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.
Thoughts on engineering leadership, technical architecture, and team building
Why the question isn't 'can the model do arithmetic?' but 'does it know which rule to apply?'. Exploring synthetic data for evaluating reasoning in government benefits policy.
Exploring the revival of tactile design on the web. A first look at my new open source Astro theme that embraces skeuomorphism and retro-inspired aesthetics.
A roundup of small AI experiments I've been building - MCP servers, benefits navigators, policy engines, and local model fine-tuning - all exploring how AI can make government more accessible.
A selection of technical and leadership projects that showcase my expertise
Automated & Verified Reviews for Your Business - helping companies collect and display verified customer reviews.
Beautiful HTML Email Designs Made Easy - a CodePen-inspired platform specifically for creating, editing, and sharing email templates.
Personalized Podcast platform built during Buildspace Season 5 - converting your interests, location, and more into a personalized audio experience.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
