Built and scaled engineering platforms serving millions of users across healthcare, connected devices, and network security — delivering acquisitions, $24M+ ARR products, and 70× platform growth. Transforms engineering organizations through Agile discipline, research-driven automation, and deliberate AI adoption — building teams that ship faster, cost less, and operate independently.
Professional Experience
Blink Health · Westford, MA
- Platform Strategy & Governance — steered platform evolution across cloud pharmacy fulfillment, patient purchase experiences, and customer engagement; led trade-off decisions balancing feature velocity with technical excellence
- Engineering Organization Development — developed teams into high-performing units with strict operational discipline; promoted 3+ engineers into leadership roles, expanding capacity to own delivery independently
- Architectural Leadership & Scale — directed platform evolution enabling 70× volume growth; migrated from monolithic legacy to event-driven microservices on native AWS with workflow orchestration and comprehensive observability
- AI-Driven SDLC Optimization — championed AI adoption across the SDLC; integrated AI-driven test frameworks, automated proactive risk assessments, and leveraged anomaly detection to improve lifecycle efficiency by over 20%
- AI Operationalization & Governance — operationalized autonomous AI agent frameworks in regulated pharmacy operations with PHI-compliant automated redaction and human-in-the-loop validation gates
- Product Outcomes — delivered touchless prescription processing (40% new scripts, 70% auto-refills); reduced benefits discovery from 4+ hours to under 30 minutes; cut operational costs per script by 50%+
Amazon Lab126 · Cambridge, MA
- Common Speech Middleware Strategy — led development and architectural strategy for Alexa, a critical orchestration layer serving 10M+ active devices across Echo, Fire TV, Fire Cube, and Fire Tablet
- Cross-Functional Alignment — partnered with Alexa executive leadership and hardware teams to balance feature velocity with architectural compatibility across diverse form factors
- Operational Excellence & Scale — managed and mentored 8–12 software engineers, driving exceptional standards across the massive device fleet
- Platform Extensibility — led architectural design for Alexa Local Voice Control, decoupling device functionality from cloud dependencies for ultra-low-latency offline features
Corero Network Security · Marlborough, MA
- Product Innovation — led end-to-end concept-to-production development of the flagship "First Line of Defense" DDoS platform, concept to market in under 12 months with 12–15 engineers
- Market & Architecture Scale — drove 3×–5× expansion of deployed customer base over 2 years; pioneered the architecture that remains Corero's core commercial product
- Agile Transformation — drove organization-wide Agile methodology transformation, increasing delivery velocity while managing concurrent pipelines across new and legacy releases
Arbor Networks (Ellacoya Networks) · Merrimack, NH
- Global Delivery — managed distributed teams across US and India; achieved carrier-grade application detection at 20 Gbps line rate for Tier 1 service providers
- Security Research & Academic Collaboration — founded the Application Signature Research group, scaling the database from under 100 to 1,000+ patterns; collaborated with UMass Amherst on P2P detection
- Automation & IP — architected automated signature validation lab, shrinking verification from days to hours; awarded US Patent for heuristics-based detection algorithms
Alcatel-Lucent (WaterCove Networks) · Chelmsford, MA
- Architected the platform that became the first intelligent, high-availability GGSN commercially deployed worldwide — session rates 5× industry standard
- Won Orange UK as first customer; directly contributed to company's acquisition by Alcatel
Lucent Technologies & Newbridge Networks · Westford & Andover, MA
- Technical Lead for LAN Emulation, BGP-4 routing protocol integration, and high-capacity ATM switching at carrier scale — foundational C/C++ on VxWorks RTOS
Education & Credentials
Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
Capstone: AI-Native Platform Strategy and Org Transformation Framework
A heuristics-based algorithm engineered to capture and classify application signatures at carrier line rates
Delhi College of Engineering (Delhi Technological University), India