Director of Software Engineering
Building the AI
platform layer
for regulated systems.
Twenty years inside one of the largest financial technology platforms in the world, now extending into proprietary RAG, OIDC-secured MCP servers, and inner-source agent tooling that drives measurable productivity, quality, and security gains across the SDLC.
Selected Work
Outcomes I have shipped at production scale.
Proprietary RAG over decades of institutional knowledge
Built a pgvector-backed RAG pipeline indexing decades of documentation and operational behavior of a 50+ year old core platform. Exposed through two OIDC-gated MCP servers offering ~20 custom tools. Language-agnostic, currently in use across six engineering teams in Java, TypeScript, and C#.
Inner-source AI plugin marketplace
Established the company's first inner-source plugin marketplace to consolidate fragmented AI tooling efforts across teams. Defined promotion hierarchy, skill review process, and context-budget guardrails. Personally authored an end-to-end SDLC plugin covering test generation, code review, mutation testing, and PR submission.
Automated dependency patching at enterprise scale
Drove Renovate-based automated dependency patching, cutting mean time to remediate SCA vulnerabilities from 45 days to 14 across enterprise services.
DORA-driven engineering practice
Championed DORA outcomes at organizational scale: 35,000% deployment frequency increase (12 to 4,200/year), 99.4% lead time reduction (14 days to 2 hours), 65% MTTR reduction, 91% change failure rate reduction, and 53% faster vulnerability remediation.
Inventions
Personal patents, filed by Kueffers Inc.
Independent of employer work. Two 2026 filings spanning spacecraft thermal systems and audio digital signal processing.
Centradiant
Patent pendingcentradiant.space
Spinning disk liquid droplet radiator for spacecraft thermal management. Approximately 6 to 8 times lighter per kilowatt than incumbent systems, enabling GPU clusters and other high-performance compute in orbit.
Sieve
Patent pendingsieveaudio.com
Audio harmonic isolation effect using real-time pitch detection and spectral masking to route harmonics and fundamental frequencies through independent processing buses for music production.
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+1 760 473 8288Location
Winter Garden, Florida