American Express: Business Checking platform delivery
Product-led engineering and architecture leadership across a customer-facing fintech platform initiative.
Results
Shipped platform capabilities to customers
Durable foundations for scaling and iteration
Clear operational ownership model
Context
The initiative required shipping a customer-facing product with strong foundations: reliability, security, and extensibility mattered as much as speed.
The problem
Delivering quickly while maintaining architectural integrity, aligning multiple stakeholders, and ensuring the platform could be owned and evolved long-term.
The approach
We prioritized clear ownership boundaries, pragmatic architecture decisions, and delivery practices that kept product momentum high while maintaining quality and reliability.
What I led
I led engineering and product execution, aligning stakeholders, making architecture tradeoffs explicit, and driving delivery to customer-ready outcomes.
Results
Shipped platform capabilities with durable foundations for scaling, iteration, and operational ownership.
Lessons
In fintech, speed works when it's paired with clarity: ownership, reliability, and architecture decisions that keep future teams unblocked.
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