About
Software development executive with a fifteen-year track record of building engineering organizations and turning ambiguity into executable technical direction.
Track record
I build engineering organizations that turn into momentum — from first commit to a team that ships without me in the room. Fifteen years across founder, CTO, and technical-lead roles, with one through-line: turning ambiguity into executable technical direction.
PlantBid
Leading the technology organization for a SaaS marketplace changing how the world sources landscaping supplies — architecture, product direction, and the engineering process to scale it. Progressed from Director of Engineering to Acting CTO to CTO.
Advisory
Select advisory work: early-stage startups (MVP definition and sequencing work before a full team), enterprise blockchain (realistic value vs. hype), and applied AI / LLMs.
Blockery.io
Founded and ran a blockchain-integration-as-a-service platform, giving companies an API to ship blockchain-enabled products without managing cryptographic keys, infrastructure, or specialist hires. Python, React, Firebase, Cardano, Ethereum.
Code for San Francisco
On the leadership team of the civic-tech volunteer brigade — effectively a fractional CTO across volunteer-run projects: scoping MVPs, making pragmatic technical decisions, and structuring volunteer engineering.
LikeMindedly
A Code for San Francisco side project where I acted as both CEO and CTO — a low-risk venue to sharpen leadership skills in an unfamiliar domain alongside fellow volunteers.
BetterDoctor (acquired by Quest Analytics)
Provided technical stewardship in data mining, information management, and project governance; translated long-term business goals into technical vision and new data pipelines. Played a role in the acquisition by Quest Analytics. Python, Flask, Kafka, Spark, Airflow.
AlwaysHired
Co-founded a technical-sales bootcamp and led its brick-and-mortar-to-SaaS conversion, automating training and business processes with a network of external engineering contractors. Python, Flask, React, AWS.
Dwelo
Built a home-automation integration platform and the engineering team from the ground up (Java + Python), growing a fledgling startup into a Series A company with real revenue. IoT, Z-Wave, Drools.
ReviewLately.com
Co-founded and scaled a Python web platform that aggregated online retailer reviews so businesses could gauge the verity, health, and performance of their product holdings.
UnitedHealth Group
Applied machine learning and rules-oriented NLP to computer-assisted medical coding — improved runtime efficiency roughly 40% and saved over $1M against budget. Ruby, Java, Python, C#, Drools.
Education
California State University, Fresno
Computational linguistics and natural language processing — the foundation for my early machine-learning work.
California State University, Fresno
Logic, argument, and the habit of thinking from first principles.