About Me
Engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling high-performance teams in regulated SaaS and AI-enabled environments. I bridge technical architecture with business outcomes — and I genuinely love the craft.
Right now
At Two Chairs, I lead a full-stack engineering team building AI-powered mental health products in a HIPAA-regulated environment — including AI Scribe, an LLM-driven documentation tool that achieved 75% clinician adoption and saves therapists ~30 minutes per session note. Yes, an AI tool therapists actually like.
The backstory
My career spans the full arc of startup engineering: from writing core infrastructure at Edmodo when the platform scaled from 1M to 50M users, to serving as CTO at Backbone PLM where I grew the team from 3 to 30+ engineers. I've led engineering across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare — always chasing that sweet spot of clarity, craft, and impact.
How I lead
I believe the best engineering cultures are built on psychological safety, technical excellence, and shared ownership. I've founded internal hackathons, built hiring frameworks from scratch, and coached engineers to senior and staff levels. My superpower? Building teams that ship great work long after I've moved on.
What gets me up
AI that actually works in the real world — with the right guardrails, data quality standards, and human judgment built in. I'm especially drawn to problems at the intersection of technology and human wellbeing: tools that give clinicians their time back, and systems that earn the trust of the people who depend on them.
Education
B.S. in Computer Science & Political Science, University of San Francisco.