Product · Engineering · Platform · AI

Make engineering simple again.

I help tech companies solve hard product and engineering problems, from unclear ideas and messy systems to simple, reliable solutions in production.

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01 / Outcomes

Less friction.
More delivery.

Most of the work happens deep in engineering. The result should still be simple: less friction, fewer surprises and more time spent building the product.

$51K/mo saved

Cloud spend

Monthly savings from recent platform work, while simplifying the platform.

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People led

Engineering leadership with enough technical depth to stay close to the work.

Idea→Prod

Build, not just advise

From product intent and technical choices to implementation, validation and production.

End-to-end

From problem to production

Product thinking, development, infrastructure, automation and operations when the problem needs more than one specialty.

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Across the stack

Software, infrastructure, product and engineering leadership, with the context to connect them.

02 / Why me

I don’t stay in
one lane.

The interesting problems rarely belong to just one team.

01ProductWhat should we solve?
02SoftwareWhat should we build?
03PlatformHow should it run?
04PeopleHow do we make it work together?
AIacross the work

I’ve spent my career moving between software, infrastructure, SRE, product and engineering leadership. I also work in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) way when it fits: close to the real problem, the team and the customer. That matters when a problem doesn’t fit neatly into one specialty.

I can work with the business, go deep with engineers, challenge the architecture, build when needed, and still keep delivery and people in the picture.

I like problems that don’t come with a job description.
BuilderI still build, prototype and go deep technically.
OperatorInfrastructure, SRE, observability, automation and production are part of the product.
FDEI can work close to teams and customers when solving the problem requires it.
LeaderLed engineering organizations up to 22 people while staying connected to delivery.
03 / What I do

Build what matters.
Simplify the rest.

01

Build something new

Turn a product idea or business problem into a working solution, from technical direction and prototype to production.

02

Simplify the platform

Simplify clusters, deployment, observability and day-to-day operations so the team has one clear way to work.

03

Reduce cloud waste

Cut waste and make infrastructure choices with cost, reliability and business priorities in mind.

04

Speed up delivery

Remove unnecessary handoffs so ideas reach production with fewer steps and fewer surprises.

05

Use AI practically

Use agents for debugging, shared context, environments and repetitive engineering work, useful work, not demos.

06

Keep complexity under control

Give teams clear ownership, sensible guardrails and security boundaries without slowing down the work.

How I connect the work

One engineering loop.
Not separate silos.

I work across development, automation, infrastructure and operations. AI is one tool in that system, useful when it removes friction or helps the team understand and move faster.

The goal is simple: shorten the path from a real problem to a useful, reliable solution, then learn from production and improve it.

01UnderstandProblem + product
02BuildSoftware + AI + automation
03ShipPlatform + delivery
04OperateSRE + observability
05ImproveSignals back to product
Production feedback goes back into the next decision ↺
Tools I work with

I choose tools around the problem, not the other way around. These are some of the technologies I work with regularly.

KubernetesAWSGCPAzure Terraform / OpenTofuCrossplaneArgo CDGitOps IstioOpenTelemetryGrafanaElasticsearch SRE practicesDevOps practicesObservability PythonGoRustAI agents
04 / Work together

Tell me what you’re trying to solve.
We’ll work out the rest.

You do not need to know the technical answer before we talk.

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Got a problem
worth solving?

It can be something you want to build, a platform getting in the way, an AI idea you want to make real, or an engineering problem you have not figured out yet. A few lines are enough.