Leading engineering at Mortgage Automator

Sep 2019 to now

Trigger Mortgage Automator is a loan origination and servicing SaaS for private lenders in Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand. I joined as a senior engineer in 2019 and have been VP of Engineering since February 2024.

Led engineering through technical due diligence for the May 2024 majority recapitalization by BVP Forge, the private-equity arm of Bessemer Venture Partners.
Led engineering through SOC 2: controls, evidence and changes to how we build and ship.
Built hiring, onboarding and a double code-review system while the team grew to about 20 engineers.
Stayed hands-on: rebuilt the Fund engine to at least 5x faster and moved local development to Docker, which cut setup from 1 to 2 days to under 30 minutes.

ScopeUp to ~20 engineers. 375+ lenders and $20B+ funded on the platform as of 2024.

On callGo-to engineer for incidents, disaster recovery and major migrations.

5x: faster Fund engine
30 min: new-developer setup, from 1 to 2 days
80%: less hiring-process bloat

Stack PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Docker, AWS, with projects in C#/.NET, Laravel and Node.js

What I own

Engineering for a platform that private lenders run their loan book on: origination, servicing, fund management and the integrations around them.

As VP I run delivery, hiring and engineering process.

Due diligence and SOC 2

In 2024 I led the engineering side of technical due diligence for the majority recapitalization by BVP Forge. That meant answering for the architecture, security and delivery process, with evidence.

I also led SOC 2: deciding which controls fit how we actually work, collecting evidence and changing the development process where it fell short.

Building the team

I redesigned hiring with gamified technical screens that cut process bloat by 80%, and wrote the onboarding and training curriculum with the CTO.

A double code-review system with written guidelines kept quality steady and spread knowledge while the team grew to about 20. I built internal tools that gave leadership visibility into more than 90% of the team's resource use and delivery speed.

Still in the code

Rebuilt the core engine of the premium Fund module, at least 5x faster. Designed the third-party integration framework, with logging and usage billing, that four more high-traffic integrations later plugged into without changes.

Wrote the error-detection system for backend and frontend, a database query profiler that made the main page at least 30% faster, and a preview platform that runs several feature branches side by side.