Engineering leader who builds. Setting direction, growing teams, and shipping product.

Experience

Director of Engineering

Qualia Labs, Inc · San Francisco, CA · 2021–Present

Managing 8 teams across five product lines spanning AI automation, fraud prevention, payments infrastructure, and marketplace services. Owning roadmap execution, technical strategy, and org health for 35+ engineers.

Early Engineer → CTO

Braid, Inc · San Francisco, CA · 2019–2021

Joined as an early hire, grew into the CTO role. Owned product roadmap, technical direction, and hiring through the company's growth phase. Full-stack across React Native, web, and Java Spring.

Engineering Manager → Staff Engineer

PlayStation · Madison, WI / San Francisco, CA · 2011–2019

Built and led frontend web engineering for store.playstation.com. 20+ engineers, 100M+ users, $100M+ ARR. Ended my tenure as a Staff Engineer working on social features for the then-unreleased PS5.

Earlier Roles

ProTech Marketing · UW Dept. of Medicine · PressEnter Creative · 2003–2011

Full-stack engineering across agencies, healthcare, and creative studios.

Skills

Architecture & Infrastructure

TypeScript, React Native, GraphQL, Node.js, K8s, Pulumi, GCP, AWS

Leadership

Org design, roadmap ownership, cross-functional execution, hiring at scale

Education

University of Wisconsin, River Falls

B.S. Management of Information Systems, Cum Laude · 1999–2003