AI & Software Engineer
Engineering Lead @ Capital One
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
about.sh
Senior full-stack engineer with nearly a decade of experience architecting and delivering high-scale, event-driven platforms across fintech and media. Expert in TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, and Node.js, with deep AWS experience building real-time data streaming systems.
Currently serving as Engineering Lead at Capital One in Toronto, building scalable decisioning platforms and growth systems — including AI-driven decisioning engines and machine learning pipelines — that power financial services for millions of customers.
A proven technical leader who has mentored engineering teams, driven architectural excellence, and championed AI tooling adoption (Claude, Claude Code, Windsurf) across cross-functional organizations.
work --history
Capital One
Toronto, ONSoftware Engineering Lead, Senior Associate
Decisioning Platform & Segments
June 2024 – PresentSenior Software Engineer
Customer Success & Growth
Nov 2021 – June 2024- Architected a next-generation, event-driven messaging framework (Python, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda) processing 400K+ messages daily across email, SMS, push, and web at 99.9% uptime; technical lead as the team scaled from 3 to 11 engineers.
- Led a cross-functional team of 4 to ship a configuration-based system that cut time-to-market from 20 days to 7 and reduced engineering effort from 14 days to 1.
- Designed and shipped an enterprise-wide continuous deployment management platform adopted by 200+ teams across 2,000+ repositories, enforcing main-branch hygiene at scale.
- Appointed AI Enablement Lead and Claude Code Tool Champion for Capital One Canada — delivered hands-on demos and workshops driving org-wide adoption of AI-assisted development (Claude, Windsurf).
- Made key architectural decisions on library selection, service boundaries, and refactoring for real-time data streaming systems — reduced p99 latency by 40%.
- Mentored and coached engineers through code reviews, design proposals, and 1:1 growth conversations.
QRA Corp
Halifax, NSSenior Software Engineer
July 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2y 5m- Led development of QVscribe for Web, transforming it into the company's main product and growing ARR by 40%.
- Designed two-way integrations with requirement management tools (IBM DOORS, Jama Software), streamlining enterprise client workflows.
- Mentored junior engineers and participated in recruitment to align new hires with team culture and project needs.
- Optimized deployment workflows, reducing operational overhead and accelerating time-to-market.
Nielsen / Gracenote
Halifax, NSFull Stack Developer / Software Developer
Jan 2019 – July 2019 · 7m- Engineered critical components of Gracenote's client-facing web applications using AngularJS, Handlebars, and CSS.
- Built interactive web experiences for Gracenote's Olympics 2020 demo (Angular, Handlebars, Node/Express).
- Contributed to Gracenote Pages — client-embeddable scores and statistics widgets.
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NSGraduate Teaching Assistant / Marker
Sept 2018 – Jan 2019BitPi TechnoLabs Private Limited
New Delhi, IndiaDirector & Co-Founder
Feb 2016 – Sept 2018Nokia Networks
Gurgaon, IndiaNetwork Analyst Intern
June – July 2014Steel Authority of India Limited
New Delhi, IndiaNetwork Security Intern
June – July 2013skills --list
education.sh
Master of Applied Computer Science
Dalhousie University
Computer Science
2017 – 2019
Bachelor of Technology
Sushant University
Computer Science & Engineering
2012 – 2016
// certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)
Scrum Alliance · Apr 2023AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services · May 2022Certified Secure Software Engineer — Associate
Secure Code Warrior · Nov 2022ExperienceInnovation™ Simulation (Design Thinking)
IDEOProgramming Mobile Applications for Android
University of Maryland