Solutions Engineer · Product · Payments · AI

I help enterprises ship complex integrations, then I build AI products on nights and weekends.

VP, Implementation Lead at Citibank, guiding enterprise merchants through Spring by Citi payment gateway integrations across North America. Former PM at Citibank, Capital One, Bank of America, and Wolters Kluwer. Builder of AI benchmarks, fine-tuned open models, analytics platforms, and agent systems.

Experience

// three threads
Independent Building

AI research & side projects

Applied work outside the day job: evaluating how frontier and open-source models perform on real enterprise tasks, then building the benchmarks and models to prove it.

Ongoing · Side projects & research
Independent Builder

Applied AI research and product builds outside the day job, evaluating how frontier and open-source models perform on real enterprise work.

  • Built and published BRIEF Index, a benchmark for weighted, multi-constraint instruction following on enterprise knowledge-worker tasks
  • Built and fine-tuned Boardroom, an open source Qwen3 model suite I trained to beat my own BRIEF Index benchmark on enterprise single-turn evals
Solutions Engineering

Enterprise payments & integrations

Where product instinct meets post-sale technical leadership: guiding enterprise merchants from discovery through integration, certification, and go-live on complex payment rails.

June 2025 to Present · Citibank · Dallas, TX
VP, Implementation Lead for North America

Post-sale technical lead for Spring by Citi's global eCommerce payment gateway, guiding enterprise clients from discovery and solutioning through integration, certification, and go-live.

  • Own the full client onboarding lifecycle: technical discovery, sandbox testing, integration support, and production go-live across North America
  • Serve as SME for Spring by Citi APIs, translating client use cases and payment flows into tailored integration solutions, including agentic commerce and stablecoin payments
  • Partner with Sales and Product on pre-sales engagements, delivering technical demonstrations and integration consulting that accelerate enterprise adoption
Product Management

Shipping in regulated, high-stakes environments

A through-line across banks and software companies: owning roadmaps, integrations, and compliance-heavy launches where getting the details right is the product.

Oct 2024 to Jan 2025 · Bank of America · Dallas, TX
Senior Technology Product Manager

Owned documentation compliance and release validation for a consumer investments portfolio spanning digital onboarding and physical customer touchpoints.

  • Directed compliance strategy for 20+ complex agreements and disclosures across digital onboarding workflows and physical welcome kits
  • Built a release-validation framework with automated testing to ensure agreement accuracy across the full customer journey, reducing regulatory risk
March 2024 to Oct 2024 · Wolters Kluwer · Dallas, TX
Senior Technology Product Manager

Led cloud migration and international expansion of a legacy platform, defining integration architecture and region-specific solution design for regulated markets.

  • Migrated legacy on-premise software to cloud SaaS, defining a microservices architecture and integration framework across the application, global CMS, and decision engine, cutting deployment time 60% and maintenance costs 40%
  • Drove expansion into Canada, the UK, and Europe, managing localization and region-specific solution design for multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements
Aug 2022 to March 2024 · Citibank · Dallas, TX
Product Manager, Partnerships

Architected B2B2C integration platforms and partnership solutions for CitiPay, connecting APIs, merchant onboarding, and digital wallet strategy to measurable adoption.

  • Launched a B2B2C integration platform for CitiPay with custom APIs and a dispute-resolution portal, improving merchant onboarding efficiency 80%
  • Led an 8-person engineering team re-architecting a communications microservice with event-driven design, improving scalability 200%
  • Defined digital-wallet integration strategy with major providers, driving a 45% increase in customer spend across integrated platforms
Jan 2022 to Aug 2022 · Capital One · Dallas, TX
Product Manager

Shipped AI/ML-powered fraud detection and third-party marketplace integrations in an API-first payments environment.

  • Led a 4-person team launching an AI/ML fraud-detection initiative: ML models reduced fraud losses 35% while decreasing false positives 25%
  • Managed a Stripe partnership to design and launch a Capital One marketplace integration in 3 months, achieving 100% faster go-to-market
  • Enhanced debit-card digital services through frontend and backend improvements, delivering $400K+ in savings and a 30% reduction in support calls
March 2021 to Dec 2021 · Freelance · Dallas, TX
Product Manager

Delivered fintech and ecommerce applications for multiple clients, combining agile delivery with low-code tooling to accelerate solution deployment.

  • Delivered 12 web and mobile applications across fintech and ecommerce, directing agile teams against an average project budget of $150K
  • Implemented no-code/low-code development using Bubble, Adalo, and Webflow, achieving 400% faster go-to-market and 3x client acquisition
  • Established a data-driven product framework using analytics and user feedback, lifting user satisfaction 18% and retention 25%

Featured Builds

// shipped, not slideware
┌─[ BRIEF INDEX ]──────────────┐ │ model score rank Δ │ │ ████████ 92.4 #1 ▲2 │ │ ██████░░ 84.1 #2 ▼1 │ │ █████░░░ 78.6 #3 ▲4 │ └──────────────────────────────┘
AI Benchmark Live

BRIEF Index

An open benchmark for weighted, multi-constraint instruction following on enterprise knowledge-worker tasks, measuring what single-instruction leaderboards miss. 25 models, 150 tasks, live leaderboard and methodology.

LLM evalsPythonBenchmark design
┌─[ BOARDROOM ]─────────────────┐ │ BRIEF eval · single-turn avg │ │ Star 8B 9.0/10 · Nova 32B │ │ Nova 32B 8.6/10 · frontier │ │ Spark <2B on-device · train │ └───────────────────────────────┘
Open Weights In Progress

Boardroom

I built Boardroom to beat my own BRIEF Index benchmark: an open source suite of Qwen3 models I researched, distilled, and fine-tuned with LoRA. Star (8B) and Nova (32B) match Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 on single-turn enterprise tasks; multi-turn is the next frontier. Spark, a sub-2B on-device model I'm still training, rounds out the lineup.

Qwen3LoRA / SFTHugging FacePyTorchDistillationModel evals
Analytics Platform Live

Ranker

Analytics for TikTok Live leaderboards, built for my creator agency. Tracks rankings and performance over time so creators and operators can make decisions from data instead of vibes.

Agents In Progress

Personal AI Knowledge System

Multi-agent company on Paperclip with vertical and industry-specific agents: org chart, goals, and workflows instead of a single daily-driver bot. Specialists for research, content, and operations, all orchestrated from one dashboard.

RAG In Progress

Trading Research Pipeline

Retrieval pipeline with pgvector and the Claude API for synthesizing insights from market research reports.

Quant In Progress

NQ Futures Backtesting

Python backtesting infrastructure on a full year of 1 minute futures data with honest out of sample validation.

Toolkit

// what I work with

Solutions & Integration

  • REST APIs & webhooks
  • Payment gateways & tokenization
  • Digital wallets
  • Enterprise onboarding & certification
  • Technical discovery & scoping

AI & Engineering

  • LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, open weights)
  • Fine-tuning & LoRA (SFT, distillation)
  • Hugging Face Transformers & model evals
  • AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code)
  • RAG & vector search (pgvector)
  • Agent frameworks & tool use
  • Python, JavaScript, React / React Native
  • Vercel & Supabase

Product & Delivery

  • Cross functional delivery in regulated environments
  • Client facing technical communication
  • Eval & benchmark design
  • Data analysis & experimentation
  • Zero to one product builds

Let's build something.

I'm looking for solutions engineering, forward deployed, product management, and enablement roles at AI companies, where enterprise integration experience and hands on AI building meet.

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$ status: open to opportunities · based in Dallas, TX · remote friendly