I architect the systems that let 10,000+ PayPal engineers build with AI: autonomous agent pipelines, the company's largest internal MCP server, and the observability that keeps it all honest. Ten years, MTS I to Principal, one motto: automate everything.
A live map of PayPal's autonomous AI-SDLC platform: a work item enters at the left, a planner drafts against the repo, agents implement in parallel, and nothing reaches a draft PR until every gate passes. A human still owns the merge.
Developer-experience work at PayPal: the AI-SDLC platform, MCP servers, and governance that engineering teams build and ship on — behind auth, quality gates, and the guardrails that let them move fast without breaking production.
Converts work items into Claude Code agents that run full implementation workflows behind quality gates and open draft PRs for human review. I'm the architect and lead engineer, and the author of PayPal's AI-enabled SDLC vision combining agents, review gates, and DORA metrics.
✓ new teams onboard in < 10 minsPayPal's largest internal MCP server at its 2025 peak, built on a first-at-PayPal PingID OAuth flow, Datadog observability, and RBAC via MyAccess. Shipped Slack support before an official MCP existed, then migrated teams to first-party vendor servers as they arrived; today it serves internal-only integrations like Ownership and SonarQube. The security pattern it defined is still the one internal MCP servers follow.
✓ 1,600+ users at 2025 peak · pattern still the standardPayPal's bridge to the AI vendor ecosystem: design partner with Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Miro, WireMock, and Datadog, evaluating emerging capabilities early and translating them into production developer enablement for 10,000+ engineers.
✓ design partner to 6 AI vendorsI govern PayPal's official AI Hub, setting the standards for Skills, Plugins, and MCP connectors and reviewing every marketplace submission. I also pioneered the GitHub, Jira/Confluence, Datadog, and Slack MCP integrations behind AI-assisted code review and incident investigation.
✓ 29,000+ doc views · 4,500+ engineersArchitect and lead engineer of PayPal's autonomous AI-SDLC platform, which turns work items into Claude Code agents that run full implementation workflows behind quality gates and open draft PRs for review, with new teams onboarding in under ten minutes. I own PayPal's AI Hub and set the standards for its Skills, Plugins, and MCP connectors, and I'm the company's design-partner bridge to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Miro, WireMock, and Datadog.
Established AI in the SDLC. Built the SMB-FS MCP server on a first-at-PayPal PingID OAuth flow, growing it to over 1,600 users at its 2025 peak, and stood up an adoption framework tracking 10,000 engineers alongside an AI Bootcamp and Coffee Talks. Hand-picked by a VP to co-lead the Observability Guild, where I drove the enterprise SignalFx to Datadog migration and Universal Tracing to roughly 95 percent of 3,000+ services. CTO Innovation Excellence first runner-up and Copilot Challenge winner.
Migrated roughly 100 Credit apps onto enterprise CI/CD in a plan the CTO reviewed personally, and created Isolated Component Testing with WireMock, which grew into a company-wide standard. Built Terraform providers automating Raptor CI/CD, owned ActiveMQ Artemis with zero-downtime upgrades, and delivered the Pay-in-4 platform.
MCP, Claude / Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, LiteLLM, AI governance, LLM adoption tooling
Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, APM, distributed tracing, SLOs, DORA metrics
AWS, EKS, GKE, Kubernetes, Docker, Harness, Jenkins, Terraform
Java 8/17, Go, JavaScript / Node.js, C#/.NET, Spring Boot, GraphQL, ActiveMQ Artemis, CloudEvents
Archiving my Spotify Discover Weekly every week since 2015 — a decade of playlists, preserved before they roll over. A personal project I've quietly kept alive the whole time.
✓ running since 2015A digital LEGO collection tracker — inventory, piece counts, values, and wishlists. I built it with my son so he'd stop asking me how many LEGO sets he had and what they were worth. Now he can look it up himself.
✓ built with my kid