I sit at the intersection of deep systems expertise and AI-native engineering — where two decades of battle-hardened infrastructure meets the intelligence layer. From Second Life's virtual world to Heroku's PaaS to MuleSoft's global compliance platform. Now building for the agentic era.
"The engineers who will define the next decade aren't the ones who just learned AI — they're the ones who spent 20 years learning how systems fail, and now know exactly where to put the intelligence layer."
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 bring the rare combination of operational depth and AI-native thinking that turns
ambitious systems into reliable ones.
I don't just ship features — I build platforms.
Whether it's a Terraform pipeline, a compliance framework, or an agentic AI product,
I operate at the layer where engineering decisions become business outcomes.
Location: Ballston Spa, NY (fully remote since 2012)
Education: B.T. in CIS — SUNY Cobleskill, 2003
Currently: Principal SRE at MuleSoft / Salesforce
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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.
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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.