Enterprise payments at Fortune 50 scale, from contractor to full-time engineer — plus a decade of independent consultancy before that.
The Home Depot
Software Engineer II — Enterprise Payments Platform
Jan 2024 – Present
Remote / Tampa Bay, FL
Full-time IC on a 100+ engineer team operating platinum-tier payment authorization, tender, and fraud services across 2400+ stores with six-figure hourly transaction volumes.
Production Go services on GKE for Card Broker routing and payment tender flows
OpenTelemetry pipelines and Grafana dashboards adopted by VP leadership
Zero-downtime migrations and cloud infrastructure work on PCI DSS systems
Cross-team observability standards and production incident response
Daugherty Business Solutions
Contractor — Enterprise Payments Platform
Jul 2022 – Jan 2024
Remote
Contracted to Home Depot's payments team during Card Broker development — hired full-time when the team broke the contract to retain the work.
Joined before Card Broker deployed to any stores; contributed to initial Go services
Earned GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification (self-driven)
Bridged contractor and full-time engineering during platform scale-up
Menez Enterprises
Founder / Software Consultant
2016 – 2022
Tampa Bay, FL
Independent consultancy shipping custom web applications for business clients — ownership instincts, client communication, and revenue-aware engineering decisions.
End-to-end delivery for small business clients across web and backend systems
Direct ownership of architecture, deployment, and client relationships
Foundation for enterprise engineering transition in 2022