Experience
Senior Solutions Engineer at Descope
Senior Solutions Engineer with 6+ years in identity, developer platforms, and technical GTM. I turn authentication and authorization requirements into architectures, working prototypes, and implementation plans, and I stay close to the code, from reference implementations to debugging failed integrations.
Career
Senior Solutions Engineer
January 2025 to Present
New York, NY
- Lead enterprise CIAM presales across the U.S. East Coast and Europe, partnering with engineering, security, and product teams
- Build reference implementations, sample applications, and automated demos that customers use to validate architectures during technical evaluations
- Advise B2C and B2B product teams on authentication, authorization, federation, and onboarding flows
- Bring customer feedback to the product team and help set roadmap priorities
- Turn ambiguous requirements and unusual integration constraints into identity architectures, scoped POCs, and practical implementation plans
Senior Solutions Engineer
January 2024 to January 2025
New York, NY
- Worked on a multi-phase identity deployment for a large state agency that became the company’s largest deal closed that fiscal year
- Worked across presales and post-sales on identity integrations and customer implementations
- Built prototypes and custom demos for customer evaluations, and relayed implementation feedback to internal teams
Solutions Engineer
March 2023 to January 2024
New York, NY
Associate Solutions Engineer
November 2021 to March 2023
New York, NY
Analyst Solutions Engineer, CIAM Specialist
June 2020 to November 2021
New York, NY
- Specialized in CIAM presales, progressing through three solutions engineering roles between 2020 and 2024
- Consistently ranked at the top of my segment
- Gave demos entirely in Russian to Russian-speaking developer teams based in Armenia
Earlier experience
Web Developer Intern
September 2018 to May 2020
Pittsburgh, PA
Work at University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering
- Built laboratory and faculty webpages with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Trained faculty and staff on how to edit their webpages
- Met with faculty and staff to create specifications for new webpages
Innovative Systems, Inc.
Software Engineering Intern
May 2019 to August 2019
Pittsburgh, PA
Work at Innovative Systems, Inc.
- Built a dataset profiling tool with a team for an international customer
- Built simulations of competitors' algorithms from publicly available documentation
- Ported JavaScript code to TypeScript
- Built UI components in React
Federated Hermes
Software Developer Intern
May 2018 to August 2018
Pittsburgh, PA
Work at Federated Hermes
- Built web services with Java, Spring Framework, and Oracle SQL
- Automated content entry into the CMS using the Selenium framework
- Documented web service APIs
- Redesigned and redeveloped the company's internal website at an intern hackathon
University of Pittsburgh
IT Support Assistant
July 2016 to August 2018
Pittsburgh, PA
Work at University of Pittsburgh
- Installed and configured computer software and hardware
- Troubleshot hardware and software as needed
- Entered inventory of computers into a database
Computer Hardware Research Intern
November 2014 to May 2016
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Work at Carnegie Mellon University
- Researched Dynamic Random-Access Memory errors within Carnegie Mellon's Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
- Built Java tools to parse and analyze experimental data
Capabilities
Identity
- CIAM & IAM
- Identity architecture & authentication strategy
- OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
- SAML
- MFA & WebAuthn / passkeys
- SCIM & identity federation
- B2B authorization, RBAC & fine-grained authorization
- Identity migrations
Technical strategy
- Technical deal strategy
- Solutions architecture
- POC scoping, success criteria & validation
- Demo storytelling
- SE / AE technical enablement
Building
- Demo engineering & automation
- API / SDK prototypes & integrations
- MCP & agent prototypes
- Authentication & integration debugging
- TypeScript / React / Next.js / Node.js
- Java / C# / SQL
Education
University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information
Bachelor's Degree, Information Science
2016 to 2020
Languages
- English: Native
- Russian: Full Professional
- Surzhyk (Ukrainian–Russian mixed speech): Professional Working
- Ukrainian: Limited Working
- Spanish: Limited Working
- Korean: Basic
Honors
- Solutions Engineer of the Year FY23, Okta
- President's Club 2023, Okta
- President's Club 2022, Okta
- First Place Winner, Pitt Challenge Hackathon
- Second Place Winner, Pitt Blast Furnace Demo Day
