Engineering leader · Advisor · Mentor
I shape the systems people rely on, and the teams behind them.
Twenty-five years across production infrastructure, security, reliability, and now AI engineering. I advise founders and mentor technologists.
About meWriting
All writingWorking paper · May 2026
Software
Engineering 3.0
The Rise of Orchestrated Engineering
How implementation abundance is restructuring software engineering, and the way we build, lead, and develop teams, for the next decade.
Read the paperWeek of June 8–14: Two Engines, One Sanctuary on Vision Pro
A week building meditation environments for Apple Vision Pro across RealityKit and Unreal Engine — rippling water, time-of-day lighting, and a 13-round performance marathon to get UE's first light on the headset.
I Built a Vision Pro Meditation App in a Weekend
Saturday night: empty repo. Sunday: a Vision Pro meditation app ready for the App Store. How I built Sanctuary, a spatial sound bath, in a single weekend, and how much finicky engineering it takes to make a room feel calm.
Cheaper tokens, bigger bills
Why your AI bill goes up as prices come down, and what Uber's blown budget actually tells us.
Experience
Full résumé
I lead the AI Engineering and DevSecOps teams at Hoag Digital.
As the first DevOps engineer, I built the company’s AWS foundation and led its migration from Heroku. I owned security and compliance through its early growth.
I built a DevOps and reliability team in Los Angeles and led cloud migration work for PlayStation Network, helping engineering teams adopt microservices and containers.
I built the team and cloud infrastructure behind RedBull.TV’s streaming platform, and also helped the team behind Red Bull Sound Select.
I designed music streaming infrastructure at Rdio and mentored systems administrators. I then helped bring Rdio’s platform into Pandora and contributed architecture and early infrastructure work to what became Pandora Premium.
As Lead UNIX/Linux Engineer, I helped run and modernize Hotwire’s production infrastructure, and worked across teams on engineering practices and company culture.I also helped Expedia’s engineers resolve difficult technical problems.
Independent projects
Explore the workEnharmonic
Music discovery from your own library. AI interprets the request; the application selects the music.
Visit Spatial computingSanctuary
A quiet place on Vision Pro, built through careful attention to light, presence, and spatial sound.
Visit Everyday toolsRoutines
Less friction in the day. Step-by-step routines and timers, kept alongside your notes in Obsidian.
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