I've built things from nothing.
As a co-founder and principal architect at Fugue, I went from blank slate to production — leading design of the first iterations of what became Fugue's infrastucture-as-code SaaS. At Block, I was the founding engineer hired to build the "c=" Lightning business. Partnering with a great team to go from zero-to-one is the most fun for me.
I've operated at Google scale.
I worked four and a half years at Google — first as a Solutions Architect advising large accounts in different verticals, like Twitter, OpenAI, Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO), Citadel, and Two Sigma. I focused on storage for high-throughput cloud workloads. Then I worked as a PM for Google Cloud Storage, where I drove features in the GCS client SDKs, and initiated a major infrastructure feature (hierarchical metadata) now accelerating large-scale AI dataset training.
I've led teams through hard reliability work.
At Block, I led the 5-person team behind Lightning Network infrastructure for Cash App and Square — ~1.5M transactions per month, the 5th-largest routing node in the world, 3.5 nines of reliability. Fast-moving tech, real money, production stakes. My roots in this kind of work began with the United States Coast Guard, where I learned the ropes for building safety-critical, highly reliable messaging systems.
I write and think about what I build.
During my Google years I wrote practical technical pieces published in the official Google Cloud Medium publication — on predicting GCS retrieval costs, building storage object inventories in BigQuery, and monitoring egress at scale. Writing is how I really confirm, and hopefully share, what I've learned.