From the trenches to the executive suite.
25+ years of engineering leadership traversing startups, enterprise SaaS, entertainment, and healthcare.
Calico / Alphabet
Engineering the Developer Experience (DX), writing internal libraries, standardizing infrastructure on GCP / GKE, and building AI tools.
Team Rubicon
Led a multi-year digital transformation moving legacy ad hoc systems to Azure Bicep IaC, introducing their first containerized microservices.
Pienso
Engineered multi-cloud platform parity across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Specialized in Terraform, GPU clusters, and Ray.
Marqeta
Engineered critical FinTech infrastructure and high-frequency webhook architecture. Supported growth toward its eventual IPO.
Weaveworks / Magalix
Built a DevSecOps SaaS from seed to successful acquisition by Weaveworks. Authored 125+ open policy agent (OPA) security rules.
Plunk
Architected highly parallel geospatial machine learning pipelines analyzing real estate data. Implemented AWS Fargate scale-out.
GawkBox
Built a creator economy platform from zero, processed >1M in payouts, and raised $4.4M in VC funding from firms like Madrona.
Vungle
Took over a massive mobile advertising platform. Migrated monolithic stacks, scaled 5 engineering teams globally. Acquired for $750M.
Kwarter
Architected a mobile backend handling 1.8M concurrent requests/sec during live televised sporting events.
Intuit
Guided an enterprise-wide mobile transformation. Prototyped standardizing tools and migrating complex financial legacy codebases.
M-GO / Technicolor
Developed premium VOD streaming platforms, architecting API gateways before Node.js was officially released.
Disney / Playdom
Engineered backend analytics for massive multiplayer social games like City Girl and Marvel Avengers Alliance.
DreamWorks Animation
Brought AWS into the studio. Re-architected CMS systems resulting in a 50% cost reduction, freeing up budget for digital content creation.
Edmunds
Modernized core media API services for one of the largest automotive networks. Transitioned monolithic J2EE to NodeJS microservices.
CBS Television
Moved major television shows into the digital space during the original dot-com web 2.0 pivot.
Beverly Hospital
Where the journey began. Managed entire hospital networks, active directory, and mission-critical life-saving healthcare infrastructure.