Technology executive with 18+ years specializing in enterprise modernization and distributed team leadership. Currently VP at a $100M+ 3PL operator where I lead ~40 engineers across the United States and Pune, India, executing a multi-year transformation replacing two decades of legacy systems with cloud-native architecture. Track record: rebuilt a 20-year-old ERP into cloud SaaS in 5–6 months, cut infrastructure costs 87%, scaled distributed teams across continents while maintaining 99.5%+ uptime.Hands-on at every level — I write code, review pull requests, take on-call shifts, and lead technical strategy for executives, partners, and customers. Early adopter of AI tooling (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) for code generation, architecture, and deployment automation across the engineering lifecycle.
06Professional Experience
Vice President, Software Applications Development
2023 — Present
Capacity LLC · Cliffside Park, NJ
Leadership mandate: Own the full software application portfolio for a $100M+ 3PL operator — warehouse management, order fulfillment, EDI integrations, shipping, client portals, and mission-critical data infrastructure.
Distributed team execution: Lead ~40 engineers across US headquarters and a development center in Pune, India on a single engineering cadence with zero timezone chaos. Established written-doc-first culture, overlapping working hours, and product-aligned squads with shared platform team.
Modernization leadership: Executing multi-year transformation replacing 20+ years of legacy Windows, ColdFusion, classic ASP, and InterBase with containerized, cloud-native architecture on Azure. Running every migration behind feature flags, dual-writes, and reconciliation harnesses — zero operational disruption.
Outcomes to date: Maintained 99.5%+ uptime during major migrations, 3× improvement in deployment frequency, infrastructure modernization on track for $2M+ annual savings.
AI-driven team scaling: Institutionalized Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini for code generation, code review, architecture drafting, and deployment automation, measurably cutting development cost and accelerating delivery.
Director of Engineering
Sept 2019 — 2023
Jumper Software LLC · New York, NY
Modernization from zero: Hired as first engineer to rebuild a 20+ year-old bespoke ERP (customized to parent company GoodMart) into a multi-tenant, cloud-ready B2B SaaS platform in 5–6 months — a 10× acceleration over typical modernization timelines.
Cost optimization: Migrated from self-hosted infrastructure to AWS, cutting monthly spend from ~$15,000 to under $2,000 — a −87% reduction achieved through architectural redesign, not infrastructure cost-cutting.
Business impact: New platform enabled parent company GoodMart to scale from ~$3M to ~$12M annual revenue over four years — 4× growth directly powered by modernized architecture.
Architecture for scale: Partitioned monolith into bounded-context modules so each feature could be packaged and sold as a turn-key solution, enabling new business models.
Team building: Assembled deliberately multi-generational engineering team and established coding standards and mentorship culture across all experience levels.
Engineering Lead, Integrations Platform
Feb 2019 — Sept 2019
TodayTix · New York, NY
Platform leadership: Led Integrations Platform squad responsible for mission-critical connections to 1,300+ external ticketing partners.
Defect triage at scale: Inherited 1,200+ defect backlog (some 2.5–3 years old) and established repeatable SLA-based triage process; processed and resolved critical items while team maintained platform reliability and shipped new features.
Major partner integrations shipped: "Pick Your Own Seat" on seats.io / AudienceView; Cirque du Soleil franchise ticketing launch; UK and Sydney market expansion.
Infrastructure modernization: Dockerized entire developer environment and partnered with SRE to containerize staging and production systems.
Lead Engineer, Platform Team
June 2017 — Feb 2019
PHIDO (technology arm of Phillips Pet Food & Supplies) · New York, NY
Platform architecture: Designed system for trading-partner information exchange enabling drop-shipping and Shopify integrations that turned Phillips' retail network into a national digital shelf.
System modernization: Replaced legacy monolith with microservices architecture; built EDI invoice reconciliation pipeline and refund-management subsystem.
Infrastructure as code: Modernized development and deployment practices with Vagrant, Ansible, Terraform, and Docker; trained engineering team on new operating model.
Vice President of Engineering
Feb 2016 — May 2017
TiqIQ Inc. (TicketIQ.com) · New York, NY
Ran a 10-person distributed engineering team for a ticket-aggregation search engine across primary and secondary markets, plus iOS and Android apps.
Owned the engineering budget, project/product timelines, and QA workflow; introduced Agile/Scrum practices and Trello-based project management.
Re-architected high-traffic pages for measurable page-load wins; resolved numerous performance bugs while staying hands-on in the codebase.
Mentored junior engineers and interns across a distributed team.
Lead Software Architect & Principal Engineer
June 2015 — Feb 2016
Boxbee Inc. · New York, NY
Re-architected an on-demand storage and logistics SaaS platform onto a microservices pattern, leading three backend Java engineers and two front-end developers.
Wore every hat — system architect, technical lead, L2 production support, mentor, SME, project manager — across most projects in the IT portfolio.
Migrated the mission-critical WMS from 32-bit InterBase 7.5 on Windows Server 2003 to 64-bit InterBase XE3 on Server 2008 R2 without paid vendor support.
Designed and shipped a unified ASP.NET membership security framework spanning Classic ASP, ColdFusion, ASP.NET, and SSRS with shared sessions.
Built GS1-128 barcode label tooling (C# WinForms + WCF), the auto-packing algorithms (Put-To-Light, Distro Packing, X12 940 Pre-Pack), and the ConnectShip-integrated shipping label module the floor still uses today.
Designed and implemented dozens of EDI X12 integrations (940, 856, 810 et al.), DTS/SSIS pipelines, and FTP/SFTP data-exchange frameworks for trading-partner integrations.
Built cross-docking, yard management, and transloading operations on ProfitTools.
Senior Programmer Analyst
Feb 2007 — Nov 2007
Cardinal Health Inc. · Houston, TX
Built Rx-eSource, a remote medication-review platform reducing medication errors and improving patient safety — ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server 2005, ASMX web services, Crystal Reports.
Designed audit-and-review workflows for medication surveys with multiple actors; assisted in SQL Server 2000→2005 migration.
.NET Developer (Intern)
Aug 2006 — Jan 2007
BMW Group · FZ-10 IT Innovation Management · Munich, Germany
Designed and built a SharePoint 2007 collaboration platform for the FZ-10 "Strategy, Group IT Planning & Control" division.
Developed custom web parts ("Technologie Roadmap Innovationen", "Steckbrief Generation") using .NET 1.1/2.0, ASP.NET, C#, and Oracle 10g.
Earlier roles
2002 — 2006
C++ Programmer (intern) · FH Lausitz · Schäfter+Kirchhoff (CCD line-scan camera DIP) · Dept. of Medical Electronics (image reconstruction with Wiener filter). Sr. Technical Analyst · EDS India (BellSouth support). .NET Web Developer · Innovative Maritime Solutions (Mumbai). Hardware Support Engineer · Fusion Software (Apple devices, Mumbai). Software Programmer Intern · Siemens Information Systems (PC-based access control, Mumbai).