Charles Weiss

Lead product development, engineering, architecture, and delivery for a fintech platform focused on payment performance, approval optimization, and recovery. Own the operating model connecting product strategy, technical execution, platform reliability, and measurable business outcomes.

• Built Revaly's Trust Network from concept to launch, creating a secure data exchange between financial institutions, fraud detection platforms, orchestrators, and merchants that reduced false fraud declines by 115 bps.
• Introduced Upfront Approval Optimization, expanding Revaly's value proposition earlier in the payment lifecycle by preventing false declines before recovery and increasing approvals by 50 bps.
• Rebuilt Product Development into an AI-enabled execution organization, making AI usage a standard operating expectation and increasing product engineering throughput by 400%.
• Unified Product and Engineering under a full-lifecycle operating model spanning planning, delivery, operations, measurement, and product sunset.
• Increased transaction approval performance by 2 percentage points through product KPIs, strategic roadmaps, and prioritization of high-impact initiatives.
• Accelerated release frequency from bi-monthly releases to multiple deployments per day by restructuring teams into domain-focused squads and implementing DORA, SPACE, and developer experience metrics.
• Reduced legal and compliance review time by 75% through automation of redlining, documentation, and review workflows.
• Strengthened regulatory, funding, and partner posture through leadership of SRED, IRAP, and Microsoft Unicorn Program initiatives.

Led product development and engineering execution across multiple product domains for a high-scale online platform business. Directed 13 teams and 55 software engineers while aligning technology delivery with business strategy, growth, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Led 13 teams and 55 software engineers across multiple product domains, improving alignment between engineering execution and business outcomes.
• Increased North Star metrics by 20% year-over-year by aligning roadmap execution with strategic growth priorities.
• Drove a 25% lift in organic search traffic through technical SEO, platform performance improvements, and cross-functional prioritization.
• Reduced infrastructure costs by 60% through architectural streamlining, tooling consolidation, and cloud optimization.
• Elevated DORA metrics to Elite levels by introducing Progressive Delivery practices and improving release discipline.
• Strengthened delivery visibility and operational accountability across product, engineering, and executive stakeholders.

Served as the senior technology leader for a high-volume digital media and marketing platform business. Owned technology strategy, engineering leadership, platform architecture, delivery practices, and acquisition integration.

• Contributed to 15% year-over-year revenue growth by shaping and executing company technology strategy.
• Scaled the engineering organization from inception to 20 high-performing developers.
• Consolidated and integrated multiple high-traffic website acquisitions into a cohesive portfolio generating 30M+ daily sessions.
• Improved mobile performance, contributing to a 20% increase in organic search traffic.
• Led platform architecture, delivery processes, and technical operations across a complex portfolio of high-volume web properties.

Led software delivery, cloud migration, observability, and conversion optimization for subscription-based online platforms.

• Migrated infrastructure to AWS and implemented observability practices, achieving 99.99% uptime.
• Established data-driven product practices that increased advertising and product CTR by 20%.
• Improved conversion rates by 15% through enhanced tracking, analytics, and optimization.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines that reduced developer feedback loops and accelerated release cycles.
• Built and operated high-volume subscription, payment, CMS, and online media platforms.