A designer, engineer, and founder in the Pacific Northwest. Three companies, 33 essays, one very good dog.
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Co-founded and built Kickplan as CTO—an AI-native platform that unifies SaaS billing, feature flags, pricing, and analytics in one infrastructure layer. Backed by $900K Pre-Seed from Mucker Capital, Cascade Seed Fund, and First Row Partners.
Enterprise-grade hybrid live event platform built from zero during COVID-19. Delivered 4K broadcast-quality streaming on AWS, scaled to 40,000+ concurrent users with 99.99% uptime, and raised $5M Seed—all within the same year.
VP of Product and Engineering, then CPO at Goldstar. Built the mobile engineering and ML organizations from scratch, scaled the team from 10 to 55, and drove the company to $150M+ in revenue and a successful exit to TodayTix Group—doubling TTG's North American audience to 20M+ users.