New York City Metropolitan Area
Senior Engineering Leader specializing in building high-performing technical organizations and shipping generative solutions at scale, with a management philosophy built around clear vision, strong alignment, and empowered engineers. This work is built on three foundational pillars: Hiring & Developing Great Engineers: The foundation of every high-performing team is finding smart, engaged developers who take ownership. I invest in them through consistent, early feedback, structured growth conversations, and clear expectations so engineers are always improving and never caught off guard at review time. Clear Vision & Ruthless Alignment: Most execution problems are actually alignment problems. I drive high levels of organization around short and long-term roadmaps, make sure every engineer understands the direction and why it matters, then let them execute on their own terms. My job is to point the team in the right direction and quarterback deliverables over the finish line. Lean Process, Consistent Progress: I run teams with the most reasonable, agreed-upon ceremonies — no overhead for its own sake. Steady progress toward a clear goal is how I've consistently delivered: short feedback loops, clear priorities, and a culture where the team owns outcomes. Key Milestones & Delivery: GenAI Adoption at Scale: Led GenAI adoption across a 14-engineer org — delivered an LLM-powered agentic sales tool, championed AI-native developer tooling, and built automated workflows that removed entire categories of manual work. Leadership Pipeline Construction: Defined and rolled out a Tech Lead role adopted across the wider department, promoted senior ICs into engineering managers and staff engineers, and built a feedback culture where engineers were never surprised at review time. Organizational Turnaround: Rescued a top-10 company-initiative web app from chronic failures and zero observability to a trusted, instrumented system — replacing a manual QA process with automated integration tests and enabling safe on-demand deployments. Google-Acquired Product Delivery: As Director of Engineering at Neverware, led the team that built CloudReady (a Chrome OS fork) from launch through multiple iteration cycles. Neverware was acquired by Google in 2020; CloudReady lives on today as FlexOS. I thrive on translating technical complexity into business outcomes, growing engineers into leaders, and pushing organizations to adopt the AI tooling that defines the next generation of software delivery.
- Led a 14-engineer org across multiple teams; defined technical roadmaps, long-term infrastruc- ture strategy, and OKRs aligned to department-wide priorities. - Stayed close to delivery details to catch problems early—jumped in to unblock critical work, shifted priorities, or revised rollout plans before issues could stall a team. - Monitored team capacity signals continuously to get ahead of staffing gaps, proactively shifting engineers across teams and re-scoping work rather than reacting after the fact. - Built a strong bench of technical and people leaders by investing in high-potential ICs early, giving the department the flexibility to spin up new initiatives without leadership bottlenecks. - Defined a Tech Lead role and pod structure that increased the org’s agility to meet customer demand, while giving ICs a clear advancement path to Staff and management positions. - Drove GenAI adoption across a 14-engineer org by directly encouraging use of Claude and Cursor, and identifying internal champions who spread adoption through lunch and learns, team demos, and peer communication. Built concrete tooling to demonstrate the value— including an agentic workflow that auto-opened pull requests from JIRA ticket descriptions. - Led a cross-functional pod that delivered an agentic Atlas cluster-sizing tool for sales, apply- ing LLMs to convert unstructured sales feedback into concrete, automatable infrastructure recommendations. - Partnered with Product, Tech Leads, and Support to reduce engineering escalations from multiple per day to roughly 1–3 per week through improved tooling, documentation, and automated workflows.
- Managed a 10-person org: 5 direct reports plus a team lead overseeing a sub-team of 4. Part- nered closely with Product on roadmap, instrumentation strategy, and overall team execution. - Rescued a top-10 company-initiative web app from chronic failures and zero observability to a responsive, instrumented, and trusted system that shipped reliably enough to justify continued GTM investment. - Replaced a painful weekly, manual QA release process with automated integration tests, en- abling safe and modern on-demand deployments. - Doubled team size and split engineers into focused pods, enabling parallel feature delivery without fragmenting ownership or lowering quality. - Instituted a cadence of 6-week growth conversations and continuous feedback loops, leading to smooth yearly reviews where engineers were never surprised by growth areas or ratings. - Reworked agile ceremonies to maximize signal: standups shrank from 30 minutes to 5, sprint planning dropped from roughly an hour to about 15 minutes.
- Brought agile and observability (Prometheus, alerting, dashboards, error collation) to teams that had neither; deployments moved from chronic failure to stable, debuggable, and alert- driven. - Served as technical owner and de facto product manager: authored technical roadmaps, set priorities, drove cross-team alignment, and ran sprint planning with explicit quarterly product and engineering goals.
- Neverware was acquired by Google in 2020 - Identified techincal areas that required improvement and worked as the sole developer on those projects. Turned business needs into technical requirements, wrote projects, built infrastructure (automated tests, build systems), and deployed to production. Notable areas include: metrics reporting web service, build systems and artifact signing, client update infrastructure and web services - Wrote backend services to support products using AWS tools. Utilized: Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFront, CodePipeline, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFormation - Wrote and extended build tools to increase modularity, reusability, and decrease execution time - Worked on CloudReady OS linux distribution, a custom fork of Chrome OS. Modified system services to increase compatibility with different types of hardware - Extensive debugging and modification of the Chromium Browser, Google’s open source web browser with millions of lines of code
- Reported directly to the CEO during a major company pivot; staffed and organized the en- gineering team for CloudReady (a Chrome OS fork), ran the build-out, and shepherded the product through launch and multiple iteration cycles. CloudReady still exists today as FlexOS. - Completely reorganized engineering department. Modernized git workflows, agile methodologies, tooling to support a production application. Increased technical rigor to avoid painful user facing bugs. - Grew engineering team from 3 engineers to 7, added 2 qa engineers, and technical project manager - Wrote specifications for new projects and managed them from inception to deployment - Worked with engineers and other department heads to determine feature priority and scope - Acted as level 2 support to diagnose potential bugs - Spent about 30% of time working on engineering tasks
- Championed common sense integration testing methodologies to automate manual QA tests. Replaced 40 collective hours of manual QA tests with ~1 hour automated testing script to test releases more reliably. - Reworked bananas git workflows to streamlined process using single mainline branch, small feature branches, and tags for releases. Moved entire engineering team off of in person 1 hour code review sessions to github PR workflows to much developer happiness. - Engineer on PCReady, a localized virtualization solution for education customers that delivered ephemeral VMs. - Refactored huge amounts of code to allow clients to connect to VMs using the ”Spice” protocol. - Standardized client/server interface, git usage, and coding style.
- MakerBot was acquired by Stratasys in 2013. - Architected and wrote kaiten, the embedded python server that schedules and organizes processes such as I/O, printing, firmware uploading and other user facing jobs on the new family of MakerBot Desktop 3D Printers. Interfaces with the desktop MakerWare software stack for remote printing. - Primary developer on conveyor, the current backend server for the MakerWare software stack. conveyor takes print job parameters from the MakerWare GUI, and dispatches to sub-components ranging from the MiracleGrue slicer to the s3g print driver. - Primary developer on s3g printer driver and machine code utility package for use with MakerWare (https://github.com/makerbot/s3g). - Exercised meticulous test driven development protocol; printer driver has roughly 100% code coverage.
Worked in a non-English speaking environment as a English Instructor teaching at 5 different elementary schools.
- Played The Decemberists before they were "cool" - Created and tracked the schedule of 40+ radio shows - Monitored all 'on-air content' to assure there are no FCC violations