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 infrastructure-as-code SaaS. At Block, I was the founding engineer hired to build the "c=" Lightning business. Going zero-to-one with a great team is the most fun for me.
I've operated at Google scale.
I spent almost five years at Google — first as a Solutions Architect advising large accounts across verticals: 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 namespace) 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 at peak, the world's 5th-largest routing node by capacity, 99.95% node uptime. Fast-moving tech, real money, production stakes. My roots in this kind of work began with the United States Coast Guard, where I learned to build 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 confirm what I've learned — and how I share it.