Engineering executive with 25+ years in software and 15+ years in leadership, currently leading a Platform Engineering organization of 140+ engineers.
Lead a multi-layer organization (managers of managers), owning technology strategy, operating model, cross-team architecture, and outcomes across reliability, scalability, developer experience, and cost efficiency.
Recent impact includes a 28% reduction in cycle time, a 41% reduction in hardware cost, and a 38% reduction in dev operations effort.
Build and evolve platform and infrastructure as internal services with a product mindset, improving developer experience, engineering effectiveness, and reliability.
Background spans 1M+ CCU distributed systems, internal cloud platforms, and DevOps transformations, backed by 15+ years of hands-on distributed real-time system engineering in Java, Python, and Erlang.
My hobbies are designing and developing Minecraft plugins in Java (2M+ downloads in total) and
asset allocation and international taxation (educated 10k+ people).