Work
The professional side. Kept here, off the field log.
Payments Platform Architect and Engineering Lead / People Manager at the IBM Payments Center (Nov 2025–present). Sixteen years at IBM — three as a technical co-op during my B.Eng., then thirteen years full-time since 2013 — across software, cloud for regulated workloads, and, most recently, payments.
Current work concentrates on payments platform architecture — CIAM performance and observability at scale on OpenShift, dedicated Payments-as-a-Service instances for regulated banks, and the DevSecOps and Zero Trust posture those environments demand. The six years before that were IBM Cloud — Senior Software Engineer on IBM Cloud for Financial Services, work that produced US Patent 11,755,717 B2 (now shipping as IBM Cloud Deployable Architectures) and platform fixes on IBM Cloud Object Storage backing Project Vela.
I studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland — B.Eng. (2013), MBA (2018), MSc in Computer Science (2024) with a thesis on bio-inspired robotics, published in Artificial Life and Robotics.
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