My mission is to build and evolve a secure, scalable, and cost-effective Cloud and Data infrastructure that supports Houzz products and analytics at scale. I lead 2 teams of 9 Core and Data Infrastructure Engineers — including 2 tech leads — across East Coast, West Coast, and APAC.

Key achievements include a company-wide migration from Kops to AWS EKS (standardized with Terraform, ArgoCD, Karpenter, and Istio), delivering a 35% annual AWS cost reduction while sustaining >99.9% availability. I also led the modernization of MySQL clusters from self-hosted 5.7 to Aurora RDS 8.4 with zero data loss, and drove AI-assisted engineering workflows adoption across the org.

My leadership approach: assign outcomes, not tasks. I champion scalable, low-maintenance systems, facilitate cross-team transparency, and empower tech leads to own designs end-to-end.

Career at Houzz: Sr. Software Engineer (2017) → Staff Engineer / Tech Lead (2019) → Engineering Manager (2020) → Sr. Engineering Manager (2024)