Lead a 30-person organization spanning product engineering, platform infrastructure, data, ML, IT, and security — building the analytics platform that hotel owners, operators, and investors rely on to optimize revenue and maximize asset value. Accountable for technical strategy, product delivery, and the AI-driven infrastructure powering commercial decision-making across thousands of properties. Align engineering investment with company growth goals and the evolving demands of the hospitality intelligence market.

Directing engineering strategy and cross-functional execution for a high-velocity SaaS platform. Spearheaded the technical and cultural initiatives to successfully pass the company's first SOC2 audit, establishing robust security and compliance standards. Grew the Platform Engineering team that standardized infrastructure as code (IaC) and automated pipelines, freeing product teams to focus exclusively on business value. Own the engineering P&L, driving rigorous FinOps practices to slash cloud and database costs while securely scaling infrastructure for growth.

Maintained and grew high velocity product teams for a SaaS platform. Planned and executed backend and frontend groups to deliver value, while creating a new Platform team to standardize repetitive infrastructure and deployment tasks so teams can focus on differentiation and business logic. Managed budgeting and cost optimization of cloud spend.

Collaborated cross-platform growing multiple teams in Cloud Engineering and Data Operations. Led planning, execution, and strategy to achieve goals and spur creative growth within teams. Supervised abidance with multiple audit compliance frameworks in partnership with security. Procurement, data-centered cost optimization, and budgeting of cloud spend. Responsible for maintaining product SLAs and managing engineers across multiple time zones.

Maintained and extended cloud infrastructure for a SaaS learning platform in AWS and GCP. Configured and maintained shared services including Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Cassandra. Enabled infrastructure agility utilizing Terraform to automate infrastructure as code. Provided cloud remediation and governance.