I build AI products that feel like a superpower.
Full-stack engineer, 15 years deep in distributed systems — now building with generative AI: RAG pipelines, locally-run LLMs, and agents that take on the work nobody wants to.
I understand systems deep enough to build my own when the tools fall short — and make them hold up at scale.
I've spent 15 years building distributed systems across finance, payments, and consumer tech. Today my focus is generative AI — designing and shipping AI into user-facing products, and providing technical leadership across teams that bridges AI research with what actually ships.
I value thoughtful design, developer empowerment, and building products that make people feel like they're working with a superpower. And I love the problems no one else wants to touch — from low-level email-protocol debugging to designing an agent that defuses a critical production incident.
I also treat the non-functional requirements as first-class — often above the feature itself. I design for availability, resiliency, and zero-downtime, build in automated backups and self-healing, hold a hard line on P1s, and sweat the user experience. Software earns customer trust by staying up and behaving — not just by what it ships.
Access control ran through RedisGraph across multiple permission layers — and it couldn't keep up. I designed and built a custom in-memory graph database to replace it, CRDT-replicated across regions for conflict-free consistency. The performance the system actually needed, at Apple scale — a from-scratch answer when the off-the-shelf tool fell short.
Managed cloud agents that follow an agentic-engineering pipeline to onboard every project and repository across the org onto Kubernetes. AI agents doing the engineering work themselves — a migration at a scale that simply isn't feasible by hand.
A founder project: a LangGraph multi-agent system that triages, diagnoses, and resolves property-maintenance issues end to end — coordinating across tenants, vendors, and owners. Built for the failure modes and reliability bar that real production traffic demands.
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