Director of Engineering · Austin, TX

Engineering leader building global financial systems at scale.

Current work · 2021 — present
ShipStation Global
Director, Payments & Financial Platform
Résumé on LinkedIn →
ShipStationStamps.comMetapackPacklinkWWEX Group

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.

Side projects · building after hours

Your travel-hacker co-pilot.

FLYGA · flyga.app

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.

Join the waitlist Plan in invite-only beta · Go coming soon
FLYGA TRANSFER OPTIMIZER
FROM
Amex MR
25,000 pts
TO
Flying Blue
Business · LHR
BEST OF 3 PATHS
2.1¢ / pt
VALUE
$525
🦦 Otter Pond Labs · *.otterpond.dev

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.

Homelab Cookbook

Recipes from the homelab.

Ten field-tested recipes for running real services out of your house — public ingress, TLS, backups, logs, push-to-deploy. Each one ends with a “When it breaks” section, because everything eventually does. Start anywhere, or read them in build order.

START HERE

Twelve-Factor on a Homelab Budget

Which of the twelve factors hold, bend, or get ignored when you're the entire ops team for a single-node homelab. The argument for where to draw the line — read this one first.

Read this recipe →
Then work through all ten — roughly in build order. All recipes
Get in touch

Let's talk systems.

Open to advisory and consulting work in payments and financial platforms. Otherwise — say hi.

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