Emburse Enterprise simplifies the reimbursement and reconciliation process for everyone. Reduce operational costs, get ahead of fraudulent, non-compliant spend, prevent late or duplicate payments, and unlock insights to drive business decisions.

Problem

• 15 years of unaddressed tech debt
• Global customer base with high reliability and performance expectations
• Need to modernize platform and accelerate delivery of new features to stay competitive
• Immature agile processes

My Contribution and Approach

• Accountability and ownership of production code
• Leadership and mentorship of engineering teams
• Modernization of platform and architecture
• Implementation of agile processes and best practices
• Visibility and traction on security vulnerabilities
• Metrics and accountability for managers and teams

Outcome

• Accelerated developer productivity
• Increased scalability and performance
• Reduction of infrastructure costs (over 50% reduction)
• Low attrition and great employee satisfaction
• Incresae in speed of feature delivery (over 33% increase in delivery)

What I’d Do Differently

• Increase focus on loose coupling for an increase in velocity on address security and tech debt
• Earlier focus on select AI coding tools to deepen knowledge instead of speading learning broadly

Stack

• Java
• Spring Boot
• MySQL
• AWS
• React
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• DynamoDB
• OpenSearch