I’m an engineering leader who moves between architecture, code, customers, and teams—turning ambiguous problems into scalable, reusable systems people can understand, build, and trust.
I create clarity, coach judgment, and get my hands dirty wherever the team needs me.
Strategic Engineering Leader | Architecture, Technical Vision & Boots-on-the-Ground Engineering · Colorado (Remote preferred)
I grew into leadership the same way I grew as an engineer: by staying curious, working through hard problems alongside people, and sharing what I learned.
Before a team commits to a solution, I want us to understand the architecture, constraints, alternatives, and risks well enough to make a deliberate choice.
That can mean shaping an architecture, reviewing code, designing an algorithm, testing the complete customer experience, or stepping into a field-engineering problem with the team.
Coaching is the through-line in how I lead. I share context, ask people to work with one another instead of around one another, and help engineers grow the judgment to make the next difficult decision.
Sometimes the useful move is an architecture. Sometimes it is a code review, a customer call, a test plan, or a hard conversation. My ethos is to pair servant leadership with business judgment: clarify the outcome, focus the team on the work that creates value, and apply my engineering experience where it has the most leverage.
These projects began with real constraints: an unclear path, customers blocked before they could see value, or an ambitious launch without a credible delivery plan. I stayed with the problem from the first questions through architecture, delivery, validation, and learning.
Designed and implemented the AI-assisted feasibility system.
Replaced a four-to-eight-week feasibility cycle that could include an incorrect proof of concept with an architecture-first options and limitations review before implementation.
Read the case studyArchitected and built mdai-labs from start to finish.
Reduced sandbox evaluation to five minutes through a fully self-service workflow that uses synthetic data to demonstrate the efficacy of MDAI solutions.
Read the case studyHelped conceptualize Octant from the ground up.
Enabled marketing and product collaborators to modify frontend content through a JSON-driven content layer without depending on routine engineering changes.
Read the case studyThe human story matters first. These are a few of the proof points behind it—across organizational leadership, technical coaching, and systems built to hold up under pressure.
Built and ran the engineering practice from roadmap through delivery, hiring 12 engineers and three contractors while establishing Jira-grounded Monte Carlo forecasting for predictable delivery.
Go deeperThe team documented error codes and troubleshooting guidance in a customer-facing table, helping open-source users resolve known failures without first creating a support ticket.
Go deeperArchitected an elastic commerce foundation now supporting 180M+ annual orders, with follow-on systems scaling to 1.5M TPS.
Go deeperI spend my personal time with my family—a joyful, chaotic, hands-on mix of coaching, cooking, tinkering, building, and learning as we go.
Personal time is where I get to be curious for no reason other than joy: making things, teaching what I know, learning with my kids, and refusing to pretend cardio is fun.