CGrowth Engineering - Chime
Software Engineer, Growth
Chime·2024 — Present
Joined into a lean backend and data engineering team that supports all paid marketing initiatives. With $350M+ annual ad spend, our team is responsible for enabling growth through ad placement, efficient CAC, and accurate attribution.
$360M+Enabling efficient ad placement and attribution, all with the goal of maximizing growth and minimizing cost.
2 weeks earlyDelivered affiliate vendor migration ahead of schedule, reducing affiliate CAC by 27% and time to market for new affiliates by ~3.5 weeks.
→Designed deferred deep-linking framework from scratch, enabling new mobile growth capabilities across multiple channels (Meta, Google, Tiktok)
→Building reliable, scalable, and maintainable data pipelines across multiple timeframes (daily, near real time, and real-time)
SparkSQLReactNativeData Engineering & IngestionTechnical LeadershipAirflow
CSupporting business critical systems - Capital One
Associate Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer
Capital One·2020 — 2024
Rose through the ranks to Senior Software Engineer, most recently at their in-house settlements & clearing platform, processing 15b in transactions daily. Before this team, I was on an enterprise contract data platform, which managed 10k suppliers data. Through these two teams, I learned system design, working cross-functionally, and driving outcomes in complex, regulated environments.
$15BYearly transaction volume processed by the platform I helped build and maintain
5 → 0Reduced annual incidents from 5 to zero by implementing an active-active failover architecture
33%Faster load times after refactoring ETL process that everyone had given up on
→Led team of 10 engineers for AWS migration, selected from 35 engineers as main POC to 3+ external orgs such as partnerships, trade credit, and auths
→Delivered enterprise AWS account migration ahead of schedule
AWSPythonSystem DesignTechnical LeadershipDistributed SystemsDynamoDB