Engineering Leadership

I build financial systems where every dollar must be accurate, auditable, and compliant.

Ledger platforms. Tax compliance engines. Reconciliation pipelines. Cross-border payment infrastructure. Across blockchain and traditional fintech — at NASDAQ-listed scale.

18+
Years in Engineering
10+
In Payments, Fintech & Crypto
T+1
Settlement from T+30
99.999%
Uptime · 100+ Currencies
About

Payments is where I started.
Financial infrastructure is what I’ve spent a decade mastering.

18+ years in engineering. 10+ across payments, fintech, and crypto. I lead teams that own mission-critical financial infrastructure — the kind where a single miscalculated entry triggers a regulatory inquiry, not just a bug ticket.

At Coinbase, I owned the ledger modernisation roadmap — automated accounting across 350+ fund flows, compressed settlement from T+30 to T+1, and built the tax engineering function from 3 to 15 engineers in a single quarter to deliver IRS digital asset reporting for 70M+ US users. I also pioneered AI-first engineering in a regulated environment — 80% of PRs authored via Claude with compliance guardrails in production.

At Nium, I grew an engineering org from 10 to 40+, delivered cross-border payment infrastructure from zero across 100+ currencies and 600+ bank accounts, and built in-house reconciliation that replaced a $250K/yr vendor — all at 99.999% uptime.

Before that, I founded Trice Technologies — an eLearning product that reached 100K+ licences and exited at 10x.

“I hire for judgment, coach for growth, and build environments where engineers ship with confidence in regulated environments. Every system I’ve built was designed to be audit-ready by default — not retrofitted for compliance.”
Experience

Where I’ve Built

Two financial infrastructure platforms. Two regulated environments. Both built from the ground up — one in crypto, one in cross-border payments.

Engineering Manager — Financial Platforms & Tax
Jan 2024 – Mar 2026
Coinbase · NASDAQ-listed blockchain platform
Lead core financial systems ensuring accuracy, auditability, and timely reporting at global scale.
Ledger & Accounting: Owned the technical roadmap for ledger modernisation — automated accounting entries across 350+ fund flows. Settlement compressed from T+30 to T+1/T+2. Full SOX/SOC guardrails. Recognised with a spot bonus for go-live.
Financial Accuracy: Treasury and safeguarding across all legal entities at >95% accuracy. Fund segregation at 99%. Zero incidents — continuously audit-ready.
Tax Compliance: Built the tax engineering team from 3 to 15 in one quarter. Delivered IRS digital asset reporting for 70M+ US users across four parallel work streams.
AI in Production: Led AI-first engineering — generative AI agents for subledger creation with compliance guardrails. AI-generated PRs for every production alert. Engineers remediate, not investigate.
People Leadership: Managed 20+ engineers (IC3–IC5) across US and India. Coached 3 promotions including two IC5→IC6 (Senior→Staff) — among the most competitive bars at Coinbase.
350+ Fund FlowsT+30 → T+170M+ Users80% PRs via AIZero Audit Failures
Director of Engineering — Cross-Border Payments & Reconciliation
Feb 2021 – Jan 2024
Nium · B2B2C cross-border payments
Lead engineering for payments, reconciliation, and regulatory platforms.
Org Building: Built a 40+ person engineering organisation from 10 in 3 years — hiring tech leads, growing engineers, designing org structure before formal EM roles existed.
Payments Platform: Architected API-first microservices as the shared platform for all B2B2C products — 100+ currencies globally. Drove 85% of Nium’s global payout revenue.
Reconciliation: Built in-house — 95% auto-reconciliation across 600+ bank accounts and 100+ multi-currency corridors. Replaced a $250K/yr vendor.
Reliability: 99.999% uptime on core payment platforms. Shift-left testing and CI/CD pipelines reduced defect discovery by ~50%.
10 → 40+ Engineers99.999% Uptime85% Payout Revenue$250K Vendor Replaced
Earlier Career
Technical Program Manager
Nium (formerly InstaReM)
Shipped 0→1 reconciliation platform. 95% T+1 auto-recon across 600+ bank accounts.
2019 – 2021
Technology Lead
InstaReM (now Nium)
Led 4 engineers to architect reconciliation platform from scratch.
2017 – 2019
Senior Software Engineer
InstaReM (now Nium)
.NET → Node.js migration. 300K daily transactions.
2016 – 2017
Senior Software Consultant
ESPN
Global payroll platform. 43% dashboard speedup.
2015 – 2016
Founder & Technology Evangelist
Trice Technologies — 10x Exit
eLearning product: 100K+ licences, 30+ dealerships.
2009 – 2014
Volunteer
Cipla Foundation — Palliative Care
2014 – 2015
Leadership Brief

How I Lead

Four case studies on building and leading engineering teams that own mission-critical financial infrastructure — from ledger transformations to cross-timezone org design.

Case Study 01
Owning a Company-Critical Ledger Transformation
How I automated accounting across 350+ fund flows and compressed settlement from T+30 to T+1 — with zero audit failures.
Case Study 02
Building Audit-Ready Systems That Protect $200B+
The controls, validations, and lineage architecture behind safeguarding $200B+ in assets — continuously audit-ready, not retrofitted.
Case Study 03
Scaling Engineering Teams Under Regulatory Pressure
Building a tax engineering function from 3 to 15 in one quarter and shipping IRS reporting for 70M+ users under a hard deadline.
Case Study 04
Designing the Machine That Runs a Cross-Timezone Org
OKR-driven planning, engineering review charters, and the coaching culture that produced Staff-level promotions across US and India.

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Domain Expertise

What I Bring

Deep domain expertise across financial infrastructure, compliance, and engineering — not a generalist learning payments on the job.

Financial Infrastructure
Ledger & accounting platforms
Reconciliation engines
GL/ERP integration (NetSuite)
Cross-border payments
Digital assets & blockchain
Stablecoin & tokenization
Compliance & Regulatory
SOX / SOC audit readiness
AML/KYC frameworks
IRS digital asset reporting
PCI-DSS
Tax compliance at scale
Multi-entity / multi-currency
Engineering & AI
Distributed systems at scale
Event-driven microservices
Generative AI & LLMs
AI in regulated production
Go, Node.js, Java, Python
AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka
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Open to Senior Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering, and VP/Head of Engineering roles in fintech, payments, and crypto.