Work Experience
Walmart Global Tech / Jet.com
Hoboken, NJ
Director, Engineering, Search Runtime
May 2021 – Present- Lead and grow a 30-person platform engineering team at Walmart's NYC hub, owning key search systems: Typeahead, Spellcheck, Query Understanding, ML inference runtime, and filtering.
- Transformed typeahead platform, expanding dataset coverage and boosting customer engagement.
- Launched deep-learning spellcheck, driving a 35 bps GMV lift across Walmart eCommerce.
- Modernized query understanding runtime, cutting time-to-market for new features.
- Automated change-tracking, saving 2,500+ engineering hours annually.
- Pioneered contextual search platform, enabling real-time personalization at scale.
Senior Engineer Manager II, Intelligent Retail Lab
Jan 2018 - May 2021- Hired and managed a team of 6 engineers to build asset protection technology deployed chain-wide, reducing shrink by $350M annually.
- Designed a biometric ID system for a confidential in-store initiative.
Principal Software Engineer / Technical Lead
May 2014 - Jan 2018- Early engineering leader at Jet.com, contributing to rapid scale-up and eventual $3.3B acquisition by Walmart.
- Architected and delivered Jet.com's third-party merchant APIs in F#/.NET, powering hundreds of millions of daily events, ensuring platform reliability and scalability in a hypergrowth environment.
Quidsi (an Amazon company)
Jersey City, NJ
Senior Programmer Analyst
2010 - 2014- Developed inventory forecasting and management systems, streamlining fulfillment and reducing out-of-stocks across multiple Amazon-owned brands.
White & Case LLP
New York, NY
Applications Development Engineer
2008 - 2010Beard Miller Company
Reading, PA