What I do

Architect For Scale

Event-driven microservices on GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, BigQuery). Multi-region resiliency, SLOs, IaC, and cost control. Platforms scaled from $40M → $400M+ revenue; 5k+ TPS auctions.

Commerce Media & AdTech

Product listing and display auctions, on-site and off-site. Self-serve advertiser portal delivery. Measurement pipelines and data products for spend, pacing, and lift.

Lead & Mentor

Technical leadership across 6+ teams and 50+ engineers. Long-horizon mentorship for managers and senior ICs. Org design, hiring loops, and standards.

Align Tech & Business

Executive partnership, roadmapping, and risk burn-down. Outcome definitions, trade-off decisions, and staged delivery for critical bets.

Data & Platforms

Streaming and batch pipelines, warehouse marts, and APIs. Observability, incident response, and migration programs that reduce toil and latency.

Build-Buy-Partner Strategy

Vendor strategy, capability mapping, and M&A diligence. Negotiated $7M+ in contracts; internalized key execution systems when it created leverage.

Recent work

The Home Depot — Sr. Engineer to Sr. Principal Engineer (2012–Present) · Atlanta, GA/Remote

Held progressively senior roles supporting $5B+ e-commerce, $1B marketing tech, and $400M+ retail media initiatives. Led architecture, strategy, and cross-functional engineering leadership across distributed, cloud-native platforms.

  • Directed cloud architecture and engineering strategy, overseeing platform evolution and scaling initiatives that supported revenue growth from $40M to over $400M.
  • Partnered strategically with senior product and marketing leaders to align technology roadmaps with critical business outcomes, ensuring technical solutions directly supported revenue generation and market expansion.
  • Provided over 5 years of dedicated mentorship to engineering managers and senior Individual Contributors (ICs), fostering talent development and leading multiple successful team reorganizations to optimize performance and collaboration.
  • Set comprehensive technical direction across 6+ engineering teams, encompassing over 50 engineers, with a strong emphasis on resilient event-driven design and scalable microservices architectures.
  • Successfully negotiated over $7M in contracts for essential SaaS tools, advanced data platforms, and strategic vendor partnerships, optimizing technology spend and capabilities.

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About me

Profile

  • MBTI: ENTJ-T
  • Top CliftonStrengths: Learner, Intellection, Responsibility, Adaptability, Communication
  • Hogwarts House: Slytherin
  • Favored class: Cleric

Favorite quotes

  • “There is nothing so terrible as doing efficiently that which shouldn’t be done at all.” — Peter Drucker
  • “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” — Desmond Tutu

Perspective

I value outcome-driven strategy, resilient systems, and practical innovation with mentorship and community-building at the core. I believe in transforming people, processes, and technology in that order because that is how you make meaningful changs.