My professional experiences below showcase my ability to bring ideas to life, whether it’s creating MVPs from scratch or launching brand-new projects within established companies. From initial concept to building and leading teams around these initiatives, I have consistently delivered results that drive impact. While these examples highlight my capabilities in professional settings, my personal projects offer an even deeper glimpse into my creativity and passions.
FundCanna • VP of Technology • 2025 – Present
FundCanna is the leading provider of financial services in the cannabis industry.
Buy Now, Pay Later Solution (ReadyPaid): Engineered a robust, multi-stage underwriting system that performs 9 automated, real-time checks to manage credit risk and ensure compliance. This system integrated with a credit bureau, performed criminal and business background checks via Thomson Reuters CLEAR, verified identity and business legitimacy via Persona and government databases, and utilized Plaid/Ocrolus for real-time banking data analysis. See https://readypaid.com for more details.
Checkout, Performance & User Experience: Optimized the consumer checkout and prequalification experience, reducing the loan application process to a streamlined 4.5 minutes. Drove critical performance improvements by refactoring the agreement document generation process from a 5-minute bottleneck to less than one second, directly impacting user conversion and satisfaction.
DevOps & Infrastructure: Established the company's first-ever DevOps process, implementing continuous integration (CI) release jobs from GitHub to Heroku and Salesforce via Gearset. This created a reliable and automated deployment pipeline.
Technologies: JavaScript, Vue.js, Node.js, PHP Laravel, MySQL, Heroku, Salesforce.
