Technology Executive · CTO · Engineering Leader
20+ years driving technical strategy and building high-performance engineering organizations
I lead by building alongside my team. Technical credibility comes from shipping code, not just directing it. With 2,300+ commits in the past year alone, I stay hands-on while setting strategic direction.
I design engineering organizations that scale. The right architecture of people is as important as the right architecture of code. I've built and led teams of teams — 20+ engineers across multiple product lines.
Every technical decision maps to business impact. $300M exits happen when engineering and strategy align. I translate complex technical challenges into measurable business outcomes.
The same engagements, viewed through the lens of leadership, strategy, and organizational impact
Led cross-functional integration across 5+ distributed systems. Drove architectural decisions for microservices strategy handling millions of daily transactions. Coordinated with product, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver on aggressive timelines while scaling APIs to 10K req/s.
Defined cloud migration strategy and roadmap for legacy-to-modern transformation. Managed stakeholder alignment across engineering and business teams. Delivered 25% infrastructure cost reduction while improving reliability from 80% to 99.95% uptime — enabling 3x business growth.
Owned end-to-end delivery under 2-week deadline for national marketing campaign. Made build-vs-buy decisions on infrastructure, managed vendor relationships (Twilio, Vercel), and delivered 40% ahead of schedule. System handled 50K+ calls without incidents.
Drove AI adoption strategy for municipal government clients. Defined product roadmap for document intelligence platform. Led evaluation and integration of Vision LLM technologies (Claude, GPT-4V). Reduced client operational costs by eliminating 34 staff-hours per month.
Led team of 8 engineers on multi-cloud analytics platform. Established GitOps workflows and engineering best practices across the organization. Delivered $600K+ annual savings through ML-driven forecasting. Managed cross-team coordination across data science, platform, and operations.
Architected product strategy for SaaS workforce analytics platform. Designed infrastructure strategy for scalable, cost-effective deployment. Integrated with enterprise HR systems (Workday, ADP, BambooHR) requiring complex vendor negotiations and API partnerships. Platform served 200+ HR professionals.
Led full-stack engineering team as Lead Engineer for 5G monitoring platform. Defined real-time architecture capable of 50M+ daily events. Reduced SLA penalties 75% through architectural decisions that cut incident detection from 8 minutes to 20 seconds. Mentored junior engineers and established code review practices.
Drove compliance-first engineering culture for RegTech platform at a major financial institution. Managed multi-cloud strategy across AWS and GCP for SOC2-compliant infrastructure achieving 99.995% uptime. Led AI/ML adoption for regulatory classification, improving compliance accuracy 45%.
Key contributor to technical strategy that positioned the company for $300M Palo Alto Networks acquisition. Drove cost optimization initiative saving $70K annually. Championed engineering quality culture — awarded "Bug Fix of the Year 2017." Scaled platform from 100K to 1M+ daily security events.
Aion University
University of Colorado
Red Hat Certified, Microsoft Certified Professional
Distinguished technology innovator and leadership alliance member
Secure distributed messaging architecture
Distributed systems, quantum computing, and applied mathematics
Whether you need a CTO, VP of Engineering, or technical advisor, I bring both strategic vision and hands-on engineering depth. See also my engineering profile for detailed technical implementations.