About
I lead engineering for a booking platform that integrates with major travel and ticketing providers and supports high-volume transactional traffic. The platform runs on AWS and includes load balancing, caching layers, and centralized data services that support real-time pricing and availability.
My role spans architecture, deployment, and operational reliability. I work directly with engineers on system design, implementation, and code review, with a focus on performance, stability, and long-term maintainability.
Scope
- Lead engineering direction and system architecture for a production booking platform.
- Own deployment processes and operational reliability across AWS infrastructure.
- Design and maintain integrations with third-party travel, lodging, and ticketing providers.
- Work directly with engineers on implementation, design decisions, and code quality.
- Guide platform behavior around caching, rate limiting, and traffic management.
Current Focus
- Platform performance and scalability
- Third-party API integrations and data consistency
- Payment systems and virtual card workflows
- Traffic management, WAF tuning, and request filtering
- Observability and production diagnostics
- Modernizing legacy systems to current PHP and framework versions
- CI/CD improvements and deployment reliability
- AWS infrastructure optimization across services
- Architecture reviews and critical design decisions
- Balancing technical debt with ongoing feature delivery
Experience
VP of Technology
aRes Travel · 2016 - Present
- Lead engineering strategy, system architecture, and delivery for a private-label booking platform supporting travel and ticketing transactions.
- Modernizing legacy systems and evolving the platform toward current frameworks and infrastructure.
- Driving adoption of AWS services to improve scalability and operational efficiency.
- Introducing CI pipelines and development practices to reduce defects and improve delivery speed.
- Partnering with leadership to define technical priorities and long-term direction.
Senior Software Engineer
aRes Travel · 2012 - 2016
Platform development, feature delivery, and system evolution within the booking engine.
Software Engineer
Mobeze Inc. · 2007 - 2011
Worked on social networking and online community platforms.
Software Systems Engineer II, QA
Mitchell International · 2005 - 2007
Focused on system testing and quality assurance for enterprise software systems.
Forms Developer
Intuit · 2004 - 2005
Last updated: 2026