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, analytics platforms, and agent systems.

Experience

// selected highlights
Ongoing
Independent Builder
Side projects & research

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
  • Evaluate frontier and open-source large language models against competing real-world constraints: the kind of simultaneous instruction-following enterprise workflows demand
June 2025 to Present
VP, Implementation Lead for North America
Citibank · Dallas, TX

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

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
Senior Technology Product Manager
Wolters Kluwer · Dallas, TX

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
Product Manager, Partnerships
Citibank · Dallas, TX

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
Product Manager
Capital One · Dallas, TX

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
Product Manager
Freelance · Dallas, TX

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
┌─[ RANKER ]───────────────────┐ │ live leaderboard ▸ tracking │ │ #1 creator_a ▲ 124,502 pts │ │ #2 creator_b ▼ 98,344 pts │ │ #3 creator_c ─ 97,012 pts │ └──────────────────────────────┘
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.

Data pipelinesReactCreator economy
Agents In Progress

Personal AI Knowledge System

Hermes Agent deployment with a Telegram gateway, running in a cloud workspace as a daily driver assistant.

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)
  • 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