20+ years building and operating production systems at scale — from Second Life's virtual world to Heroku's PaaS to MuleSoft's global compliance infrastructure. Now designing AI-native tools for the next era of distributed systems.
I've been in the engine room for over two decades. I've managed 1,000+ Linux servers supporting Second Life's 50 million users, built SRE culture at Heroku from the ground up as the first external hire, and led the compliance engineering that unlocked $173M in ACV for MuleSoft's regulated market expansion.
My edge isn't just the tenure — it's the breadth. I can write Terraform, debug a Kubernetes scheduler, build a Golang test suite, and lead a cross-functional incident response. I've operated at every layer of the stack, which means I design systems that actually survive contact with production.
Today I'm building AI-native tools — applying the same automation mindset I've carried for 20 years to the agentic era. Always be shipping. LedgerWatchdog is my current focus: an agentic billing intelligence platform in active development, purpose-built to keep my AI engineering skills sharp and prove out detection pipelines at scale.
The agentic era needs engineers who understand production.
AI agents fail in the same ways distributed systems fail — at scale, under load, at the edges.
I know how to build the infrastructure that makes them reliable.
Location: Ballston Spa, NY (fully remote since 2012)
Education: B.T. in CIS — SUNY Cobleskill, 2003
Currently: Principal SRE at MuleSoft / Salesforce
An agentic AI platform in active development that analyzes invoices and financial documents to detect duplicate charges, suspicious transactions, and tax write-off opportunities. Currently in alpha — built to prove out the detection pipeline before onboarding customers.
A personal project showcasing the history and character of The Winona Camps — a historic Adirondack property at Big Moose Station that I own. Built as both an archival showcase and a marketing platform ahead of sale.
An application for managing alpine team rosters and member coordination.
Looking for senior, principal, or staff-level engineering roles in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or AI systems. Open to full-time roles.