I learned to lead by staying close to the work.
The people part of the job is the part I take most seriously. I've managed senior engineers who want autonomy and have strong opinions about everything, and junior developers who need real mentorship and clear direction. I try to figure out what each person actually needs, not just apply the same playbook to everyone.
I'm at my best when I'm close enough to the code to have real opinions about it, but focused on unblocking the people actually writing it. I still build things — internal tools at work, side projects at home. I don't think you lead engineers well if you've completely stopped being one.
Outside of work, I play drums and guitar, watch way too many A24 movies, and follow sports with probably unnecessary intensity.
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Built VitalSource Launch, an LMS integration platform.
Netflix Prodicle suite, then led the Veeps re-platform to Elixir.
Promoted to EM, leading 13 individuals across engineering, QA, and UX on concurrent engagements.
Promoted after three years leading team members and overseeing successful projects.
Promoted to lead the engineering department.
Engineering Leadership
Four years leading cross-discipline teams across concurrent client engagements: the people, the delivery, and the org-building. Doubled a client's recurring revenue, helped close a first $3B+ customer, and built tools, guides, and a new engineering role that outlived any single project.
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NFL survivor-pool optimizer that ingests live sportsbook odds, removes bookmaker margin to find true win probabilities, and uses mixed-integer programming to compute the optimal pick sequence. Includes Monte Carlo simulation, survival/hazard analysis with confidence intervals, and per-game what-if overrides.
Veeps
Rebuilding a livestream concert platform for scale. Led an 11-person team through a full rebuild from Rails to Elixir, solving a thundering-herd problem for million-fan on-sale events. Stabilized the legacy app and data model first, then built the new backend and backstage. Promoted to Engineering Manager during the engagement.
Prodicle Distribution
Rescuing and scaling one of Netflix's two "critical" applications. Inherited a struggling critical app drowning in support tickets and became its de facto team lead, cutting tickets to near zero and slashing job times.
Prodicle Passport
Identity and access gateway for the production toolkit. Shipped Passport v2 with new backend APIs, Netflix endpoint integrations, and async processing that cut page loads from 15 to 20 seconds down to under two.
Platform & Tooling
Shared libraries, architecture, and observability. Integrated and improved the shared Prodicle Core library, contributed to the wider architecture, and published an internal metrics gem for endpoint monitoring and alerting.
VitalSource Launch
LMS integration and course materials delivery platform. Built and maintained the platform through a period of rapid growth and a major acquisition, connecting learning management systems, campus bookstores, and publishers into a unified experience for millions of students.
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