VP of Engineering at Troop | Building the Future of Meeting Planning & Group Travel Logistics
I lead engineering at Troop, where we're revolutionizing how companies plan meetings and manage group travel logistics. Our platform helps organizations bring teams together for successful in-person meetings by simplifying location selection, attendee management, and budget trackingβall in one place.
"Great engineering is about solving real problems for real people."
- π Currently leading the engineering team at Troop, building a data-driven platform that makes meeting planning accessible to everyone
- π± Passionate about creating technology that connects people and drives business results
- πΌ Experienced in scaling engineering teams and delivering enterprise-grade SaaS solutions
- π Advocate for remote-first culture and building distributed teams across multiple time zones
- π Focused on data-driven decision making and measurable outcomes
I believe in:
- User-Centered Design: Technology should solve real problems for real users
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Let metrics guide our path
- Continuous Learning: Staying curious and embracing new technologies
- Empowered Teams: Building autonomous teams that own their outcomes
- Technical Excellence: Maintaining high standards while delivering business value
- Sustainable Pace: Building for the long term with balanced workloads
- Team Building: Building high-performing engineering teams across multiple geographies
- Technical Strategy: Aligning technology decisions with business objectives
- Agile Methodologies: Implementing efficient development processes
- Product Development: Translating business requirements into technical solutions
- Cloud Architecture: Designing scalable and resilient systems
- Platform Transformation: Led the development of Troop's core platform that helps companies make data-driven decisions for meeting planning and group travel logistics
- Scalable Architecture: Designed and implemented cloud-native architecture to support growing enterprise customer base with high availability and performance
- Engineering Excellence: Established engineering best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows that improved code quality and team velocity
- Performance Optimization: Spearheaded initiatives to improve system performance and reliability, resulting in 40% faster response times and 99.9% uptime
- Enterprise Integrations: Built secure integrations with travel management systems, expense platforms, and corporate identity providers
- Contributor to several open source projects in the travel tech ecosystem
- Speaker at tech conferences on topics like distributed systems and remote engineering teams
- Mentor for aspiring engineers and tech leaders
- Author of technical articles on engineering leadership and travel technology
- π Scaling Troop's platform to support enterprise customers globally
- π§ͺ Implementing AI-driven recommendations for optimal meeting locations
- π Building data visualization tools for travel and carbon emissions insights
- π Enhancing our CI/CD pipeline for faster, more reliable deployments
- π Expanding our API ecosystem for deeper integrations with travel partners
- How Data is Transforming Meeting Planning
- Building Remote-First Engineering Teams
- The Future of Business Travel Technology
- Sustainable Travel: Engineering for Lower Carbon Footprints