Engineering operations and platform leader with a track record of driving organizational transformation through AI-first practices, DevOps culture, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
Led engineering team through critical public-company readiness initiatives—hardening financial systems, billing infrastructure, and compliance operations. Pioneered AI-first engineering practices adopted across multiple teams. Reduced billing run time by 83%, cut month-end close by 33%.
Built AI-native SaaS billing infrastructure platform from zero. Secured $900K Pre-Seed from Mucker Capital, Cascade Seed Fund, and First Row Partners. Architected cloud-native billing engine with Stripe and Shopify integration.
Spearheaded complete company pivot during COVID-19, building enterprise-grade livestreaming platform scaling to 40K+ concurrent users. Raised $5M Seed round. Zero code to paid live streaming in under 60 days.
Scaled Product, Design & Engineering from 10 to 55. Drove company growth beyond $150M revenue and successful acquisition by TodayTix Group. Built ML team delivering 20% conversion uplift. Increased deployment frequency from bi-weekly to 10× daily.
Established Portland office, led mobile transformation, developed patented "Sit with Friends" feature (US20120265564A1).
Second employee of pioneering SaaS billing platform. Launched at TechCrunch 50, investment from Mark Cuban. Later acquired by SaaS Capital.
AI-Augmented Developer Workflows, Agentic Coding & Context Engineering, Multi-Agent Orchestration, Shift-Left Quality, DORA Metrics, Developer Experience Platforms
AWS (MediaLive, MediaConvert, ECS, Lambda), Kubernetes, Microservices, Event Streaming, CI/CD Pipeline Architecture, Distributed Systems, Observability (Datadog)
Transformational Leadership, Lean & Dual-Track Agile, DevOps & Continuous Delivery, OKR Frameworks, P&L Management, Strategic Roadmapping
Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO