Technology & Engineering Leader

• Lead technology strategy, platform engineering, and AI/ML adoption for clients operating in regulated, privacy-sensitive environments.
• Built secure on-prem AI and automation platforms using Talos/NixOS clusters, GPUs, encrypted mesh networking, and event-driven workflows.
• Delivered private inference and document automation systems with classification, routing, extraction, and workflow orchestration.
• Defined technology roadmaps, governance models, delivery cadences, and SLO/SLI frameworks tied to business KPIs.
• Constructed data ingestion and processing pipelines with schema validation, routing, and ML enrichment.
• Ran discovery, scoping, financial modeling, and de-risking spikes for new AI/ML-driven products.

Cross-Functional Team Leadership

• Led two cross-functional engineering teams (5–8 engineers each); owned hiring, performance, coaching, and team health.
• Partnered with product/design leadership to drive outcome-focused roadmaps and remove structural bottlenecks.
• Raised engineering maturity: CI/CD improvements, observability rollout, test strategy enhancements, incident/on-call playbooks.
• Known internally as a neutral, effective conflict-resolution point across engineering, product, and operations.

Director-Track QA Organization Build (0→1)

• Designed the charter, org structure, hiring plan, competency framework, and operating cadence for the new QA department.
• Hired initial senior QA engineers and established interview loops, onboarding paths, and quality KPIs.
• Built foundational test strategy, governance model, and tooling direction.
• Rollout halted due to a company-wide financial freeze, but foundational processes were adopted by multiple teams.

• Modernized service boundaries and deployment processes.
• Drove early DevOps adoption and delivery stabilization.

• Led vision and roadmap for an applied AI/ML platform.
• Built the initial team, shaped product strategy, and established R&D practices.

• Delivered backend features, improved reliability, and established engineering norms (CI, monitoring, code reviews).

• Delivered backend features, improved reliability, and established engineering norms (CI, monitoring, code reviews).

• Principal investigator for a major applied R&D project focusing on MEMS/accelerometer-based sensing and embedded navigation systems.
• Led a cross-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists through prototyping, testing, performance validation, and integration.
• Primary interface to external funding bodies; responsible for reporting, milestone alignment, and deliverable acceptance.
• Oversaw technical scope, risk, and financial reconciliation with internal accounting/compliance units.
• Delivered validated prototypes, reliability analyses, and formal documentation under strict performance criteria.