Engineering LeadApplied AI & SRE
Building scalable infrastructure and agentic AI products. Specialized in bridging the gap between robust systems engineering and cutting-edge intelligence.
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It reaches production. I optimize for getting real value in front of users early and iterating — not polishing in a vacuum.
Technical Proficiency
Specialized toolkit for modern engineering leadership.
AI Engineering
SRE & Infrastructure
Full-Stack Dev
Career Trajectory
A timeline of leading engineering excellence, from high-scale SaaS to award-winning broadcast technology.
Engineering Lead
FOSSA | Agentic AI
Applied AI & SRE. Spearheaded AI adoption across the company and led the Applied AI team from prototype to public beta. Product owner of fossabot (New Horizons), an agentic framework for automated dependency updates and vulnerability remediation. Founded and manage the SRE team; modernized our Kubernetes platform by migrating from kops to EKS. Built agentic data infrastructure on OpenSearch and Kafka that delivered a 20x speedup on a critical path, coordinate delivery across four engineering teams, and lead R&D in context engineering, evaluations, and cost optimization.
Senior Software Engineer
Klaviyo | Python
Core platform engineering for marketing-automation infrastructure handling billions of emails a day. Built and optimized high-throughput data pipelines and the reliability of distributed systems behind millions of customer interactions. A founding member of the API Engineering Team, supporting JSON:API adoption across 20 engineering teams. Scaled the Django email-rendering pipeline and led template-editor and data-retrieval modernization that cut error rates by 95%.
Technical Lead
Clevertech | Real-time Video
Led the engineering of Evercast, a real-time WebRTC collaboration platform for film and TV production used by major studios. The work helped raise $4M and earned an Engineering Emmy® for delivering 4K/60fps, 10-bit 4:4:4 color and 7.1 surround over the web. Owned the security program that earned approval from all major Hollywood studios, and scaled the infrastructure through 10x growth in three months.
Earlier
- Senior Web Developer2013 — 2015
Fuzz Productions
Built REST APIs across MVC frameworks — Laravel, CakePHP, Sails, Rails, Django.
- Web Developer2012 — 2013
KathodeRay Media
Delivered client projects, including legacy Joomla 1.5 systems, with direct client communication.
- Web Developer & Systems Administrator2003 — 2012
Cyber Architecture (Freelance)
Freelance web development and systems administration — custom PHP and JavaScript programming plus CMS builds on Joomla, ZenCart, and others, backed by MySQL and Linux.
- Research Assistant, Natural Language Processing2010 — 2011
University at Albany, SUNY
Machine-learning research in Dr. Özlem Uzuner's NLP lab — de-identification of protected health information (PHI) in clinical text using support vector machines over local context, building on the lab's i2b2 / Stat De-id work.
- Teaching Assistant, Computer Science2010
University at Albany, SUNY
Teaching assistant for computer science courses.
Education
- University at Albany, SUNY2009 — 2012
B.S., Computer Science with Applied Mathematics
Project Spotlight
Architecting solutions at the intersection of AI and infrastructure.
fossabot (New Horizons AI)
An industry-first agentic AI framework for automated dependency updates and vulnerability remediation. fossabot uses deep, code-aware analysis to verify impact, suggest fixes, and automate migrations — saving engineering teams weeks of triage.
Project Case Study
Evercast — WebRTC for Hollywood
The real-time creative-collaboration platform used by major studios. Led the engineering of the core WebRTC streaming engine delivering 4K/60fps, 10-bit 4:4:4 color precision and 7.1 surround sound — earning an Engineering Emmy®.
Technical Details
Ladder Legends — SC2 Coaching Platform
A coaching platform for StarCraft II that turns your ladder replays into pro-grade analysis. A Rust/Tauri desktop agent auto-uploads replays, a Python service extracts build orders and metrics, and a Next.js academy delivers coaching content and insight.
Project Case StudyLet's build something good.
I'm always open to discussing new AI initiatives, infrastructure challenges, or engineering-management roles.