Edulyze
Head of Engineering / Founding Team
Oct 2024 - PresentRemote
Building a K-12 enrollment operations platform and leading engineering strategy, product delivery, customer implementations, and AI initiatives.
Technologies: C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, OpenAI, Gemini, AWS/CDK, RDS, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, VPC, WAF, KMS, ECR, CloudFront, GCP, Azure
PowerSchool
Engineering Manager
Oct 2020 - Oct 2024Remote
Joined as tech lead on Schoology, PowerSchool's learning management system (LMS), serving millions of daily users, and was promoted to engineering manager within 10 months.
- More than doubled a globally distributed engineering organization from 5 to 12 across two Scrum teams in the US and India, hiring 5 and mentoring multiple engineers into Senior and Lead Engineer roles.
- Led PowerBuddy AI integrations adopted by 50+ beta customers and used as a strategic sales driver in closing a major enterprise agreement with a 100K+ student district.
- Led delivery of Annotation Assignments, growing adoption to nearly 2 million assignments created.
- Owned on-call rotations and incident response for Schoology, serving millions of daily users against a 99.9% SLA; sustained 99.95% uptime through peak back-to-school demand and broadened coverage by adding engineers to the on-call rotation.
- Prioritized API modernization with Product alongside feature delivery, then led the architecture and rollout while co-architecting and building with a Principal Architect; reduced database load by 30% and p95 response times by 45%, saving thousands of dollars per month.
- Aligned performance management, compensation planning, promotions, organizational design, and staffing to product priorities, helping sustain 95% voluntary retention across multiple Scrum teams.
Technologies: PHP, TypeScript, React, AWS, MySQL, Serverless, Kubernetes (K8s), Datadog, New Relic, Sentry
Hoonuit (acquired by PowerSchool)
Product & Engineering Manager and Tech Lead
Apr 2019 - Oct 2020Remote
- Served as the direct manager for Mizuni's 7-person engineering team for six months following its acquisition by Hoonuit, sustaining delivery continuity through integration while retaining every engineer.
- Led technical execution for complex district and state implementations supporting multi-million-dollar ARR customer relationships.
- Architected, implemented, and rolled out database-migration automation that standardized schema deployments and enabled the company's first continuous delivery pipeline; secured C-suite and VP support across Product and Engineering and drove organization-wide adoption.
- Architected a cloud ETL and integration platform that reduced ingestion timelines by 10x and cut delivery time for new source systems roughly in half while improving maintainability for customer-specific work.
Technologies: Java, SQL Server, Python, JavaScript, Azure, Docker
Mizuni (acquired by Hoonuit)
Director of Product Innovation
Mar 2004 - Mar 2019Dallas, TX
Joined the founding team as a data analyst and advanced through engineering and product leadership roles to Director of Product Innovation, ultimately owning product direction and a three-engineer development team.
- Led the full-stack re-architecture of the customer-facing analytics platform across UX, frontend, APIs, and the data layer, moving the product from on-premises deployments to fully cloud-hosted SaaS serving 1M+ students and teachers.
- Built a program management module that generated $300K+ in standalone ARR.
- Built and led a three-engineer team, owning hiring and technical delivery while remaining hands-on in product development, customer demos, and implementations.
- Partnered with executive leadership on product strategy, technical sales, and acquisition planning through the company's successful multimillion-dollar acquisition by Hoonuit.
Technologies: C#, .NET, SQL Server, JavaScript, Vue.js, AWS