mydecisive.ai · Sep 2023 – Present

VP of Engineering (Co-founder)

Led and architected SmartHub's company-wide platform on OpenTelemetry and adjacent telemetry technologies, establishing the technical foundation beneath Octant's user-facing control plane and the broader MyDecisive product suite.

Role portfolio · 5 areas of impact

Observability platform architecture

Architect an OpenTelemetry platform from zero

Company-wide platform architecture

OpenTelemetry-based technical foundation

Platform and product suite launched as open source

Architecture intelligence

Move feasibility ahead of implementation

Turn architecture and API context into an engineering feasibility report before a team commits to an expensive—or incorrect—proof of concept.

~1 minute to generate

~1 minute to validate

Several live refinements in under 1 hour

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Developer enablement

Replace days of support with a five-minute sandbox

Encoded field-engineering knowledge into a self-service workflow that installs the platform, loads synthetic data, and demonstrates solution efficacy without requiring Jillian in the room.

5-minute self-service evaluation

12/12 internal engineers successful

4/5 customer installations successful

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Zero-to-launch architecture

Turn technical vision into a resilient commercial launch

Shaped Octant—MyDecisive's primary user-facing control plane built on SmartHub and adjacent technologies—from concept through architecture, delivery planning, editable frontend content, telemetry validation, and independent customer-journey testing.

4-month estimate reframed to ~3 months

87 public stabilization tags

0 customer-reported or public issues after launch as of Jul 2026

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Engineering organization

Build and run engineering from zero

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.

12 engineers hired

3 contractors hired

Monte Carlo delivery forecasting adopted with engineering buy-in

Interview evidence

Scope, decisions, and durable impact.

What I owned

Execution and delivery planning

Building and leading the engineering team

Co-architecting with the team

Roadmap planning

Engineering ideation

Authoring platform documentation

Engineering strategy

Writing platform labs

Field engineering and customer support

Automated and manual testing

Reducing cognitive load across the platform

Additional evidence

Evidence 01

Led and architected MyDecisive's company-wide OpenTelemetry platform and adjacent telemetry architecture from the ground up.

Evidence 02

Architected and built the open-source mdai-labs toolkit end to end to make platform installation, solution automation, testing, demonstrations, and customer learning repeatable.

Evidence 03

Encoded field-engineering knowledge into reusable solution bundles and a CLI-like workflow, scaling support without additional hiring or budget.

Evidence 04

Integrated the complete mdai-labs solution suite into internal release automation so every new SmartHub version is exercised through benchmarking, regression, and end-to-end tests.

Evidence 05

Established a technical flywheel connecting field learning, reusable solution bundles, customer documentation, release validation, and platform feedback.

Evidence 06

Reconciled a four-week business target with a four-month engineering estimate by decomposing and negotiating an approximately three-month Octant delivery plan that shipped at public commercial launch.

Evidence 07

Helped conceptualize Octant, MyDecisive's primary user-facing control plane built on SmartHub and adjacent technologies, from the ground up; authored its documentation and most architecture designs; and mapped delivery across the existing platform, tooling, stack, and integration points.

Evidence 08

Made multivendor telemetry validation a design requirement so the team could measure semantic and fidelity loss as vendor-native telemetry passed through OpenTelemetry.

Evidence 09

Implemented Octant's JSON-driven frontend content layer for easy marketing and product edits, while deliberately remaining outside core implementation to conduct objective customer-perspective end-to-end testing.

Evidence 10

Manually tested Octant's complete customer journey and drove repeated stabilization releases; the public repository records 87 sequential tags through v0.1.86, including 49 tagged commit subjects explicitly labeled as fixes or reverts.

Evidence 11

Reduced Octant launch risk and support burden through pre-release end-to-end stabilization, with zero customer-reported or public GitHub issues recorded after release as of 2026-07-26.

Context: Point-in-time observation; refresh before publication.

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