Experience

25 years engineering leadership across academia, startups, growth stage, and Fortune 500.

Backchain

2025 - Present

Founder

  • Transformation consulting for growth-stage companies: discovery, prototyping, and production implementation using advanced engineering techniques including AI
  • Building automation, knowledge systems, document classification, and intelligent tooling
  • Fractional engineering leadership on retainer

Houseful / RBCx

2023 - 2025

Director of Engineering

  • Led technical integration for RBCx acquisition of OJO Labs (~$200M)
  • Migrated six cloud environments, hundreds of services, and thousands of containers across ten Kubernetes clusters with zero downtime
  • Built Platform Engineering team from scratch, delivered 99.99%+ uptime, and met financial sector security requirements

OJO Labs

acquired
2023 - 2025

Advisor

  • Advised executive leadership and board on infrastructure and platform strategy through RBCx acquisition and subsequent Lower acquisition (May 2025)

OJO Labs

acquired
2019 - 2023

Technical Lead → Director of Engineering

  • Engineering leadership through 6,700% revenue growth and $3B in real estate transactions
  • Integrated engineering teams through three acquisitions (WolfNet Technologies, RealSavvy, Movoto)
  • Reduced defect-related engineering hours by 2,500+ annually
  • Designed Kubernetes platform achieving 99.99%+ reliability and 60% hosting cost reduction

Amazon

F500
2016 - 2019

Senior Systems Development Engineer

  • Early Kubernetes adoption and internal EKS beta testing
  • Built orchestration platforms managing 150+ K8s clusters across 3 continents
  • Developed AWS service operators and controllers
  • Open source contributions: AWS Service Operator, VPN Controller, EKS tooling
  • Represented 400 engineers in senior leadership developer experience efforts

Earlier Career

1999 - 2016

Various Engineering Roles

  • uStudio: Principal Engineer. Video platform and transcoding infrastructure.
  • Bazaarvoice IPO: Staff Engineer. Scaled platform through $114M IPO (2012). Integrated $168M PowerReviews acquisition. 50,000 req/sec, 30B monthly page-views.
  • Rackspace IPO: Systems Engineer. Scaled infrastructure through $187.5M IPO (2008). Network automation across 10 global data centers.
  • University of Pennsylvania: Systems Programmer. Medical research systems integration, campus network infrastructure, datacenter construction.

Career Highlights

3
IPOs Supported
8
Acquisitions Integrated
6,700%
Revenue Growth

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