About Me

Hello, I'm Mike, a Director of Engineering with a diverse technical background spanning 9+ years across banking and SaaS industries. I bring a unique perspective that combines 5 years of development experience with 4 years of strategic product management experience.

I'm passionate about web development and have set an ambitious goal to create and launch numerous websites to expand my portfolio and skills. Through these projects, I aim to explore new technologies and solve interesting problems.

Projects

  • Speed Test

    Test Your Internet Speed

    Hobby
    Mar 2025
    • vite
    • react
    • typescript
    • tailwind
    • cloudflare
    • wrangler
    • workers

  • Dice

    Endless Dice Rolls, Anywhere, Anytime

    Hobby
    Mar 2025
    • vite
    • react
    • typescript
    • open-source
    • tailwind
    • light + dark

  • Subdomain

    Subdomains with Cloudflare and Vercel

    Hobby
    Feb 2025
    • vite
    • react
    • open-source
    • cloudflare
    • vercel

  • BitSeek

    Search BTC Address Details and Transactions

    Hobby
    Nov 2019
    • html5
    • css3
    • material ui
    • react
    • redux
    • open-source
    • scss
    • blockchain API

  • Zig Zag

    An Exciting High Score Game

    Hobby
    March 2019
    • html5
    • css3
    • canvas
    • open-source
    • scss
    • webpack
    • firebase db

Professional Experience

  • Obsess, an Infinite Reality Co.

    Full-time
    Dec 2019 - Now
    ✧ Manage Client Engineering Team of 2 senior frontend engineers and 2 senior backend engineers
    ✧ Founding engineer out of 4 and among the first 10 employees
    ✧ Conduct engineering hiring and onboarding
    ✧ Migrated from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4
    ✧ Built Shopify integration with product data and checkout
    ✧ Built an app on the Shopify App Store
    ✧ Built numerous features, templates, reusable UI components, and API endpoints
    ✧ Introduced coding best practices
    ✧ Participated in trade shows to speak on behalf of technology and offerings at Obsess
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch

    Full-time
    • Assistant Vice President of Hedge Fund Platform
    • NYC
    • ml.com
    Feb 2016 - Oct 2018
    ✧ Launched and managed hedge funds on a $45B wealth management platform
    ✧ Self-taught SQL to develop strategic KPIs that informed critical launch planning decisions
    ✧ Streamlined tax documentation process for 4,500+ clients, reducing advisor inquiries by 95%
    ✧ Collaborated between internal and external sales, tech, business, and investor relations teams to efficiently launch and maintain funds

  • Prudential Financial

    Full-time
    Oct 2013 - Feb 2016
    ✧ Monitored the performance of several $300 - $750MM CLOs under management
    ✧ Replaced inefficient spreadsheets with an MS Access database with custom reporting tools
    ✧ Calculated quarterly investor distributions by utilizing the waterfall model to validate payments
    ✧ Assisted in system tests to ensure fund compliance with indenture specifications