Fractional CTO, contract AI engineer, and 0→1 build partner for founders working on things that matter — health, education, and the public infrastructure we all rely on. I bring deep technical chops and, just as much, the steadiness and warmth that holds a team together while it ships.
I step in where a founder needs a senior technical partner — to build the thing, build the team that builds the thing, or both. A lot of the work right now is AI: putting agentic systems to work in ways that are genuinely useful and genuinely safe.
Hands-on agentic development — building AI products and folding agents into how teams ship. I've grown agentic development and products inside a healthcare-education company, and build my own (a coaching agent and a personal-finance agent) to stay sharp at the edge.
A senior technical partner and thought partner to the founder. I own direction, hiring, and the unglamorous translation of roadmap into shipped reality — and I make the team better while I'm at it.
Founding-engineer energy for your first real version. Architecture, the critical path, infrastructure-as-code from day one, and the first hires. For technical and non-technical founders alike.
Leveling and career frameworks, engineering values, IC/EM tracks, hiring. I've built these from scratch and watched them outlast me — that's the goal.
For teams carrying PHI and regulatory weight (HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11 software validation): shift quality evidence left into the pipeline so you stay audit-ready and fast. Compliance as a byproduct of building well.
CI/CD, release velocity, and platform health — the leverage that lets a small team feel like a big one. A data-backed diagnostic, then we fix what's slowing you down.
The software I most want to build sits underneath people's lives. Some of it is physical; a lot of it is social. Both are high-leverage, and both deserve engineers who sweat the details and the humans.
Health, education, and government feel like some of the highest-leverage places to put good engineering right now — systems where getting it right changes outcomes for millions, and getting it wrong quietly fails the people who can least afford it.
Transit and power, especially where they meet good urbanism — the systems that move people and energy through a city. I've built software for real-world operations at scale, where the bits have to match what's happening on the ground.
Health, education, and democracy — the institutions that decide whether people get a fair shot. I've spent most of my career here: clinical trials, adaptive learning, training the healthcare workforce.
A sample across health, education, AI, and real-world operations. Specific companies are on my résumé and LinkedIn; here's the shape of the work.
Grew agentic development and AI products inside a healthcare-education company — and keep my own hands dirty with personal builds: a coaching agent and a personal-finance agent that I use to pressure-test what's real versus hype. The throughline: agents that are actually useful, actually safe, and that make a team faster without making the codebase scarier.
One of the first engineers building software to make clinical trials faster and more humane. Built patient-recruitment and data-capture products from zero, then the platform and CI that let ~30 engineers release 10x a day inside a fully validated, regulated pipeline. Designed and built the continuous-compliance system that made 21 CFR Part 11 software validation a byproduct of how we worked — not a tax on it. Wrote the engineering career framework and values still in use today.
Led engineering for a company training the next generation of healthcare workers — an ops-heavy problem where software has to coordinate real schools, real students, and real outcomes. This is where I leaned hard into agentic development, and where I most enjoyed building both the product and the people.
Grew to 13 engineers across two product teams at a company turning parking lots into seamless, computer-vision-driven experiences. Built a prioritization framework, created Project Lead and Tech Lead roles to grow people into leadership, and made the data-backed case for the platform investments that unblocked the roadmap.
Helping startups in regulated spaces build compliant software quickly — without drowning in paper records, surprise audits, and expensive consultants. Engagements have spanned technical audits, cloud-security hardening, and getting early teams to continuous compliance. (Client stories available on request once we've talked.)
I'm an engineer and engineering leader in New York who has spent fifteen-plus years building software where the stakes are real — clinical trials, adaptive learning, healthcare training, mobility infrastructure. I started as one of the first engineers on a clinical-trials platform, grew into leading platform and product teams, and have built the kind of compliance and developer-productivity systems that let small teams move like much bigger ones.
What people tend to remember about working with me isn't a particular system — it's that the team got better, communication got clearer, and hard things felt more possible. I bring a founder's ownership, a bias toward shipping small and learning fast, and a real belief that the people on a team matter as much as the architecture. I lead from the heart, and I've found that's an advantage, not a softness.
Carnegie Mellon, B.S. Computer Science (minor in Computational Finance).
Tell me what you're working on and where it's hard. If I'm the right person to help, I'll say so — and if I'm not, I'll happily point you to someone who is.