Santa Barbara, California, United States
I am a CTO who leads B2B and B2C SaaS companies in designing, delivering and running systems, products and platforms growing revenue from 0 to $1 billion andย customer bases from 0 to scale. I work with my peers to build and execute strategic initiatives driving new and current products and possible acquisitions. Within my leadership team I present and review technology cost/revenue projections, adjusting deviations from the projections. I staff and manage large software teams delivering thick-client, web app and mobile solutions and generate and control large payroll and technology budgets. I provide the technical due diligence for all investment series and M&A potentials. โ๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ-๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ-๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ด ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ,โ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฆ, ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ด ๐๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. โ๐๐ญ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐๐๐๐โ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ต๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง.โ
Technology leadership for BuildQ Lead all Engineering, Product and Quality Assurance initiatives Architect, design and build first-generation generative agent-based modeling system Develop all operational software for BuildQ Attain SOC 2 Type 1 attestation
Obtained $100M Series A funding at $1B valuation from Goldman Sachs. Spearheaded all technology due diligence, liaising with counterparts at Goldman Sachs and subsidiaries. Architected, designed, and developed the companyโs proprietary platform (CRM, CMA, Home Valuations, IDX), a SaaS offering leveraging multiple software-integrated systems used by real estate agents to manage leads, listings, and transactions. Negotiated all 3rd party technology contracts with providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, Twilio, Elastic, MongoCloud, DataDog, API integrations. Managed multimillion-dollar infrastructure and technology spending with providers. Led a multimillion-dollar team of distributed engineers, leading hiring and training for new software, DevOps, and QA engineers. Designed microservices architecture to supplement monolithic Ruby on Rails web applications and React Native mobile applications. Consolidated software systems on AWS using Docker and Kubernetes. Migrated user interface development from Haml, CoffeeScript, and JQuery to React.js. Introduced software patterns extending beyond MVC to match required features. Drove utilization for idiomatic Ruby coding practices. Launched the Quality Assurance department. Integrated platform with Twilio, Zillow, Realtor.com, Facebook, Salesforce, HubSpot, and other third-party lead sources.
Architected, designed, and developed the companyโs 3rd Generation proprietary entity management systems. Build and managed multimillion-dollar infrastructure and technology spending with providers. Hired and led a multimillion-dollar team of distributed engineers, leading hiring and training for new software, DevOps, and QA engineers. Designed microservices architecture to supplement monolithic Ruby on Rails web applications. Consolidated software systems on AWS using Docker, Terraform and Kubernetes.
Advised executives and corporations of data persistence and DevOps, specializing in large corpus search systems, distributed systems, APIs, iOS applications, eCommerce support, and recurring billing. Collaborated with clients, including Cocoon, Ship Hawk Inc., NYPEX Private Equity, Live World Inc., and RF Venue, to develop data visualization and BI interfaces while leading software/hardware development and integration.
Granted three US patents in the areas of interaction privacy, reputation determination, and excerpted content. Provided engineering strategy leadership and management. Oversaw a remote team of developers dispersed throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Owned Agile development processes by grooming spring stories, authoring epics, and consolidating functional blocks into stories for development team implementation. Enhanced document management, search capabilities, and social networking systems SaaS offering. Constructed backend data systems, APIs, and business logic. Collaborated with Product and Design to expose data for front-end system developers. Built and maintained development, staging, and production AWS servers. Deployed processes, monitored system stability, and updated system security patches.