Fractional CTO and Advisor

High-Impact AI services and solutions. Engagements include:

• Strategic Advisor for AI platform for an AI platform for offshoring companies. Assist in fundraising strategy, technical strategy, and product development.
• Product Strategy for a new local agentic AI startup.

Email: [email protected] to discuss how I can help your company.

LiquidTrust - CTO

Tech: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Express.js, Nest.js, TypeORM, Terraform, AWS, Logz.io SIEM, Opentelemetry, Azure (to support earlier products)

Launched novel global payments platform in 4 months for this new fintech product providing global payments for small businesses. Defined and executed strategic technical roadmap for new product development, key enterprise integrations, supporting market expansion and growth. Earned SOC 2 Type 2 security compliance using team of globally outsourced QA and devs. Led workshops to developers on how to improve coding quality and speed through thoughtful usage of AI coding tools.

Novex AI - CTO and Co-Founder

Novex AI delivers AI solutions for mid-sized and enterprise companies. Led delivery of multiple projects effectively operationalizing machine learning and Generative AI.

Tech: Python, AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Databricks, LLM APIs (OpenAI), Vector Databases (Postgres pgvector, Pinecode), Langchain

Note: Novex AI is a sub-brand of Retina AI

• Accelerating LLM operations with parallel-parrot
• Building a useful map of modern LLMs

Retina AI - CTO and Co-Founder

Retina AI is a venture-backed data science and machine learning company. Mutiple production web, dataops, big data, and data science products with a focus on predicting customer behavior.

Tech: Javascript (Express.js, Vue.js, DevExtreme, Highcharts, Plotly), Python (Flask, FastAPI), R, Spark (Databricks), Serverless, Docker, Snowflake, Firebolt, AWS

• Retina AI in the media
• Marketing Data Checklist
• 7 Ways Machine Learning Projects Fail
• DataOps Principles
• Serverless Principles
• Databricks Blog: How Retina Uses Databricks Container Services

Topaz Labs - Dir of Engineering

Topaz Labs uses AI to enhance images and video. Led engineering team for this profitable, bootstrapped company.

As featured by industry partners (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple), Topaz Labs is the leader in deep learning-based image and video enhancement for photographers. Topaz Labs products are used by tens of thousands of photographers and videographers around the world.

Tech: C++ (Qt Framework), Python (Tensorflow, PyTorch, FastAPI), Javascript (React, Express), AWS

ScaleFunder - Dir of Engineering

Led software engineering team for this crowdfunding platform for universities and non-profits. PCI Compliant platform. Hybrid onshore/offshore team.

Company was successfully acquired by Ruffalo Noel Levitz.

Tech: Python (Pyramid, SQLAlchemy), Javascript (AngularJS), AWS

Walla Media - VP of Technology

Architected innovative technology solutions and built/led combined onshore and offshore development team for this fast-moving profitable online marketing company with nearly $1M in monthly revenue and over 1M page visits a day. Enabled multiple business pivots with modular, reliable systems and platforms.

Personally created domain-specific language / web framework to enable web designers to build hundreds of complex lead-generation websites using extensions of HTML 5. Included plug-in modules for external APIs, dynamic tracking of inbound calls, and implicit input validation and tracking.

Tech: PHP (Symfony framework), JavaScript (Angular, React, Express)

Griffith Park Media - CTO

Built technology and team for this email marketing SaaS company. Platform managed and delivered email marketing campaigns, with detailed tracking that fed into a geo-demographic targeting and segmentation using statistical techniques. Technology competitive with or ahead of competition at the time (e.g. MailChimp)

Tech: Java (J2EE), PHP, Javascript, MySQL

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - S.B. Physics

MIT TEAL Program - Research Assistant

MIT Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) was a pilot program at the time, but is now the standard way that MIT teaches introductory physics. Developed novel simulations and visualizations of electromagnetic fields and waves for use in the TEAL classroom.

Tech: Java, 3D Studio Max