iCapital — Fintech Platform Engineering
Staff Augmentation / Senior Engineer · 2024–present
Impact: Baseline: fragmented nominee flows → intervention: centralized Rails bulk-processing service → outcome: thousands of investments handled in one flow.
iCapital's platform handles alternative investment transactions for wealth managers at scale — a large, complex codebase with many specialized teams. Joined as a staff aug senior engineer, embedded with one of those teams and contributing across the full stack.
Expanded translation support across the platform, covering both static UI copy and dynamic database-backed content using the Mobility gem. On the Nominee Investments project — a high-visibility initiative to unify several disparate nominee investment flows — co-designed and built a new Rails service to consolidate bulk processing for thousands of investments. Also drove the team's migration from Supernova v1 to v2, navigating breaking changes and coordinating with the library team when components needed fixes before the upgrade could proceed.
Still engaged — trusted with backend service design, a cross-stack i18n rollout, and a component library migration on one of the more complex fintech platforms in the alternatives space.
Constraints
- Large enterprise codebase with multiple specialized teams
- High-visibility nominee investments initiative
- Migration work depended on upstream component-library fixes
Key decisions
- Co-designed a Rails service to centralize bulk nominee processing
- Expanded i18n through both static UI and database-backed content
- Sequenced Supernova migration with coordinated library-team feedback
Tradeoffs
- Prioritized scalable service boundaries over quick one-off patches
- Accepted incremental rollout to reduce risk in core investment flows
Results
- Before: fragmented nominee flows. After: centralized bulk flow for thousands of investments.
- Before: partial localization. After: expanded i18n across static UI and DB-backed content.
- Completed Supernova v1→v2 migration while maintaining active delivery.