Forward Financing
Staff Applied AI Engineer Dec 2025 – Present
Selected to launch the company's zero-to-one Applied AI initiative. Helped hire and form a four-engineer team to bring generative AI into a fintech product suite.
- Helped recruit the team, define the technical stack, and set the first roadmap for AI prototyping.
- Built and shipped an LLM agent for collections contact discovery, from architecture to production, with tracing, output safety filters, and PII scrubbing.
- Stood up Temporal as the team's shared orchestration platform for durable, retryable agent workflows.
- Scoped a bank statement automation program and built the production workflows for its OCR and repayment-classification agents.
Staff Software Engineer Feb 2024 – Dec 2025
Technical lead on Data Engineering, delivering fast, scalable pipelines for machine learning and analytics.
- Built a streaming data pipeline for small business financing with the Analytics department.
- Eliminated over $180,000 in annual maintenance spend and enabled real-time machine learning.
- Cut cost per application by more than 30% with OCR and automated decisioning.
- Aligned executive stakeholders on requirements and delivery.
- As President of the Developer Experience Guild, drove a 20 to 40% improvement in DORA metrics by improving the developer environment and SDLC.
Senior Software Engineer Dec 2021 – Feb 2024
Built real-time pipelines that feed machine learning models, using Python, Amazon SageMaker, and Node.js. Earlier, served on the Digital Security and Compliance team across Rails, React, Elixir, and Go microservices.
- Enabled over $4M in revenue by partnering with Legal on regulatory requirements.
- Audited application security with open-source tooling and enforced secure coding practices across engineering.