Fractional CTO for companies building AI products worth building. I bring 15+ years of hands-on engineering leadership across scrappy startups, growth-stage companies, and large enterprises—the full range of what it takes to ship at any scale.
Start a conversationDesign and build the full stack: ingestion, transformation, model integration, evaluation loops, and observability. I've re-architected data pipelines at scale—separating ingestion, persistence, analytics, and ML processing—and built AI platforms from the ground up. Built to run in production, not just demos.
Team building, hiring, vendor negotiation, architecture governance, and delivery process that actually works. I've led engineering organizations from small founding teams through 15+ engineers, across onshore, offshore, and hybrid models, in regulated and unregulated environments alike.
From greenfield to traction: stack selection, infrastructure foundations, founding team hiring, and MVP delivery. I've co-founded products and been the first technical leader at companies that needed to move fast without building themselves into a corner.
Healthcare (HIPAA, SOC 2), media at consumer scale, and high-availability systems where reliability isn't optional. I know how to build and ship in environments where the stakes are real and compliance is a first-class concern, not an afterthought.
I've spent my career doing the work, not just directing it. The range matters: I know what it feels like to be a founding engineer making architecture calls with no net, and I know what it takes to lead a distributed team through a high-stakes delivery inside a large organization. That range sharpens judgment about what to build, when to slow down, and when the real problem isn't the code.
Available for ongoing fractional engagements and focused advisory on specific problems.