Collaborative engineering leader who thrives in high-trust environments with fast feedback loops and authentic direction-setting. Passionate about learning loops, structured decision-making, and data-informed leadership - built Decision Copilot to help teams make better choices together. Excels at leading initiatives I believe in and have helped shape, bringing genuine conviction rather than organizational theater. Values long-term thinking over quarterly theater and fixing root causes over chasing new shiny objects. Specializes in data reliability engineering, platform SRE, cross-functional team leadership, and pioneering work as Principled Context Engineer for AI agent orchestration.
Staff Software Engineer - AI Context Engineering Lead
Platform Engineering team member who evolved into pioneering role orchestrating AI agents for DevOps automation. Built cloud infrastructure and established practices for AI-assisted development workflows. Collaborative IP agreement enables continued Decision Copilot development.
- Pioneered AI agent orchestration for Kubernetes/Terraform automation - creating environments where AI agents collaborate and self-correct
- Continued Decision Copilot development through collaborative IP sharing agreement
- Built and maintained cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS for Imogen modernization platform
- Applied behavior-driven transformation methodology to legacy system modernization
Co-founder
Co-founded investment company focused on decision-making tools and small business finance applications. Built Decision Copilot from initial concept to open-source platform for structured team decision-making.
- Built Decision Copilot - open-source tool for structured team decision-making (started 2023-08)
- Developed full-stack applications using NextJS, React, and TypeScript for decision-making tools
- Established IP sharing agreement with Mechanical Orchard enabling collaborative development while retaining ownership
- Applied data-driven decision frameworks to business development and product strategy
Senior Staff Reliability Engineer
Established Data Reliability Practice for Shopify's platform, then transitioned to core SRE role maintaining commerce systems for 3 million merchants during peak traffic periods.
- Maintained platform reliability during $3.5M/minute peak traffic (BFCM) through data-driven monitoring
- Pioneered data reliability engineering practices for large-scale data lake infrastructure
- Applied long-term reliability thinking to commerce platform serving millions of merchants
Staff 2 Software Engineer (Data)
R&D Portfolio Insights team member who established data engineering practices and provided data-driven insights to business leadership across VMware's product portfolio.
- Built and maintained dagster.io data pipelines for cross-portfolio analytics
- Established telemetry gathering and data curation practices for R&D insights
- Created data-driven feedback loops for business unit strategic decisions
Director of Engineering/SRE
Engineering Lead orchestrating initiatives across 80+ R&D teams in 6 global offices. Built SRE team and established company-wide practices for reducing customer deployment friction.
- Orchestrated balanced leadership team driving shared outcomes across ~80 R&D teams globally
- Built SRE team from scratch to operate Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes platforms
- Established reliability practices for pivotaltracker.com (1M users) and UK charity donation platforms (£1B+ donations)
- Created data-driven understanding of enterprise customer upgrade challenges
- Collaborated with Google SRE engineers on SLI/SLO design and error budget implementation
Co-founder
Co-founded company creating log search solutions. Successfully acquired by Pivotal to form basis of PCF Log Search product.
- Created open-source ELK distribution for Cloud Foundry ecosystem
- Built product from concept to acquisition in 7 months
R&D Team Leader
Led R&D transformation at financial spread-betting company, establishing modern engineering practices and cloud adoption strategies.
- Established TDD & Agile practices across development teams
- Led organizational transition to open-source software adoption
- Pioneered migration to public cloud infrastructure
Agile Developer
Early career exposure to collaborative development practices on BBC's digital media platform.
- Learned foundational XP, TDD, and pair programming practices
- Contributed to Kangaroo digital media platform development