280×
Increase in infrastructure efficiency through IaC consolidation of 600+ virtual servers with zero downtime during active threats.
CTO / AI & Product Engineer25+ Years ExperienceActive Security Focus
Leadership through engineered intelligence.
Strategic technical leader and AI systems architect with a founder’s perspective. Specialized in high-stakes enterprise and startup environments, balancing product judgment, project discipline, technical depth, and production-oriented AI engineering.
454%
Prior-work improvement in execution velocity after restructuring project lifecycle management and aligning architecture with product roadmaps.
110×
Prior-work improvement in production release frequency through CI/CD automation and operational modernization.
Executive profile
Player-coach leadership for products and systems that have to work.
Leads the full operating system around product development: discovery and strategy, program structure, engineering organizations, architecture, quality, delivery, and operations. Specialized in artificial-intelligence engineering with an emphasis on deterministic execution, model/tool boundaries, human approval, auditability, and production reliability.
Product leadership
Discovery, strategy, roadmap governance, customer-centered product practices, and commercial prioritization.
Engineering leadership
Organization design, team development, architecture governance, quality, DevOps, and operational accountability.
Program execution
Critical-path planning, dependency management, portfolio governance, risk, cost, and delivery control.
AI engineering
Governed agentic systems, MCP tools, cognitive architectures, retrieval and context design, evaluation, approval, and auditability.
Experience
Professional history.
A progression from hands-on development through architecture, team leadership, product operations, and executive accountability—without leaving implementation behind.
Co-Founder
OutboundLabs
Scalable software architecture, AI/LLM engineering, cloud platforms, and engineering leadership for emerging and growing products.
Founder, CTO
TruthShield
Built tools, training, and services to strengthen software manufacturing, reduce failure, improve delivery efficiency, and align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Chief Technology Officer
Artnet
Ran product R&D, engineering, quality, IT, and project-management practices for a publicly traded company. Set product, technical, organizational, staffing, budget, vendor, and modernization strategy while remaining hands-on in architecture, project design, and team coaching.
Chief Architect, SVP Engineering
Artnet
Led architecture, technical product ownership, requirements, delivery, quality, and continuous improvement. Brought critical technical decision-making in-house and established executable specifications and test-driven practices.
Senior Manager, Development
Medidata
Hands-on architect and technical/process leader across multiple teams and products at a billion-dollar enterprise. Represented flagship products in architecture governance, defined capability roadmaps, designed brownfield modernization, repaired underperforming products, staffed teams, and mentored execution.
Senior Software Engineer / Systems Architect
PetCareRx
Architected and built a new flagship site, personalization engine, and content platform; introduced automated CI/CD and quality gates; trained developers and directed team output.
Manager of Software Development
Shutterstock
Built and managed the integration and internal-systems team, standardized development and maintenance processes, led new projects, and improved performance and total cost of ownership.
Senior Software Architect / Analyst
Vertical Capital Investment Advisors
Analyzed high-risk legacy systems, designed service-bus and throughput improvements, created multi-phase modernization plans, and presented time, cost, and risk options to senior leadership.
Senior Software Architect / Team Lead
Business Intelligence Associates
Built and led product engineering for digital forensics and e-discovery. Architected distributed evidence-processing systems, increased throughput, reduced processing errors, and delivered defensible remote forensic collection.
Software Developer
Debevoise & Plimpton
Led analysis and development of multi-tier systems, wrote functional and technical specifications, and mentored the team in architecture, performance, concurrency, testing, and data structures.
Manager of Web Development
Boardroom
Led the product and technology work that brought an analog business to the web, including content, workflow, asset, commerce, and marketing systems; launched an online initiative producing more than $1M in first-year revenue.
Current evidence
See what is being built now.
The product portfolio and open-source families show the present-day application of this experience.