Professional Experience

Founder

Thea Foundry LLC

2026 - Present

  • Building a small studio of privacy-conscious apps for families, households, and everyday routines
  • Operating Homebase as a private front door and shared layer for the smaller apps
  • Running self-hosted Postgres, Auth, mail, and deploy conventions as a durable platform
  • Writing company standards so products stay maintainable, private, and honest about status

Senior Architect, Enterprise Technology

Bank of America - Charlotte, NC

Jun 2018 - Present

  • Leading enterprise platform migration and modernization supporting 26M customers and 6M active digital users
  • Designed end-to-end architecture across channels, transaction processing, fraud/risk decisioning, and settlement
  • Architected zero-downtime migration for customer and transaction data across 20+ data domains
  • Implemented governance, observability, and auditability patterns for regulatory and operational excellence

Senior Solution Architect

PenFed Credit Union - McLean, VA

Jul 2017 - May 2018

  • Led migration of credit decisioning from Equifax Pinnacle to FICO 9 with model validation workflows
  • Architected rapid launch of an American Express credit card platform in three months
  • Delivered complex customer workflows with multi-system data integrations

Business Relationship Manager

Tata Consultancy Services - Multiple Locations

Apr 2013 - Jul 2017

  • Managed a global delivery organization of 150+ engineers across US, Mexico, and India
  • Scaled teams from 50 to 150 while sustaining SLA performance and strong delivery margins
  • Drove operational excellence using metrics-driven management and automation

Senior Technical Lead, Transaction Processing Platforms

Bank of America - Charlotte, NC

Nov 2004 - Mar 2013

  • Led large-scale integration programs for major bank acquisitions and account migrations
  • Built high-availability transaction authorization systems for new digital channels
  • Established engineering practices for testing, deployment automation, and production stability

Education & Continuous Learning

B.E., Computer Science & Engineering

College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India

Degree

Applied Data Science Program (2021): deep learning, time series, recommendation systems, and applied ML case studies.

Core Capabilities

System Architecture

Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, API/service design, resiliency engineering

Data & Analytics

Real-time pipelines, data governance and lineage, analytics infrastructure, ML integration

Technology Stack

TypeScript, Next.js, Astro, Python, Java, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Vercel

Platform & Operations

Self-hosted Postgres and Auth, Resend, production monitoring, agent-assisted delivery with review

Domain Expertise

Household software, financial services, ACH/Wire/real-time payments, fraud/risk integration

Current Focus

Private-by-default product design, a small shared platform, and honest long-term stewardship