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Senior Engineering Lead & Tech Architect with 10+ years of experience in scaling teams and driving digital transformation. Expert in writing code, enterprise architecture, technical strategy, and team development. Previously led engineering at Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the CTO (USDS) and high-growth startups. Now focused on applied AI systems: agentic architecture, LLM orchestration (AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Model Context Protocol), and AI-native tooling for public-sector and enterprise service delivery.

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Latest Posts

Thoughts on engineering leadership, technical architecture, and team building

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development projects +4

Building GiantCheck: How Fast Can You Ship a Real Product?

I built GiantCheck - a tool for designing and printing giant ceremonial checks - as a speed experiment. Started July 11th, live with Stripe payments a couple weeks later. Here's the stack, and why SST keeps winning on velocity.

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The Rubber Stamp Problem

Human-in-the-loop only works if humans are actually looking. When volume is high and consequences feel abstract, they aren't. There's a way to test for this, and most teams aren't using it.

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ai government +2

ATO Wasn't Built for Systems That Change at Inference Time

The Authority to Operate process assumes deterministic system behavior. AI systems aren't deterministic. That gap is going to cause problems.

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Featured Projects

A selection of technical and leadership projects that showcase my expertise

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Technical Projects

Technical Project

Snap Sentiment

Automated & Verified Reviews for Your Business - helping companies collect and display verified customer reviews.

Next.js Stripe AWS Tailwind
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Technical Project

Email Bits

Beautiful HTML Email Designs Made Easy - a CodePen-inspired platform specifically for creating, editing, and sharing email templates.

Machine Learning React Tailwind AWS
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Technical Project

In Short Pod

Personalized Podcast platform built during Buildspace Season 5 - converting your interests, location, and more into a personalized audio experience.

Next.js Generative AI Text To Speech AWS Buildspace
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Technical Project

Cabeça de Queijo

Build a bi-lingual fan club website for the Green Bay Packers fans in Brazil. Figuring out how to grow the fan club and get more people involved.

Astro AWS i8n
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Leadership & Innovation

Leadership Project

Internal Developer Portal - CODE.VA.GOV

Led the development and launch of a Catalog Of Developer Essentials (CODE) as a 'best in government' internal developer portal that standardized software delivery pipelines and improved developer experience across the Department of Veterans Affairs. Contained self-service guides to common shared services and tools, and provided a 'Golden Path' template for developers to quickly deploy new applications with hundreds of cataloged APIs.

Backstage AWS Golden Path Templates GitHub
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Leadership Project

Denver Internet Initiative

Garnering 296,532 votes & passing with 82.05% `YES` - we organized the opt out of Senate Bill 152 in the City & County of Denver Colorado - allowing the City to, if they choose, offer telecommunications (internet, tv, etc) to their constituents.

Community Organizing Signature Collecting Fundraising
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For Fun

Fun Project

Digital Zen Garden

Built out a digital zen garden to help me relax and make a fund micro-site for the internet. It was a fun project to build and learn about HTML canvas.

HTML CSS JavaScript
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Fun Project

Website CO2 Emissions Tracker

Initially built in 72 hours, this project has been a fun way to track the CO2 emissions of government websites. Currently over 425,000 data points.

Astro Node Puppeteer Tailwind GitHub.com
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Fun Project

Guinness World Record - Tallest Stack of Waffles

After nearly a year of reviewing the official rules for what constitutes a waffle, we were able to break the previous record for the tallest stack of waffles.

Bureaucracy Waffles Records
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AI Systems Advisory

I advise teams building agentic and LLM-powered systems: agent orchestration on AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Model Context Protocol server design, and retrieval and evaluation architecture for compliance-sensitive domains.

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