across web, mobile, and physical channels

Production, Innovation, and Governance Services | Plano, TX | September 2019 – April 2020

• Worked in a development team that was responsible for the creation and deployment of an internal tool that tracks the migration status of service accounts as they move from a legacy system to CyberArk. Major technologies used include: Angular 6, Java, Spring Boot, Gradle, Resilience4J, Docker, Kubernetes, Relational Databases (MSSQL, DB2)

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Software Engineer

Emerging Products | Seattle, WA | April 2018 – September 2019

• Worked on the back end of a distributed system that utilized technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Axon/CQRS, Docker, Kafka, Hystrix, and AWS to build microservices and RESTful APIs
• Worked closely with business partners to groom our project backlog, create stories, define acceptance criteria, demonstrate completed stories, and ensure that all stories meet our definition of done before being worked on
• Used Hystrix to add retry logic to parts of our system that interact with external services
• Integrated our system with DynamoDB global tables to ensure no duplication of processed events, and also to ensure a seamless system transition from one region to another in a disaster/failover scenario
• Built custom Swagger meta-annotations to increase code reuse and standardize API documentation
• On-boarded teams of developers to the back end of the project by creating technical documentation and leading a workshop where we discussed all relevant information required to start contributing to the project

Home Loans Servicing | Plano, TX | April 2017 – March 2018

• Designed and implemented a testing solution that involved wrapping a Spring Boot application around existing Selenium/Cucumber test automation and exposing it as a set of RESTful web services and a custom Swagger UI interface. The application was then Dockerized, and deployed to AWS for start of day production validations, infrastructure rehydrations, and L3 production support application monitoring
• Refactored and added new features to an internal application that tracks the progress of home loans as they move from the originations to servicing department. Angular Front end with a Java/Spring Back end
• Automated a manual internal audit process using Java, Splunk, and SQL. Splunk logs from our online portal were cross-referenced with loan boarding data to validate that only customers who clicked an "I accept" button on our terms and conditions page were enrolled in recurring payments. A PDF report was then generated outlining every loan that either passed or failed the audit
• Resolved 234 production support tickets, including 212 customer digital escalations
• Built a Jira Dashboard using Jira queries and filters that tracked my team's progress on resolving customer digital escalations. This was extremely effective in helping us stay on top of incoming issues, and helped us reduce our ticket backlog in a timely and efficient manner

Software Engineer

Pricing and Cash Management Services | Westlake, TX | January 2017 – March 2017

• Reverse engineered a Java web application from a WAR file (created through an Ant build) into a multi-module Maven project, while simultaneously migrating the application from Subversion to Git. This shrunk the size of the code base down from over 4 GB to approximately 45 MB, and improved the speed and consistency of each build
• Wrote scripts to automatically download, install, and configure software on Windows machines
• Installed and configured Jenkins agents to run on virtual machines
• Migrated over 50 test automation source code repositories from SVN to Git, and renamed each project to follow a consistent naming convention to make them more easily identifiable
• Created a Maven parent project that defined clear and specific build goals for compilation, testing, packaging, installation, deployment, and reporting

Associate Software Engineer

Pricing and Cash Management Services | Westlake, TX | January 2016 – January 2017

• Developed a migration strategy to move development teams and their code repositories from Subversion to Git
• Facilitated training sessions to teach source control concepts using Git, Stash, SourceTree, and different development workflows (Central Repository, Feature Branches, Gitflow)
• Onboarded new and existing applications to CI/CD Jenkins pipelines, and modified existing pipelines as needed
• Worked in a development team to create and maintain a library of common test automation functions in Java
• Migrated Java applications from Ant to Maven
• Converted manual test cases into automated tests, and incorporated them into existing CI/CD pipelines

Associate Software Engineer

Leap Program | Cary, NC | August 2015 – December 2015

• Completed training modules on Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, UNIX Essentials, Oracle 11g & Data Modeling, Big Data, Java/XML, The Spring Framework, Service Oriented Architecture, Dynamic Web Applications, and C#
• Developed a system for Fidelity's Asset Management division to import, normalize, and store data from credit rating agencies into Hadoop. This allowed the firm to find credit rating mismatches between that information and data imported from credit rating aggregation services, saving the company millions of dollars in liabilities

Technical Intern

Pricing and Cash Management Services | Westlake, TX | June 2014 – August 2014

• Constructed a web dashboard to showcase project overviews and associated metrics
• Managed and updated an online catalog of the services created

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