Enterprise Engineering Leader . 20+ Years

Building Platforms That Scale Teams and Systems

Engineering leader in enterprise platform engineering and engineering leadership — distributed systems, large-scale data infrastructure, and AI-driven operations for mission-critical enterprise environments.

Engineering Lead – Target | IEEE Senior Member | Sigma Xi Full Member | ACM & SWE Member | Hackathon Raptors & IICSPA Fellow

What I Build & Lead

What I Build & Lead

Real outcomes from real systems — built and shipped in production.

Enterprise Platform Engineering

I build the foundational platforms that engineering organizations depend on — internal developer tooling, B2C & B2B commerce systems, product data platforms, and service management infrastructure. Across Fortune 500 environments in retail (Target, Best Buy), financial services (Wells Fargo), telecom (Comcast), and technology (HCL/Cisco), I’ve led delivery of mission-critical platforms that serve hundreds of teams: replacing fragile legacy systems with resilient, self-service architectures built for long-term enterprise scale.

B2C & B2B Commerce

Developer Platform

Service Management

Product Data Mgmt

API design

Enterprise Integration

AWS/GCP

Distributed Systems & Data Infrastructure

I architect and operate distributed systems that process at a scale most engineers never encounter — real-time event pipelines, high-throughput Big Data platforms, and fault-tolerant systems handling millions of transactions daily. My work spans Kafka-based event architectures across retail and healthcare data, large-scale Spark and Hadoop ecosystems, real-time payment authorization engines (financial services), HL7 healthcare data transformation pipelines, and REST APIs serving enterprise ecosystems at companies including Target, Best Buy, Wells Fargo, Comcast, and Virtusa/Truven Health Analytics.

Real-time Systems

Hadoop · Spark

Kafka · Event-driven

Healthcare Data (HL7)

Fintech Pipelines

SQL-No SQL DBs

AI-driven Operations & Engineering Leadership

I bring an observability-first mindset to every platform I lead — instrumenting systems so anomalies surface before they become incidents. I’ve shipped generative AI-powered tooling in production, built automated incident response systems that reduce mean time to resolution, and driven security hardening that delivered measurable compliance improvements. Across 7+ years of engineering management — building teams from the ground up at Best Buy, leading multi-team organizations at Target — I specialize in translating complex technical systems into high-performing, inclusive engineering cultures.

Generative AI

AI Agents

AIOps · Observability · Governance

Incident Response

Team Building

Technical Strategy

Agile · CI/CDs


How I Lead

Engineering Leadership Philosophy

Resilience — in Systems & in Teams

I design for failure — in distributed systems and in organizations. Whether it’s a Spark job at 2am or a delivery under ambiguity, I build cultures that learn from incidents rather than hide them.

Curiosity — Especially at the Edge

From generative AI bots to Kafka-based event architectures, I stay ahead of what’s next and bring my team with me. The best platform engineers are perpetual students.

Collaboration — Across the Full Stack

I partner across Product, Architecture, Security, Data Science, and Business to ensure technical decisions serve long-term organizational goals — not just this sprint.


Community Leadership

Giving Back to the Field

Building inclusive technical communities across Minnesota and globally.

Organizer – ACM-IEEE Twin Cities Meetup

Secretary – IEEE WIE Twin Cities Affinity Group & Ambassador

Mentor · Judge – Target Women in Science & Technology

Judge · MN Technology Association ACE Leadership Program

Sponsor & Leader – Techquity Probono Project

Owner & Leader – Twin Cities WomenTech Circle