Software Engineering Manager @ Origence
2018 – Present | Irvine, CA
Origence builds loan and account origination technology for credit unions - $62B funded across 2.2M loans in 2025, $656B and 25M to date, for 1,100 credit unions and 68M+ members, and the nation's #1 credit union auto lender five years running.
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Software Engineering Manager — Loan & Account Origination Solutions (2021 – Present)
Sole tech lead and manager for arc DX, a white-labeled Angular / .NET consumer loan and account origination platform live at 126 credit unions across all 50 states and DC: 369K member sessions and 20.1M API calls per month, 50,639 applications submitted - a 616K annual run-rate, one every 51 seconds - at 99.997% availability and a 99.685% submit success rate, measured in Datadog RUM. Runs up to three concurrent sprint teams of 3-5 onshore and offshore engineers, plus aligned QA, product, and scrum; owns the people lifecycle end to end - hired 10+ engineers from intern through staff level, conducted hundreds of interviews across multiple products, and handles performance management. Owns live-site health and Sev1 incident response, and presents incident findings and AI/LLM engineering technique - agent loops, graphs, tool use - to groups across the company. 61.7% of sessions are mobile and CLS is held at 0.037; built to WCAG 2.1 AA under PCI, SOC 2, and E-SIGN obligations. Submissions flow to arc OS, a WPF / .NET desktop application used by Credit Union representatives.
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Principal Software Engineer — Mortgage Origination Solutions (2020 – 2021)
Worked primarily on the Enterprise Sales Portal (ESP), a hybrid Angular application embedded in an MVC .NET Mortgage LOS, modernizing the loan officer origination experience in a single shared repository worked by 100+ onshore and offshore developers.
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Sr. Software Engineer — Enterprise Architecture (2019 – 2021)
Created a proprietary class-based styling system, a Shared UI Library (modals, tooltips, grids, toasts), and modular Web Components on Angular Elements (bi-directional chat, JSON form builder, admin portal). Distributable via private npm feed or packaged to run on any JavaScript-capable app, with zero third-party dependencies.
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Software Engineer — AutoSMART (2018 – 2020)
Consumer retail autoshopping application aggregating inventory from tens of thousands of US dealerships into a white-label experience for hundreds of credit unions. Built the ground-up Angular SPA reimagining while maintaining the legacy application.