Engineering leader building global financial systems at scale.
Replaced a decades-old payments stack — onboarded new providers with no customer impact.
Migrated payment instruments off legacy processors with in-house PCI Level 1 tooling.
Cut fraud losses to near-zero via ID verification, automated lockouts, Adyen Protect, and real-time alerts.
Lowered cost of acceptance through ACH, debit rails, and network tokens.
Built a Global Adjustments Platform reconciling carrier invoices against purchase records — recovering material annual leakage.
Drove global compliance: PSD2 SCA/3DS and PCI DSS.
Your travel-hacker co-pilot.
Two products, one mission: maximize your points, organize your trips, travel smarter. Plan masters your points portfolio — track every redemption, transfer, and valuation, and find the best award path across airlines, hotels, and partners. Go turns forwarded booking emails into organized itineraries, packing lists, and split costs.
Fun things I build at the pond. just for fun
Side projects with no roadmap and no investors — built for the joy of it, and hosted on the same homelab.
Singers queue songs from their phones; it all plays on the TV. Spin up a room, share the code, pass the mic.
New experiments surface at otterpond.dev when they're ready. Watch this space.