Experience

Founder

• • AI transformation consulting — discovery, prototyping, and production implementation
• • Building AI automation, knowledge systems, document classification, and intelligent tooling
• • Fractional leadership services for growth-stage startups

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

Advisor

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

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

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

Various Engineering Roles

• • uStudio: Principal Engineer. Video platform and transcoding infrastructure.
• • Bazaarvoice: Staff Engineer. Scaled platform through $114M IPO (2012). Integrated $168M PowerReviews acquisition. 50,000 req/sec, 30B monthly page-views.
• • Rackspace: 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.