About Me
Let's Connect
If you're considering a fractional engagement or just want to talk through your infrastructure or engineering challenges, I'm happy to hop on a call. No sales pressure, just a real conversation about what you're building and where you might need help.
20+ Years Building Systems That Scale
I'm an engineering leader who has spent two decades designing, building, and operating infrastructure at scale. My work lives at the intersection of hands-on engineering and organizational leadership.
When I recommend a fix, I implement it. When we define a framework, I help build it. When you need someone to own a critical initiative, I take responsibility for delivery.
What I've Done
Over my career, I've led teams managing billions of daily queries through distributed systems. I've migrated entire organizations from on-premise datacenters to cloud platforms, shipping infrastructure as code at scale. I've built AI/ML platforms serving hundreds of millions of users while optimizing build times and runtime costs.
I've designed network footprints across multiple continents, sourced and deployed thousands of servers and networking appliances, and managed the full lifecycle from procurement to decommissioning. I've worked with Linux and BSD deployments in high-performance computing environments where every millisecond counts.
And I've founded companies, shipped consumer products, and sat on both sides of the table as an employee and as a founder. That perspective matters when you're building and advising growth-stage startups.
Why I Went Fractional
After years of full-time leadership roles, I shifted to fractional work because I realized something: most companies don't need another full-time VP/Director/Senior Manager. They need senior expertise that can diagnose problems, implement fixes, and build frameworks that drive value and impact without the overhead but with real business leadership experience behind it.
Fractional engagement gives you access to that depth of experience on a flexible timeline. You pay for the time you use, and you get leadership that bridges strategy and execution by someone who can set technical direction, align teams to business goals, and roll up their sleeves when the situation calls to accelerate delivery.
My Philosophy
- Ship fast, document as you go. Perfection is the enemy of progress. Iterate, then capture what you learned.
- Automate everything repeatable. Manual processes fail at scale. If you do it twice, script it.
- Measure before you optimize. Guessing costs money. Baseline first, then improve.
- Engineers should ship, not debug pipelines. Developer experience matters. Invest in tooling and remove friction.
- Tradeoffs precede scaling. What's good enough today may not work tomorrow. Over-engineering is waste. Ship for your current stage, iterate based on real constraints. Acknowledge some areas of your stack will need to be revisited as you grow, and that's OK.
- AI augments, it doesn't replace judgment. Use tools wisely. Human oversight remains non-negotiable for critical systems.
What I'm Doing Now
Currently, I'm helping growth-stage companies with fractional engineering leadership in cloud architecture, cost optimization, platform scaling, and AI-integrated SDLC workflows. I maintain around 10 client slots per quarter to ensure hands-on involvement with each engagement.
When I'm not working with clients, I'm building prototypes and documenting experiments here on prototyping, proof of concepts, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and identifying new opportunities in the ever-evolving landscape of technology.
I'm also open to co-founder roles, founding team positions, and new business ventures. My entrepreneurial background gives me a unique perspective. I've founded companies, shipped consumer products, and understand what it takes to go from zero to one. If you're building something ambitious and need a technical co-founder or founding engineering leader who brings both business acumen and hands-on execution, let's talk.