Profile
Engineering systems where correctness, speed, and cost all matter.
I have 8+ years of experience at Target building payment platforms, order management services, observability tooling, and enterprise workflow automation. My work spans architecture, production reliability, platform standards, and cross-team delivery for systems that handle critical retail transactions at scale.
Featured Work
Systems work with measurable production impact.
Payment Modernization
$2M+ annual savings
Apple Pay v2 Migration
Architected and delivered a high-volume payment migration that generated $2M+ annual savings, reduced soft declines to fewer than 50 per day, and improved processing time by 1.5-2x.
Fraud / Bot Orchestration
P99 <20ms
Payment Orchestration Layer
Designed a low-latency decisioning layer that coordinated fraud and bot integrations while keeping payment authorization paths fast, observable, and resilient to downstream processor health, avoiding $20K/month in cost.
Data Integrity
Financial correctness
Payment Event Idempotency and Reconciliation
Standardized payment event identifiers and designed reconciliation flows for distributed transaction state, reducing duplicate-charge risk and improving financial auditability.
Data Platform Migration
10+ TB removed
Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration
Designed a dual-database architecture with 90 days of operational data, 13 months of historical retention, and a custom Kafka migration pipeline for invoice processing.
Observability
100+ users
Payments Investigation Tools
Built self-service investigation tooling for payment operators and partner teams, turning repeated manual triage into searchable, guided workflows.
AI Automation
GenAI workflows
Enterprise Workflow Automation
Built a workflow automation platform for deterministic enterprise tasks, connecting internal LLM capabilities with agent tools and backend execution patterns.
Testing Strategy
500K-1M BINs
BIN Regression Validation
Designed automated regression validation for complex BIN processing logic, enabling safer iteration across hundreds of thousands of payment transformations.
Internal Platform
300+ employees
Peer Recognition Platform
Co-created a production internal recognition platform from a hackathon prototype, partnering across engineering teams and expanding adoption across the Target Tech organization.
Experience
A Target engineering path from services to platforms.
Lead Software Engineer, Payments Platform
Payment architecture, fraud and bot orchestration, processor health routing, reconciliation, observability, and AI workflow automation.
Senior Software Engineer, Payments & Order Management
Store order modernization, invoice processing, Oracle to PostgreSQL migration, Kafka standards, testing platforms, and production recovery.
Software Engineer
Order ingestion, inventory services, automated validation, mobile checkout payments, CI/CD, and operational analytics.
Software Engineering Internships
Built features and tests for a Parsons network visualization app using Java and JavaScript; designed and unit tested Hitachi Data Systems automation infrastructure features using Python and Java.
Technical Strengths
Depth across backend systems, payments, and reliability.
Backend
Kotlin, Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Spring Boot, Micronaut, REST APIs
Distributed Systems
Kafka, microservices, event-driven architecture, idempotency, reconciliation
Payments
Payment processing, routing, fraud and bot orchestration, processor health
Reliability
Production support, SRE practices, observability, Grafana, Kibana, DOMO
Data Platforms
PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, private cloud platforms
Automation
Docker, CI/CD, Google ADK, Spring AI, MCP, OpenAI-compatible LLM workflows
Education
Analytics and computer engineering foundation.
Georgia Institute of Technology - Master of Science in Analytics
Rochester Institute of Technology - Bachelor of Computer Engineering
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