Full stack, GoFundMe ProJan 2025 – Oct 2026

• Technical lead for four product areas in migrating GoFundMe Pro from classy.org to pro.gofundme.com (Nov 2025 – Mar 2026), brought on by a senior staff engineer as the platform’s subject-matter expert: Campaign Studio and the rendering engine for new campaigns, the live events platform, GoFundMe Pro Services, which call centers use on behalf of enterprise nonprofits, and the developer documentation site. The migration touched 27 repositories, under millions of daily transactions, and used a dual-domain setup on Cloudflare, CloudFront, Route53, ECS and Lambda for flag-driven rollout and fast rollback, which proved out when a rollback restored service for an enterprise customer’s weekend live event without compromising the migration timeline.
• Led the redesign of the annual summary receipts, about 2 million generated each January: migrated them from a Lambda workload that timed out and retried into an ECS Fargate task on the primary API, won buy-in from the architecture decision makers, and added what wasn’t possible before: receipts on demand, requested by donors or sent by nonprofit admins on their behalf, and year-to-date summaries. The January 2026 run had no issues or incidents.
• Cut CI pipeline time from 17 to 10 minutes (about 41%) through dependency upgrades, a pnpm migration and selective test execution, and added ephemeral preview environments for AI-agent and developer iteration.
• As the only engineer on the project (Jul – Oct 2026), ported Pro Services, the 8-year-old application enterprise nonprofits and their call centers use to take donations by phone, from Create React App to Next.js in the front-end monolith and onto the new design system: 26 screens, with rewritten unit and Playwright tests, ready to release behind feature flags and a cookie toggle.
• Built reporting, data and onboarding features in the admin nonprofit administrators use to run their fundraising.
• On Post-Donate, worked on everything a donor sees after giving: the thank-you page, transactional emails, and the start of share attribution.
• Used Claude across the development lifecycle, from PRDs and scoping to QA.

Cloud and platformApr 2023 – Dec 2024

• Set up the central GitHub Actions repository, two workflow templates built from shared jobs and steps, and the self-hosted runners that migrated GoFundMe Pro off Bitbucket and AWS CodePipeline, used by about 40 repositories across 8 engineering teams.
• On call for the July 2024 AWS Kinesis outage in us-east-1: CloudWatch Logs failures kept new ECS tasks from starting during a scaling event and left only the old, overloaded tasks logging. We traced the cause, restored service by disabling CloudWatch logging, and added a logging check at container startup.
• Addressed flaky tests that kept recurring across PR and release pipelines, many of them tied to timestamps or live network requests.
• Led the migration of the sharded MongoDB cluster behind donation campaign pages and email templates from self-managed EC2 to MongoDB Atlas with zero customer-facing downtime, and of the Kong API platform from EC2 to ECS.
• Mentored engineers through GoFundMe’s mentorship program.

• Codified 100% of production AWS infrastructure in Terraform, and wrote and drove adoption of the company’s first infrastructure roadmap.
• Migrated production Kubernetes to a new VPC at 99.9% uptime for critical services, and cut deployment times by 50% by consolidating DevOps tools into one CI/CD platform.

• Led the company-wide migration from GitHub to GitLab, with shared CI/CD pipelines on an autoscaling EC2 runner platform.
• Built 12 reusable AWS CDK constructs and Terraform modules for cloud-native applications in Python and TypeScript, and brought Datadog observability to AWS infrastructure and workloads.

• Developed and maintained reusable GitLab CI templates for 3,000+ engineers, standardizing security, testing and deployment.
• An early contributor to the company’s adoption of AWS CDK, and built the Python and Redshift data collection leadership used to measure DORA metrics.