• Set technical direction for our document content extraction and transformation team, establishing patterns for scalable, secure, and performant systems on AWS. • Lead architectural decisions that use OCR technologies such as Tesseract and Apryse OCR. • Drive initiatives that improve scalability, performance, and reliability of the product while considering and implementing changes that control costs without impacting customer satisfaction. • Guide the evolution of our content extraction and transformation technology stack as the business and customer needs mature and scale. • Make critical technical decisions that balance user experience, performance, security, and maintainability. • Design and implement event-driven architectures using AWS services, Kafka, and modern data pipelines. • Build production-grade applications across C#/.Net, AWS services, and document extraction/transformation technologies. • Design and implement scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL) that power our front-end and enable third-party integrations. • Integrate AI-driven services and emerging technologies to enable greater backend efficiencies and increase customer productivity. • Build the product to enable seamless, scalable, and flexible semantic search capabilities. • Ensure security, performance, and compliance considerations are applied across all implementations. • Solve complex technical challenges from real-time customer experiences and issues to event-driven document processing at scale. • Take full ownership of initiatives from concept through production and ongoing evolution. • Make sound architectural decisions by weighing trade-offs with reasoning that stands up over time. • Proactively identify and address technical debt before it impacts the team. • Write high-quality, well-tested code across the full stack with emphasis on maintainability. • Design resilient systems that maintain uptime and performance as we scale globally. • Implement observability through logging, metrics, and telemetry to proactively triage issues. • Monitor and optimize performance at scale, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions. • Create comprehensive technical documentation including architectural diagrams and design decisions. • Partner closely with product management to translate requirements into technical solutions. • Mentor engineers across experience levels, elevating technical skills and best practices. • Collaborate with Platform Services, Ops, and other teams on integration points and shared infrastructure. • Build consensus on technical approaches while having authority to make final decisions when needed. • Lead knowledge-sharing initiatives through code reviews, design discussions, and documentation. • Stay at the forefront of content extraction and transformation technologies and industry trends, cloud-native architectures, and AI-powered tools. • Research and prove out new technologies through POCs that align with product strategy. • Contribute ideas that directly improve engineering velocity and quality.

• Lead a small team of render engineers: set direction, align on priorities, and ensure high-quality execution. • Stay hands-on technically: design and implement key systems, tackle complex performance issues, and review critical changes. • Oversee technical strategy for rendering, media pipelines, and platform performance across products. • Own people leadership responsibilities, including: Regular 1:1s, coaching, and career development; Annual performance reviews (and feedback cycles as needed); Hiring participation and team growth planning; Building a healthy team culture with clear expectations and accountability. • Partner cross-functionally with product and engineering stakeholders to balance roadmap delivery with long-term technical health.

• Work on rapid R&D development of capabilities of the MARSHAL project transitioning into the Navy’s leading weather application suite. • NITES-Next is a web-based application with a Java backend and a React JavaScript frontend. • Collaborate with an active Scrum Agile development team • Take part in a continuous integration environment and DevSecOps environment. • Deploy in both web services model and with a container and micro services based architecture. • Work on complex geospatial tools, maps displays, tabular displays, and various complex plots.

• Designing and developing API-first backend services in NodeJS • Building and enhancing modern, responsive React user interfaces • Working with transactional data in MSSQL databases • Supporting event-driven and service-oriented architectures • Troubleshooting issues across distributed and integrated platforms • Improving system scalability, performance, and reliability • Supporting modernization efforts and reducing technical debt • Writing clean, testable, well-documented code and participating in code reviews • Leveraging AI-assisted tools to improve developer efficiency and delivery speed