Staff Engineer (Leadership)

Built multi-agent AI migration system with 5 specialized sub-agents, reducing endpoint migration time from hours to under 10 minutes—enabled 289 endpoint migrations at unprecedented velocity.

Reverse-engineered legacy compiled Acucobol systems without source access, producing 45+ migration specifications (1.75MB/50,000+ lines) through AI-assisted bytecode analysis with 99%+ query accuracy.

Orchestrated 34 parallel AI agents for migration validation framework, achieving 90% error reduction in schema mapping (validation suite, before/after comparison).

Designed Truth Source Architecture enabling AI agents to consume documentation and refactor code without hallucination—patterns now adopted organization-wide.

Built AI sprint intelligence system using historical transcripts as knowledge base—benchmarked against human estimates at ±1 story point (blind comparison, 6 sprints), achieving 2.5x throughput (story points over 6 sprints) and 13% sprint efficiency gain.

Designed AI governance framework—read-only agent accounts, DevOps approval workflows, failure-as-state design principles—after identifying blast radius from an unscoped agent action.

Cultural Velocity Engine: Maintained high-frequency validation loop (PRs, ADRs, checkpoints, recognition) over 2 years, building social capital that enabled org-wide adoption of architectural standards organically.

Organizational Need → Mechanism: As incident load outpaced team growth, shipped unified debugging surface (Redis/Xdebug/BPF). Service restored in minutes during real incidents. Tools adopted voluntarily across 5 teams.

Standards That Survive: Led first load test in company history, 5 sessions, no customer-impacting failures. Established observability playbooks and decision records adopted org-wide.

Operational Excellence: Unified diagnostic tooling with deterministic fallbacks, reducing L1/L2 overhead from 25% to <5%. Engineers focus on building, not firefighting.

Cross-Department Influence: Partnered with Operations, Customer Service, and Engineering leadership to align technical investments with business priorities.

Standards Documentation: Created architectural decision records (ADRs) and technical specifications that outlasted individual contributors—knowledge transfer that doesn't walk out the door when someone leaves.

Automation Culture: Introduced AI-assisted development practices. Teams moved from skepticism to building with AI tools by default.

Reference Platform: Built platform recognized internally as the benchmark for Testing, Stability, Documentation, Innovation, and cross-department collaboration.

Multi-Team Coordination: Built Operations team from 0 (solo) to 9 engineers across 3 specialized squads, then led all 3 teams (12 engineers total) through cloud-native migration—establishing microservice patterns adopted company-wide.

Technical Mentorship: Developed structured onboarding and growth frameworks, accelerating new engineer productivity by 40%.

Best Practices Adoption: Pushed DR-tolerant Azure Service Bus SDK across all compatible microservices, setting the precedent for reusable internal tooling.

Designed distributed architecture spanning AWS (US) and Aliyun (China), solving 'Great Firewall' latency and enabling seamless cross-border e-commerce.

Architected unified logistics engine integrating 8+ international providers, automating bonded/free-trade import logic across 3 countries.

Implemented multi-currency payment system connecting 19+ payment gateways including ICBC (world's second-largest bank), directly enabling international transaction volume.

Won 2nd place at international technology competition in China; achieved compliance with public company (LifeVantage LFVN - NASDAQ) regulatory requirements.

Built and mentored distributed engineering team of 3+ developers post-MVP, instituting Agile/DevOps practices that scaled with the business.

Rescued failing insurance platform 6 months behind schedule by restructuring architecture and coordinating 6-8 remote developers—delivered on-time with zero regulatory compliance issues.

Delivered real-time quoting engine handling complex state-specific regulations for all 50 states, processing quotes in under 2 seconds across 200+ rule variations.

Coordinated blended remote/on-site team under pressure, maintaining stakeholder confidence through transparent communication and consistent weekly delivery milestones.

Secured and executed multiple NewBalance.com contracts, directing performance engineering that improved page load times 40% and increased conversion rates measurably.

Operated as Fractional CTO for 5+ enterprise clients simultaneously, managing end-to-end SDLC and establishing engineering standards that outlasted engagements.

Delivered performant, scalable web applications using Node.js, PHP, and Angular—building a consultancy with 100% client retention rate over 4 years.