Engineering leadership
A builder at heart. I used to build systems; now I build the teams that build them.
I look for leverage, insist on clarity, and still build at home, which keeps me fluent in the work. At Robinhood I own market and reference data. Every number, ticker, and price in the app comes from the platform my teams run, across every asset class, held to the reliability that scale demands.
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Three companies, three very different domains, the same job underneath: own the data platform and build the organization around it.
TickerDomainTenurePowered
HOODMarket & reference data2021–every price and ticker in the app
AXONIPVTDistributed ledger2019–21post-trade for major banks
ITBrand research data2015–19Digital IQ for 2,000+ brands
Senior Engineering Manager · Market & Reference Data
Came in to run one six-person team; now own three: market data platform, market data domain, and reference data.
Peak ingest15M msg/s
Symbols1M+
Asset classes12+
Pricingevery order
- ▸1 team → 30+ engineers and manager of managers
- ▸Tens of thousands of underlying instruments, over a million counting the options chain, across 12 asset classes
- ▸Built the org's growth machinery: talent reviews, eng-wide mentorship, and a brokerage-wide contractor model
- ▸Rebuilt core real-time architecture, cutting load 80% and P99 latency 96%
- ▸Platform behind 24-hour trading, fractional trading, international expansion, and agentic trading
- ▸Built a new streaming endpoint to power Legend, Robinhood's desktop trading platform
- ▸Leading AI adoption for the brokerage platform — agentic execution, release guardrails, and platform leverage
Director of Engineering
Brought in to own the core distributed-ledger technology, then handed the wider org: five teams, including the forward-deployed engineers embedded with institutional clients.
- ▸25 engineers across 5 teams
- ▸Built the career ladders and recruiting pipeline from scratch
- ▸Release cycle time cut by more than half
Senior Director of Engineering
Joined as a full-stack engineer and left running the whole platform and data organization, promoted three times along the way.
- ▸Engineer → Senior Director, 13 engineers and 3 managers
- ▸Platform behind the Digital IQ index: 2,000+ brands scored across hundreds of datapoints
- ▸Carried the org through the Gartner acquisition and integration
PhamilyFull-stack engineering & product2014–15
Altana WealthRisk management2011–13
Imperial College LondonMSc, Risk Management & Financial Engineering, with Merit2010–11
University of PennsylvaniaBSE, Computer Science, magna cum laude2006–10
