Hey there! Welcome to my personal website. I’m a software engineering leader with expertise in large-scale distributed systems, cloud computing, enterprise enablement, and search engines.

When I’m not building cool stuff, I’m out exploring new places, learning a new language, or hanging out with my wife and three dogs.

Make sure to check out my blog for writings on whatever I feel like musing about.

Nine to Five

I’m the Vice President of Engineering at MacStadium, where I lead the software development organization. We help to deliver virtualized and bare metal Mac compute through our platform, with Kubernetes orchestration capabilities using Orka.

Past jobs include:

• Senior Software Engineer at Wikia (now Fandom), where I architected a search platform and led a small NLP/data science team
• Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead for the Enterprise Team at Lookout Mobile Security
• Senior Staff Software Architect at GE, where I built out a highly configurable cloud-native policy enforcement engine touching all of GE’s major businesses
• Director of Engineering for the Platform Foundations Sub-Group at UserTesting, where I transformed DevOps and helped to evolve our engineering processes, making our recent IPO a breeze from a compliance and accountability standpoint.
• Most recently, Senior Director of Engineering at Vultr, where I helped an independent public cloud sophisticate its engineering organization, more than doubling headcount, developing engineers, aligning teams with technical domains, and maturing processes – all while aiding in the delivery of several key products.

Consulting

I’ve run a successful consulting business over the last decade, busying my evenings and weekends with clients ranging from major enterprises to driven product leaders ready to get their first MVP from inception to production. I’m not currently taking new clients, but I’m always happy to make new connections and discuss great ideas.

I’ve worked with a number of clients in to build end-to-end prototypes, large-scale search solutions, and highly configurable data pipelines.

For about a year I served as Chief Information Officer at Thaddeus Medical, creators of the iQler, a smart device intended to improve portability, observability, and chain of custody management in the cold chain.

I’ve also done a great deal of work in the legal space around high-scale analytics and big-data discovery.

Reach out to me by email or LinkedIn if you’re interested in learning more.