25+ years building systems people depend on.

Principal Architect

2024–Present

GIPHY, a Shutterstock company

Set technical direction across GIPHY’s monetization, advertising, search, delivery, partner, and platform systems. Led architecture and implementation for multi-partner advertising networks and privacy-conscious targeting, balancing regulatory requirements, user trust, reliability, and infrastructure cost.

• Led architecture and implementation for advertising systems spanning multiple subsystems and partner sales channels, creating new revenue channels across GIPHY’s consumer and partner surfaces.
• Expanded advertising capability while preserving user trust and regulatory compliance as product requirements.
• Led architecture and implementation for advertising networks spanning multiple subsystems and partner sales channels.
• Introduced privacy-conscious targeting built on ethically sourced data and designed around applicable global privacy regulations.
• Design review, migrations, reliability work, incident learning, and cost-aware operational ownership.

Software Engineer

2022–2024

Shutterstock Create

Rejoined Shutterstock following the PicMonkey acquisition to help integrate and evolve the company’s browser-based creative platform. Helped deliver Shutterstock Create, contributed to the team that created Shutterstock’s first AI image-editing tool, and helped transition away from the earlier Shutterstock Editor while working across product engineering, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, deployment, and production support.

• Helped deliver Shutterstock Create.
• Contributed to the team that created Shutterstock’s first AI image-editing tool.
• Helped transition away from and retire the earlier Shutterstock Editor platform.
• Product engineering for browser-based creative tooling.
• Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, delivery, and production operations.

Employee #6

2020–2022

Enterprise MLOps and model management

As employee #6, owned everything that touched the browser for an enterprise MLOps platform. Took over customer-facing product and web ownership from the CTO, led three frontend contractors, and worked across React, GraphQL, release engineering, CI/CD, enterprise integrations, customer support, and production on-call.

• Owned every browser-facing surface end to end, from the React frontend through GraphQL resolvers and backend API integrations.
• Led three overseas frontend contractors.
• Maintained tests, builds, releases, operations integrations, and customer delivery for the web stack.

US salaried technical employee #4

July 2019–April 2020

Cloud systems for a location-based multiplayer VR platform

As US salaried technical employee #4, was hired to lead Sandbox VR’s cloud systems: everything outside the game servers running in stores. Owned architecture, delivery, and operations across the web product, booking, subscriptions, global leaderboards, marketing systems, deployment, and production support. The role ended when the location-based business shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Led the cloud platform outside the game servers running at store locations.
• Owned web, booking, subscriptions, global leaderboards, and marketing systems.
• Builds, deployments, and 24/7 production on-call for online services.

Software Developer

November 2015–July 2019

Shutterstock Editor and core marketplace

Helped build Shutterstock Editor, the company’s browser-based image-editing product. Led internationalization efforts, partner SDK development, and migration to AWS and Kubernetes, while also contributing to cart, checkout, and legacy Perl-to-Node modernization on the core marketplace.

• Full-stack feature development across JavaScript, React, HTML Canvas, WebGL, and Node.js.
• Lead engineering work for internationalization, a partner SDK, and the AWS and Kubernetes migration.
• Rotating 24/7 production on-call.

Senior Developer / Feature Technical Lead

November 2013–November 2015

Consumer Technology Group · Multi-room HTML5 DVR

Built core features for Time Warner Cable’s multi-room HTML5 DVR platform, serving as a feature technical lead across an onshore/offshore team and contributing to release tooling and Tier 4 beta support.

• Core product features in a performance-constrained embedded browser environment.
• Feature technical leadership, build and release scripting, and Tier 4 beta support.

Developer / Application Architect

October 2011–November 2013

Embedded television and mobile client systems

Delivered embedded television and mobile systems for Accenture clients, spanning an HTML5 DVR interface and a native iOS operational-data application backed by a secure .NET service.

• End-to-end HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features with automated unit and integration tests for an embedded DVR interface.
• Objective-C, Core Plot, and Core Data work for a native iOS application.
• Designed a .NET WCF service to transform and securely serve operational data.

Software Test Engineer

October 2005–October 2011

Carbide.c++ Development Tools

Built automated testing and CI systems for Nokia’s Carbide.c++ smartphone-development tools, led a test team of up to six engineers, and developed Linux toolchain support for Qt/Symbian projects.

• Supported Hudson/Jenkins continuous-integration systems and designed automated tests.
• Led a test team of up to six engineers.
• Developed Linux toolchain components for Qt/Symbian projects.

Software Test Engineer / Factory Test Engineer

March 2000–October 2005

CodeWarrior and embedded development boards

Began at Metrowerks working on CodeWarrior and embedded development-board tooling, continuing through Motorola’s acquisition and the Freescale spin-off. Built automated IDE, SDK, framework, and factory-acceptance tests across Mac and embedded platforms.

• Automated testing for Mac applications, IDE plug-ins, templates, examples, and application frameworks.
• Factory and system-integration tests for microcontroller development boards using C and assembly.