New York, New York, United States
I operate in the gray area where technology strategy meets business reality. Equally at home in a boardroom or a terminal window. I'm an MIT-trained engineer with 25+ years of experience building and selling complex technical solutions across capital markets, fintech, logistics, healthcare, and enterprise software. My career has tracked the evolution of how enterprises orchestrate work, from early workflow automation and financial messaging middleware through high-performance distributed systems to today's agentic AI platforms. That arc isn't accidental; it reflects a genuine obsession with how systems connect, coordinate, and fail gracefully under pressure. Today I'm a Senior Solutions Architect at Orkes, where I help engineering teams adopt workflow orchestration and agentic AI at scale. I work across the full customer journey from pre-sales architecture and POCs through post-sales onboarding, technical education, and account expansion. I'm also completing a Master's in Information and Data Science at UC Berkeley, deepening my foundation in the data and AI disciplines that are reshaping how enterprises build. What I do best: translate between engineers and executives, find the elegant architecture hiding inside a messy requirement, and make sure customers are still successful long after the contract is signed.
Customer-facing architect and technical advisor for Orkes, the enterprise workflow orchestration platform built on Netflix's open-source Conductor engine and home of AgentSpan, a durable, observable, and auditable framework for integrating agentic AI into production business processes. ◼ Lead post-sales technical onboarding and education, guiding engineering teams through workflow design best practices and production deployment patterns. ◼ Conduct architecture reviews and POCs, translating customer requirements into concrete orchestration blueprints across fintech, logistics, healthcare, and other verticals. ◼ Partner with sales to provide pre-sales technical advisory, qualifying use cases and demonstrating platform capabilities to accelerate deal cycles. ◼ Drive account expansion by identifying high-value use cases within established beachheads, growing platform adoption across customer organizations. ◼ Serve as Voice of the Customer internally, routing field intelligence and actionable product feedback to the Orkes product team. ◼ Engage the technical community through workshops, seminars, and meetups to build awareness of workflow orchestration and agentic AI best practices.
Client-facing architect for enterprise data and analytics platforms serving buy-side, sell-side, and wealth management organizations. ◼ Led technical evaluations and POCs demonstrating improved operational efficiency, integration simplicity, and reduced client overhead in managed-service deployments. ◼ Collaborated with business stakeholders, product teams, and engineering groups to scope requirements, design system architectures, and validate end-to-end data flows. ◼ Advised clients on best practices for scaling real-time data distribution and integrating FactSet's APIs and streaming services.
Client-facing architect and presales leader for ultra-low-latency market data and trading infrastructure, serving global banks and hedge funds. ◼ Secured technical wins at major financial institutions by outperforming competitors in head-to-head evaluations and displacing legacy systems through superior architecture and demonstrated performance improvements, on deals typically sized at $1M–$2M ARR. ◼ Demonstrated lower total cost of ownership through reduced infrastructure footprint and decreased operational burden via managed-service deployments. ◼ Optimized complex real-time data pipelines through systematic performance analysis and process-flow simplification, delivering measurable improvements in throughput, reliability, and latency. ◼ Guided clients through architecture redesigns, migrations, and complex integrations, working closely with business stakeholders, network engineers, and operations teams. ◼ Acted as Voice of the Customer, shaping product direction and ensuring alignment between client requirements and engineering roadmaps.
Responsibilities include identifying and technically qualifying new business opportunities, providing Exegy Account Executives technical assistance in pre- and post-sales engagements, participate in the development of the business and technical strategy, including RFI/RFP responses, sizing and architecture outlines, coordinating with engineering to win new customers and proliferate usage within the exsitng customer base, performing hands on design work to prove Exegy product capabilities to customers during the evaluation (Proof of Concept) process, install, configure, demonstrate, and troubleshoot all products within the Exegy product suite, coordinate technical issues resolution through the Engineering organization and escalate when required, effectively communicating competitive solution/product differentiators to customers and the sales team, and ensuring customers are successful integrating Exegy products after the sale is made.
Worked in concert with Account Executives to ensure technical wins in new business opportunities. Delivered technical architecture presentations, identified and technically qualified prospective deals, while developing the technical strategy and demonstrating software capabilities to customers, especially investment banking. Selected highlights include: ◼ Technical lead for onsite POC teams demonstrating SOA & ESB capabilities at major asset managers and at major insurers, including team lead of 16 at Fortune 100 finance client’s “360-degree customer view” data consolidation project ◼ TIBCO Architect for leading commodities trader, providing a “shoe factory” template-style methodology for integrating logistics systems based on different appserver and first phase of effort to consolidate over 40 trading systems as well as SAP. ◼ Designed and built repeatable exception-handling solution for energy and financial trading systems. ◼ Design, implementation, and tuning of multicast and TCP messaging for trading floors, risk, and clearance systems. Awards: Impact Player of the Quarter, Q4 2001, Consultant of the Quarter, Q4 2005, Circle of Excellence 2005, Wingman MVP award, Q3 2006, Customer Champion, Sep ’06, Circle of Excellence 2006