- Launched reduction in minimum loan share purchase size from $25 to $5
- When scaled up, will unlock $3MM in funds for auto-lending and make Kiva more approachable to new users

2021
- Led Platform Backend team to rebuild Kiva's business-critical financial and lender applications using microservices
- Managed an intern, integrated her into our team and supported her in shipping an integral feature to production

2020
- Led Auto-Lending team to earn 9.6% ($1.5MM) of Kiva’s annual revenue and facilitate 19.4% ($25MM) of annual lending in 2020 (Auto-Lending revenue increased 750% from 2019; lending by 40%)
- Part of fire team which designed, built and shipped a COVID relief fund subscription product in 4 weeks, now responsible for $700K in lending

For a Scala-based core banking platform deployed on AWS:
• Led API design
• Wrote well-received technical white paper with target audience of Sr. Manager to
SVP/MVP
• Led documentation efforts of 20+ member team
• Collaborated with leadership team to set goals and priorities; groomed
epics/stories and set direction for various work streams
• Led design and development of financial product test harness

• Designed domain specific language to model financial products;
conducted user studies with engineers to evaluate its intuitiveness
• Developed API with Spring that enables automatic debit card reissue
• Developed high-fidelity mobile prototype of new online account
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