Outcomes I deliver
The kind of results I bring to an engagement — measured, in production, under real constraints.
I make systems work when the stakes are real.
For 13 years I was a fintech CTO and acting CISO — running trading and risk platforms at 99.999% uptime while the business scaled from ~$800M to $15B in assets. I built that engineering org from its first hire to ~40 people across time zones, and owned the security, IT, and disaster-recovery framework end to end.
Today I architect multi-model LLM and agentic AI systems in Rust — the platforms, the agent runtimes, and the governance around them — and ship them to production on Kubernetes and AWS. I still write the hard parts myself.
I care about the unglamorous things that decide whether AI actually ships: security, reliability, cost, and the team that has to own it after I'm gone.
How I build
The convictions I bring to every engagement — the reasons the work actually ships.
Production is the only proof
A demo that never ships is a liability. I optimize for the boring path to production — deploys, rollbacks, on-call — because that's where value actually lands.
Secure & auditable by default
I came up in regulated fintech as an acting CISO. AI systems get the same rigor: SSO, access control, per-team cost attribution, and an audit trail — not bolted on later.
Own the stack, then hand it back
I write the hard parts and set the standards, then leave teams a platform they can run without me. Leverage beats heroics.
Measure or it didn't happen
Deploy time, inference cost, MTTR, uptime. If we can't watch it move, we're guessing. Every engagement ships with the numbers that matter.
Work with me
Need a second opinion, a fractional leader, or someone to build and ship it? Here's how to put 25 years to work.
AI Platform & Agent Advisory
Architecture reviews, agent-system design, and a senior set of eyes on your AI roadmap before you bet the quarter on it. Fixed-scope sprints or an ongoing retainer.
- Platform & agent-system architecture review
- LLM orchestration & MCP infrastructure strategy
- Security, SOC 2 & AI-governance review
- Technical due diligence
Fractional VP Platform / AI
Senior platform & AI leadership without a full-time hire. I own the roadmap, set the standards, hire and level up the team — and still write the hard parts.
- Platform & AI roadmap + standards
- SRE, SOC 2, FinOps discipline
- Hire, mentor, and unblock the team
- A few focused days a month
Build the system, to production
Hands-on engagements where I come in and ship it — the agent platform, the Rust service, the Kubernetes/AWS infra — production-grade and SOC 2-ready. Fixed scope, real delivery.
- Agent runtimes & LLM platforms in Rust
- Kubernetes / AWS / Terraform infra
- Production-grade, regulated-ready
- Clear scope, shipped
Open to the right full-time role
If it's genuinely the right fit, I'm open to VP / Staff / Principal AI-Platform roles too — someone who owns the platform strategy and writes the hard parts.
- VP/CTO-level + still hands-on
- AI platform & agent systems
- 25 years across hard, regulated domains
- Let's talk
Selected Work
A few systems I designed, built, and shipped end-to-end — pick one and go deep.
On-Chain Trading & Blockchain Infra
Production blockchain across Solana, Ethereum, Polygon & Cosmos — an on-chain staking program for a sports-betting product, an order-management system and trade-signal pipelines for Polymarket, and a real-time market-insights analytics engine.
Enterprise AI Governance
Secure, audited, fully-tracked LLM usage via Obot & Bifrost — centralized access control and per-team cost attribution across a ~50-engineer organization.
Risk & Trading Platforms
Architected AWS/Azure infrastructure for quantitative analysis and risk modeling at an insurance-linked-securities firm — 99.999% uptime, SOC 2, FinOps cutting infra spend 35%, while AUM scaled from ~$800M to $15B.
Open Source
~37 public repos — Rust, AI agents, and the plumbing in between.
Experience
Twenty-five years turning infrastructure into leverage — and teams into platforms.
Capabilities
The tools I reach for, grouped by where they earn their keep.
- Agentic AI & agents
- LLM orchestration
- Model Context Protocol
- Multi-model fusion
- Token / cost optimization
- AI governance (Obot/Bifrost)
- OpenAI · Anthropic · LangChain
- Rust
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Go
- SQL
- Bash
- PowerShell
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- AWS · Azure
- Terraform · Helm · Docker
- GitHub Actions CI/CD
- Prometheus · Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- PostgreSQL · Redis
- CISO-level leadership
- Security / IT / DR frameworks
- SOC 2 & financial-reg compliance
- Identity & SSO (Okta/OAuth2)
- Network security
- VMware (1,000+ node estates)
- SAN & storage architecture
- HPC & cluster design
- LAN/WAN networking
- DR & business continuity
- Custom website & web-app design
- Full-stack (Rust · Vue · TypeScript)
- Streaming chat & gen-AI UIs
- Front-end build & UX
- Web performance
- Workflow & marketing automation
- Multi-agent GTM engines
- Data scraping & analysis engines
- Agentic & data pipelines
- Rapid prototyping (15+ presales)
- Trading systems & OMS
- Regulated fintech (SOC 2)
- Blockchain (Solana/Ethereum/Polygon/Cosmos)
- Enterprise AI governance
- Presales / solutions engineering
- SRE & incident management
Range
Proof I ship across domains: native apps, published fiction, original research.
Shipped iOS apps & games
PULSAR: Neon Gravity
A one-thumb neon synthwave reflex game. Tap to flip gravity, thread a glowing orb through hazards, ride an original soundtrack.
30-Day Challenger
On-device fitness challenge app with privacy-first design.
Writing & research
TSR
Original interdisciplinary theory, including a Coq formalization.
↗Let's build
something.
Tell me what you're trying to ship. Most engagements start with a 30-minute call to see if I'm the right person for it.