Regulated Platform Leadership
Summary
From constraint to advantage—I turn regulatory complexity into a delivery asset.
Regulated platforms don't fail gracefully. A bad deploy in fintech isn't a rollback—it's a compliance event, a revenue hit, and an erosion of user trust. I lead engineering organizations where PCI DSS, SOC 2, and enterprise governance aren't obstacles to velocity—they're the architecture that makes velocity safe.
What this looks like
Compliance-aware delivery — Release practices designed around audit requirements, not retrofitted after the fact.
Risk as a first-class signal — Error budgets, fraud patterns, and incident data drive priorities alongside the product roadmap.
Zero-downtime operations — Bank migrations, platform transitions, and major releases executed without service interruption.
Governance as enablement — Integration contracts and API boundaries that let teams iterate fast inside enterprise constraints.
Why this matters
Most engineering leaders treat regulation as friction. I treat it as a design constraint—one that, when respected, produces platforms that scale with confidence rather than accumulating hidden liability.
How I’ve done it
Dayforce — Paused feature delivery to address fraud exposure on a $7B+ transaction platform, reducing losses by 82% and completing a zero-downtime U.S. bank migration.
iSeatz — Engineered YAML-based integration contracts enabling biweekly mobile releases inside American Express’s monthly governance cadence.
Quore — Halted roadmap expansion to remediate architectural debt, achieving 99.98% crash-free rate across 50 countries.
