Experience
Odessa · FinTech · Asset Finance Product
Technical lead for HPE, GE Capital, TD Bank, Canon Financial, Haydock Finance, Asset Alliance Group, and Volvo Financial Services.
Drove adoption of AI developer tools across the engineering team — integrating Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex into daily workflows to accelerate code generation, assist in deep debugging, and establish practical standards for AI-assisted development. Championed internal AI initiatives exploring vendor integrations with ABBYY and ZEST to build intelligent client features, including AI-assisted contract summaries.
Spearheaded distributed teams across India, Serbia & the U.S. for delivery planning, project implementation, and stakeholder alignment.
Refactored stored procedures using SQL Profiler and execution plans, improving system performance by up to 70%.
Enforced unit testing, peer code reviews, and reusability standards — achieving near-zero defects in delivered features.
Maintained CI/CD pipelines, managed cross-environment deployments, and executed controlled releases with rollback readiness.
Diagnosed API defects via Postman and supported client teams integrating Odessa APIs into business workflows.