Summary

Experienced software engineer with an unconventional background. Passionate about problem solving, going deep and wide, learning new concepts, and thinking about what needs to be done to scale a system to ever higher volumes.

Experience

Ramp

New York, NY
November 2021 - Present

Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Platform

December 2025 - Present
  • Working to scale Ramp for future growth!

Staff Software Engineer, Card Platform

September 2024 - December 2025
  • Engaged in a redesign of how credit card transaction processing works at Ramp.

Senior Software Engineer, Card Platform

June 2023 - September 2024
  • Reworked how webhook handling works at Ramp to improve reliability, observability, and serviceability.
  • Substantially refactored card issuing logic at Ramp to pay off technical debt, improve flexibility, and place Ramp in a better position to expand internationally.
  • Identified over $300,000 of annual AWS cloud savings for our primary RDS instance.

Senior Software Engineer, Bill Pay & Payments Platform

March 2023 - June 2023
  • Built the infrastructure to identify payments to be sent using state money transmitter licenses and direct payments to the correct bank account for payment.
  • Developed infrastructure to be leveraged for producing payment receipts, including PDF rendering and automating retrieval of payment trace details.

Software Engineer, Bill Pay & Payments Platform

November 2021 - March 2023
  • Added support for international payments, allowing Ramp to generate revenue from its Bill Pay product by charging for international payments.
  • Extended Ramp’s payments platform to support a variety of internal payments use cases, including an initiative that dramatically lowered Ramp’s cost of capital for settling purchases on cards
  • Migrated FBO money transmission payments to a new BaaS provider, providing millions of dollars of COGS cost savings for Bill Pay and Reimbursements.
  • Triaged and resolved customer issues that were escalated to engineers.

Branch Technologies, Inc.

Kirkland, WA (working remotely)
February 2021 - October 2021

University of West Georgia

Carrollton, GA
January 2019 - December 2020

Mineteria, Inc. / Voldex Services

Remote
March 2018 - February 2021

Tebex Limited

Nottingham, UK (working remotely)
November 2015 - August 2017

Skills

Programming Languages

  • Java
  • Python
  • HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Go
  • Elixir
  • SQL (mostly PostgreSQL)

Technologies

  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Django
  • SQLAlchemy
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • Temporal
  • Netty

DevOps

  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • CI/CD: BuildKite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins

Education

University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
August 2017 - May 2021