- 15 minmulti-million dollar production save
- Diagnosed and hotfixed a critical production incident, preventing millions in gross booking losses across multi-item checkout. at Expedia Group
- 0production incidents as sole owner
- Sole owner of critical SDK portfolio (millions of daily requests) when the team dissolved. Kept every service running clean through a full reorg. at Expedia Group
- weeks → hoursan AI-powered migration platform, invented
- Turned weeks-long framework migrations into hours. Started as a 3-day proof-of-concept, became the team's official 3-year strategic roadmap in 6 months, endorsed by Senior Directors, recognized by SVP. Autonomous Agents · MCP Servers · Chain-of-Tools. at Expedia Group
- 1stAI Champion at Expedia Group
- First GitHub Copilot Champion (2024). First AI Champion (2026). Trained hundreds of engineers on AI-powered development across the org. at Expedia Group
- 3+ yearsa tool that outlived my tenure
- Designed "Kayl," a pluggable TypeScript library for recording and collecting UX events on Seller Central. Used to compare search quality between Seller Central and the main Amazon buyer site. Led the high-level and low-level design with L8-L6 engineers. Built as a temporary solution, still running 3+ years later. at Amazon
- tensengineers interviewed and hired
- Bar-raising interviewer across both companies. Helped build the teams I'd later work alongside. at Amazon & Expedia Group
- 13 yearsteaching programming
- YouTube educator since 2013. 18.6K subscribers, 750K+ views. Teaching predates the career. It's the throughline, not the side project.
- 100sengineers trained on AI development
- Led organization-wide training sessions on AI-powered development, driving measurable productivity gains across teams. at Expedia Group
- MITComputer & Data Science certificate
- Completed MIT ReACT Hub's Computer and Data Science Program (2019-2020) alongside full-time engineering work.
- 50+SDE weeks saved by killing my own project
- When the business case changed, I called it. Saved 50+ engineer-weeks by stopping work that no longer made sense instead of protecting my ownership. at Expedia Group
- < 1 monthto own a critical project solo
- Within my first month, took ownership of a time-sensitive, business-critical solution across multiple platform teams and codebases. Delivered on time with little supervision. at Amazon