Curriculum vitae

FinTech-as-a-Service platform for embedded payments, banking rails and money movement APIs. Revenue has grown more than 1,300% since 2021 as VoPay expanded from a Canadian payments provider into a multi-rail, multi-country platform.

1. Vice President of Engineering and Product

   April 2024 to present
   • Own product vision, roadmap and delivery across the engineering and product organizations.
   • Lead VoPay’s expansion into Qatar and the wider MENA region; building the Doha team across product, engineering and support, and leading discovery with enterprise prospects.
   • Made engineering and support AI-first: agents that generate Jira tickets, write code, review and QA pull requests, and draft support ticket responses.
   • Built AI-powered fraud and AML capabilities: a serverless real-time anomaly detection pipeline (AWS Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, Isolation Forest) and LLM-based transaction review on Amazon Bedrock.
   • Added new rails and programs, including Apple Pay via Global Payments, a Wex virtual card program and US virtual accounts on a Cross River Bank sub-ledger model.
   • Hired the senior leadership bench, including a Director of Product and a Director of Engineering, using structured, scenario-based interview loops.
   • Shaped competitive positioning against regional core banking and payments platforms for executive and sales conversations.

2. Vice President of Technology

   April 2021 to April 2024
   • Led engineering, infrastructure and platform operations for VoPay’s payments platform.
   • Built the cloud foundation on AWS with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation) and a multi-environment release process across sandbox, load test and production.
   • Delivered partner and ecosystem integrations, including marketplace apps and third-party payment processors.

Across both roles: expanded the Canadian offering to all major payment rails, launched US and cross-border payments and payment links, built a full KYB and account onboarding workflow with individual identity verification and real-time transaction monitoring, and helped win and deliver enterprise deals with Computershare, Duck Creek, Mastercard and Global Payments.

Eight years, promoted five times from Systems Developer to VP. Led a development organization of 60+ people across Canada and India, and oversaw a digital onboarding solution that grew revenue 3,000% over five years.

1. VP, Software Engineering

   July 2020 to March 2021
   • Ran the software engineering department, owning its P&L, budgets and quality standards.
   • Met with current and prospective clients to shape product direction and support sales.

2. Director, Applications Development

   December 2018 to July 2020
   • Accountable for analysis, design, development and support of all products in the portfolio.
   • Led the move off legacy systems to industry-standard tech stacks, tooling and processes.
   • Owned hiring, career planning and performance reviews; partnered with Product Managers on requirements and roadmap.

3. Application Development Manager

   December 2017 to December 2018
   • Set strategic direction, product design, development and testing for the application portfolio.
   • Scoped and ran several major corporate initiatives and client-led enhancements.

4. Sr. Systems Developer Analyst

   April 2017 to December 2017

5. Systems Developer Analyst

   December 2014 to April 2017

6. Systems Developer

   April 2013 to November 2014
   • Designed, built and maintained major product features; led code reviews and design documentation for junior developers.

1. Sessional Instructor

   May 2010 to May 2013
   • Taught ten offerings of seven undergraduate courses across Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering: signals and systems, control systems, instrumentation and design, engineering measurement, introductory programming, and technology and society.
   • Coordinated and facilitated teaching assistant training for the Faculty of Applied Science, including writing the program curriculum.
   • Supervised five undergraduate research projects (NSERC USRA and EECE 496). See my teaching.

2. Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer

   September 2005 to April 2010
   • Teaching assistant for fourteen course offerings, from introductory circuit analysis to digital signal processing; guest lectures in four courses, including graduate semiconductor theory.

3. Researcher, Nanoelectronics

   September 2005 to May 2013
   • Published six journal papers and ten conference papers, most on the modelling and simulation of quantum-dot cellular automata. See the publications.