Engineering leader.
Hands-on builder.

Joined to improve the SLDC and was soon after asked to run product engineering through what turned out to be the company's most consequential year: a full replatform off a four-year-old legacy monolith, a first-of-its-kind AI governance program, and a measurable upgrade to security posture ahead of an active fundraise.

The replatform delivered in roughly six months, with the new microservices-based application taking over core compliance workflows while existing customers kept working. Underneath it: a dual-board Jira workflow that drove sprint burndown toward 95% predictability, a Playwright-based E2E QA suite we called Test-a-palooza, and a release cadence the org could actually plan against.

On the AI side, I built the company's governance framework end-to-end — data classification tiers (Public / Internal / Confidential / Restricted), acceptable-use policy, all-hands training, and the disciplinary enforcement that made the policy real. Built an internal AWS Bedrock-based chat interface that gave employees governed AI access without opening the enterprise surface. Ran a multi-session incubator that trained non-engineering staff to build their own internal AI tools within sanctioned guardrails.

Security work in the same window: centralized GitHub Enterprise, mandated corporate AI accounts, rolled out SAML SSO with SCIM via AWS IAM Identity Center, deployed JumpCloud MDM, and standardized agentic-coding guardrails through CLAUDE.md configuration enforcing manager approval for destructive operations. Evaluated and selectively rejected MCP server integrations on security grounds where the risk/value calculus didn't favor them.

Joined Salesloft to take a high-traffic web platform that had been built fast and run hot, and turn it into a real engineering function. Architected and shipped a headless platform on Next.js, decoupling content from presentation, replacing a legacy monolith, and delivering an 80+ point Lighthouse performance gain alongside measurable business impact.

The bigger contribution was less visible: established the engineering org's SDLC from the ground up — sprint cadence, Jira and Confluence workflows, code review standards, and technical documentation. The kind of foundational work that changes how every subsequent feature gets built.

Managed and mentored a multidisciplinary team, partnering with product, design, and data stakeholders to deliver scalable, high-performance systems against demanding reliability and performance bars.

Three Ships acquires editorial properties and operates them at scale. I led technical due diligence and migration strategy on acquisitions — including This Old House and Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford — and wrote the migration code that brought each new property onto the platform.

Built custom migration scripts and optimization frameworks that improved post-acquisition revenue. Much of the work was forensic: understanding an inherited codebase, identifying gaps, and deciding what to refactor versus rebuild.

States Newsroom is a national nonprofit running state-level political journalism outlets across roughly thirty states. I joined during a period of significant growth and stayed through several inflection points, including the 2020 election cycle.

Engineered APIs and platform infrastructure for a multi-tenant publishing system supporting five million-plus weekly sessions across the national network, with a focus on reliability, security, and database integration. Led platform decisions in a high-stakes editorial environment where uptime and data integrity were non-negotiable.

Samanage was an IT service management company acquired by SolarWinds in 2019. Shipped front-end systems, DevOps workflows, PHP back-end features, and ran a weekly multivariate optimization program against the marketing surface. Got firsthand experience with what an acquisition by a much larger company looks like for an engineering org.