Technical Team Lead, AI — Jan 2025 – Present (1 yr 6 mo)

Led the technical direction, architecture, and execution strategy for one of the most complex product and engineering transitions in Glide's history. Helped rethink the core product model from traditional no-code app building to an AI-assisted, vibe-coded development experience, organizing the work across engineering, product, design, and company leadership.

Drove foundational technical decisions behind two rapid architecture evolutions, ultimately arriving at Glide's Cloudflare-based agentic platform, released in June 2026. This included defining the system architecture for agentic app generation, shaping the agentic runtime model, and establishing the infrastructure patterns needed to support AI-driven application development.

Served as both technical leader and hands-on IC contributor, leading from the front while building the early code that shaped the platform's initial architecture, agentic loop, deployment harness, and core engineering primitives. Worked across the stack to turn ambiguous product direction into working systems, then used those early implementations to de-risk the architecture, align the team, and accelerate execution. Combined architecture, engineering leadership, and hands-on implementation to move the organization through a high-ambiguity transformation with clear deliverables, incremental milestones, and pragmatic technical decisions.

Technical Team Lead, Core & Platform Teams — Jun 2023 – Jan 2025 (1 yr 8 mo)

Led Glide's Platform and Core Engineering teams, responsible for the foundational infrastructure, engineering primitives, and core product systems. Specialized in organizing complex, high-risk engineering initiatives across teams and stakeholders by turning ambiguous platform goals into clear deliverables, incremental milestones, and de-risked execution plans.

Set technical direction, aligned priorities across product and engineering, and created the structure needed for teams to deliver meaningful platform improvements without disrupting the core product experience. The teams drove major modernization efforts including internal developer platform investments, microservices decomposition, large-scale database migration work, production infrastructure improvements, and reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency initiatives that improved engineering velocity, scalability, and the long-term maintainability of the platform.

Founder — Jan 2023 – Present (3 yr 6 mo)

Personal incubator exploring agentic systems design and how to bring the unique capabilities of LLMs to everyday business workflows.

Products incubated here include:

Ember (Jun 2026 – Present) — An AI-native content site builder that turns natural conversation into fully designed, published websites. No dashboard, no theme browsers, no CMS to learn.

ImageGPT (Dec 2025 – Present) — The fastest way to generate images. Generate, serve, and cache AI images directly from an image URL. No API keys, no SDKs, no backend required.

SheetGPT (Feb 2023 – Sep 2024) — Put the power of AI in Google Sheets as one of the very first to support OpenAI in the Google Workspace Marketplace. Successfully exited in Sep 2024.

Founder — Jan 2018 – Present (8 yr 6 mo)

Private equity company managing several commercial real estate investment partnerships across North and South Carolina.

CTO — Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 (1 yr 1 mo)

As the company's technical executive, responsible for both the function of the Engineering organization and the long-term technical health of its systems. Worked with the rest of the executive team as we transitioned from a startup environment to a venture-funded and accountable organization.

VP of Engineering / Director of Engineering — Oct 2015 – Jan 2019 (3 yr 4 mo)

Supported great engineers and engineering managers to deliver foundational payment processing products. Grew the team from a few engineers to a department of 30+. Responsible for the structure, processes, and ultimate efficacy of Spreedly Engineering.

Senior Software Engineer — Jan 2014 – Oct 2015 (1 yr 10 mo)

As an early employee, helped implement and deliver great products in the payment processing space using an outside-in, customer-driven, product delivery approach.

Senior Software Engineer — Feb 2012 – Jan 2014 (2 yr)

Senior Engineer for a variety of Ruby/Ruby on Rails services that comprised the Heroku platform. Working in small teams, wore a variety of hats including product manager, documentarian, and engineer.

Partner Advocate — Feb 2011 – Jan 2012 (1 yr)

Established, managed, and grew the Heroku partner program from zero to over 100 member companies. Managed indirect sales channel to maximize success and revenue from partner community. Defined and implemented strategies for approaching new partner verticals. Constructed and presented partner enablement material of both highly technical and strategic nature.

Co-Founder & Chief Architect — Jun 2009 – Jan 2011 (1 yr 8 mo)

As COO and Chief Architect, responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company as well as ensuring a consistent development and architectural approach across all projects.

CTO — May 2007 – Jan 2011 (3 yr 9 mo)

Founded the iPhone and Ruby-based independent development company, providing Ruby and Rails based project development.

Lead Engineer — Sep 2004 – Apr 2007 (2 yr 8 mo)

Consulted with clients about business and technical needs to form a target candidate architecture and approach — and was then responsible for leading and implementing the resulting systems.

Director of Engineering — Jan 2003 – Sep 2004 (1 yr 9 mo)

Managed a team of programmers in the development of multiple clinical trials and data management (J2EE and VB) applications.

Senior Software Engineer — May 2001 – Dec 2002 (1 yr 8 mo)

Implemented Java and web-based clinical trial management systems.

Software Engineer — May 2000 – Apr 2001 (1 yr)

Worked extensively with Java technologies to build and support the company's suite of XML asset management tools.