Senior Engineering Manager @ FloQast
Engineering leader and hands-on architect — I build the platform and the team that ships it.
Senior engineering leader with nearly two decades of professional experience spanning fintech, e-commerce, and high-traffic consumer platforms. I pair deep, current hands-on engineering with the leadership track record to scale teams, re-platform products end to end, and align technical strategy with the business.
About
My first programming lesson happened in a hospital server room. I was three years old, it was 1991, and my grandmother sat me down at a mainframe at Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis to teach me COBOL. I’ve been writing code ever since — which means I’ve spent nearly two decades doing it professionally and the better part of my life doing it for love.
That head start shaped how I work. I went on to study political science with a computer-science minor, deliberately pairing how systems of people work with how systems of software work. It turns out that combination is exactly what engineering leadership demands: the technical depth to design the right architecture, and the human judgment to build a team that can actually deliver it.
I’ve been the senior engineer leading a GraphQL orchestration layer at TripAdvisor and the executive owning an end-to-end re-platform at CrowdStreet. Today I’m a Senior Engineering Manager at FloQast leading roughly 20 engineers. I never stopped being hands-on — I just learned to multiply my impact through the people around me.
Impact
The throughline across fintech, e-commerce, AdTech, and high-traffic consumer products: I take ownership of the hardest technical bets and the teams responsible for landing them.
At CrowdStreet I led a ground-up rebuild — new APIs, frontends, databases, and pipelines — and migrated every existing user and investing account onto it. New foundations, zero loss of continuity, new lines of business unlocked.
From 15 developers across two countries at mGage to five teams at TVG to ~20 engineers at FloQast — I set technical direction, tighten delivery, and grow managers and senior ICs who raise the bar around them.
GraphQL orchestration at TripAdvisor, domain-driven design at mGage, Kubernetes delivery via Azure DevOps at Vana. I lead from a place of current, working technical depth — not a whiteboard memory of how to build.
Whether it’s commerce conversion at Arrive Outdoors, campaign delivery at mGage, or investor experience at CrowdStreet, I align roadmaps with outcomes the business actually cares about — and keep quality from being the thing that slips.
Experience
Reverse-chronological — from law-enforcement data systems in St. Louis to leading engineering organizations in Los Angeles and beyond.
FloQast Current
Lead a ~20-person engineering organization building accounting and financial-close automation used by finance teams worldwide.
CrowdStreet
Owned engineering for a commercial-real-estate investment platform, leading a ground-up re-platform that unlocked new lines of business.
Arrive Outdoors
Built and led engineering for a scalable outdoor-gear e-commerce platform from frontend to fulfillment.
mGage
Managed a 15-person developer and QA group across two countries delivering a SaaS campaign-management platform.
Vana
Led design and delivery of the govana.com e-commerce platform end to end.
TripAdvisor
Built and maintained software for high-traffic consumer sites and the services behind them.
Genius Sports Media
Led two engineering teams across an AdTech platform and a high-availability sports-data platform.
TVG
Led architecture for a .NET/C++ wagering platform, growing from team lead to lead architect across five teams.
Futuredontics
Built a SaaS self-service scheduling application on Angular and .NET.
No Limits
Designed a data-center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution.
Dougherty
Consulted for diverse St. Louis clients on software systems.
REJIS
Developed law-enforcement data systems for the Regional Justice Information Service.
Education
B.A. in Political Science, Minor in Computer Science
Paired a humanities degree with extensive computer-science coursework while working as an analyst and programmer for the university throughout the program.
Capabilities
A full-stack, polyglot foundation — deep in the .NET and TypeScript ecosystems, comfortable across cloud providers, and grounded in the leadership practices that make the technology ship.
Contact
Whether you’re hiring engineering leadership, comparing notes on scaling teams, or just want to connect — my inbox is open.
$ based in Los Angeles, CA · open to remote leadership roles