AI & Software Engineer
Engineering Lead @ Capital One

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Available for AI consulting

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, ON

Software Engineering Lead, Senior Associate

Decisioning Platform & Segments

June 2024 – Present

Senior 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, NS

Senior 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, NS

Full 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, NS

Graduate Teaching Assistant / Marker

Sept 2018 – Jan 2019

BitPi TechnoLabs Private Limited

New Delhi, India

Director & Co-Founder

Feb 2016 – Sept 2018

Nokia Networks

Gurgaon, India

Network Analyst Intern

June – July 2014

Steel Authority of India Limited

New Delhi, India

Network Security Intern

June – July 2013

skills --list

TypeScript JavaScript Python SQL Angular AngularJS ReactJS React Native GraphQL HTML/CSS Node.js Express AWS Lambda Microservices REST APIs Apache Kafka PostgreSQL MySQL DynamoDB Snowflake AWS Docker Kubernetes Jenkins GitHub Actions Splunk New Relic CloudWatch Event-driven Architecture Serverless CI/CD TDD Agile/Scrum Claude Code Windsurf AI Workflow Automation Enterprise Architecture Decisioning Platforms AI/ML Systems

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 2023

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services · May 2022

Certified Secure Software Engineer — Associate

Secure Code Warrior · Nov 2022

ExperienceInnovation™ Simulation (Design Thinking)

IDEO

Programming Mobile Applications for Android

University of Maryland