Work

Senior Software Engineer

Empower / Petal Card 2024 - Present

Building financial product systems across backend services, event-driven repayment workflows, third-party integrations, customer-facing analytics, and shared web/mobile product surfaces.

  • StackPython, Go, C#, React, React Native, Redux, LangChain, OpenAI, AWS
  • SystemsLambda, SQS, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy

Selected Work

  • Scaled and maintained a large monorepo supporting 150,000+ daily active users with a hybrid GitHub Actions and AWS CodeDeploy CI/CD workflow.
  • Designed and shipped the Settlement Offers system, an event-driven Lambda and SQS workflow that proposes discount-based repayment options by delinquency bucket.
  • Integrated third-party cashback providers Kard and Dosh through Go and Python microservices.
  • Unified Empower and Petal Card architectures with the Facade Pattern, enabling cross-system communication between C# and Python services.
  • Built customer-facing GenAI analytics features with LangChain and OpenAI pipelines to analyze spending behavior and surface insights in React and React Native.
  • Delivered scalable UI components across web, iOS, and Android while keeping feature parity across platforms.

Impact

  • Settlement Offers contributed to a 40% reduction in default rates.
  • Improved product delivery across backend, web, and mobile teams by sharing service contracts and reusable UI patterns.
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