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2024 - Present
Luxury Presence Real Estate & PropTech - Los Angeles, CA Associate Director of Engineering
- Associate Director of Engineering (Flagship) (July 2025 - Present)
- Engineering Manager (Mid Market & Celebrity) (Nov 2024 - July 2025)
- Group Engineering leader for Luxury Presence's flagship products, supervising an org of 4 engineering teams (~20 engineers).
- Scaled a client solutions engineering team of 5-6 full-stack product engineers as a player-coach responsible for supporting mid-market, enterprise and celebrity customers.
- Doubled mid-market revenue YoY (2025) by shipping high-leverage product experiences on time and on budget, which increased revenue amongst our most retentive customer base.
- Accelerated throughput and quality in mid-market initiatives by onboarding new AI tools (Devin.ai) and AirOps, allowing the team to deliver AI-powered solutions and leverage AI to move faster.
- Led the overhaul of our quality process to include new GenAI tooling to introduce quality gates and improve code quality while reducing time spent on manual testing.
- Led the build-out of LP's public API.
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2024
Dorsia Restaurant Tech & Hospitality Marketplace - Los Angeles, CA Engineering Manager
- Engineering Manager (Apr 2024 - Oct 2024)
- Managed a team of 4 full-stack engineers as a player-coach responsible for supporting growth initiatives at Dorsia.
- Supported the build-out of a new marketplace vertical (live event ticketing) in addition to supporting the core product (dining experiences).
- Led the engineering effort to build an exclusive paid membership platform.
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2020 - 2024
Opendoor Labs Inc. Real Estate & FinTech - Los Angeles, CA Sr. Engineering Manager
- Sr. Engineering Manager (2022 - 2024)
- Engineering Manager (2020 - 2022)
- Eng leader responsible for the end-to-end Buyer experience across the web (Rails/React) and mobile (React Native) products.
- Hired and managed 8-10 direct reports (across multiple teams) organized in cross-functional teams spanning eng / product / operations / design to deliver on business objectives in an OKR-driven organization.
- Accelerated impact by triaging workflow inefficiencies in engineering and design process.
- Worked with product owners to balance innovation needs with long-term initiatives driven by a technical roadmap.
- Eng leader responsible for scaling the Buyer Product to 53 markets in 2023.
- Led the team that built and scaled Opendoor Backed Offers (Cash Offers) which has serviced over $1B in inventory.
- Supported various Buyer eng teams serving as the eng manager throughout my tenure: Buyer Products, Buy+Finance (Mortgage), Market Expansion, Winning Offers (Cash Offers), Buyer Engagement, and Retail.
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2017 - 2020
Wag! Labs Inc. On-Demand Pet Marketplace - West Hollywood, CA Sr. Mobile Engineering Manager
- Sr. Mobile Engineering Manager (2019 - 2020)
- iOS Engineering Manager (2018 - 2019)
- Lead iOS Engineer (2017 - 2018)
- Started as a hands-on technical lead and grew responsibilities to supporting the entire mobile product across iOS + Android.
- Directly managed a team of 16+ engineers (iOS + Android) as the leader responsible for all mobile engineering.
- Supported engineering in a high-growth, fast-paced, experiment-driven organization.
- Managed a weekly release train process across all our mobile products, including managing an iOS enterprise distributed app.
- Helped scale the mobile team workflows and process to meet the needs of the business, including scaling the iOS team from 2 to 10+ engineers. Was hands-on in the sourcing, recruiting, evaluation and onboarding of all mobile team members.
- Experience working in an on-demand services marketplace product: app for dog walkers + app for dog owners.
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2014 - 2017
Cirruspath Inc. Enterprise CRM - Irvine, CA Director of Mobile Development
- Director of Mobile Development (2016 - 2017)
- Sr. Mobile Software Engineer (iOS) (2014 - 2016)
- Hired and scaled a cross-functional eng team: Eng (iOS, Android and BE) / QA / PM / Design.
- Led a team of in-house and offshore resources to support the mobile products.
- Served as a hands-on technical leader splitting time between leadership and IC needs.
- Built Cirrus Insight Mobile, a custom email client built natively using (Objective-C and Java).
- Worked alongside the team to ship SaaS features for enterprise users (Fortune 100 customers).
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2013 - 2014
Onescreen Inc. Ad Tech & Streaming - Irvine, CA Software Engineer - Consumer Applications
- Software Engineer - Consumer Applications (iOS) (2013 - 2014)
- Created several consumer-facing video streaming apps for iPad (Powerblock RTM and The Young Turks).
- Responsible for all iOS projects and coordinated cross-platform development with other teams.
- Developed and maintained proprietary iOS frameworks for use by Onescreen and its clients.
- Built a native custom video player that complied with iAB VAST 3.0 and iAB VMAP 1.0 to support native ad integrations with adaptively streamed content.
- Extensive experience with Apple HLS, mobile advertising and adaptive streaming technologies.
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2011 - 2013
KTLA Inc. News & Broadcasting - Hollywood, CA Computer Tech - Dept of Engineering
- Computer Tech - Dept of Engineering (2011 - 2013)
- Built internal web apps (PHP / JS) to support custom workflows for the Sales & Research org.
- Delivered custom tools that brought automation to existing IT workflows (C# / .NET).
- Supported IT and eng needs that power live studio broadcast operations.
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2013
Education
B.Sci Computer Science - 2013
California Polytechnic State University, Pomona - Pomona, CA