Experience

Founder

• • AI transformation consulting for organizations identifying high-value AI opportunities
• • Building AI automation, RAG systems, document classification, and knowledge tools
• • Fractional leadership services for growth-stage startups

Director of Engineering

• • Led technical integration for RBCx OJO Labs acquisition
• • Migrated six cloud environments, 200+ services, and thousands of containers across ten Kubernetes clusters. Live in production, with zero downtime
• • Built Platform Engineering team from scratch, delivered 99.99%+ uptime, and met financial sector security requirements while preserving startup culture

Technical Lead → Director of Engineering → Advisor

• • Engineering leadership through 6,700% revenue growth
• • Led platform engineering supporting $3B in real estate transactions
• • Reduced defect-related engineering hours by 2,500+ annually
• • Built and integrated engineering teams through three acquisitions

Senior Software Engineer

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

Various Engineering Roles

• • uStudio: Principal Engineer, video platform and transcoding infrastructure
• • Bazaarvoice: Staff Engineer, reviews and ratings platform at scale
• • Rackspace: Systems Engineer, managed cloud infrastructure and network engineering
• • University of Pennsylvania: App development, database administration, network engineering, systems integration