From business idea to shipped reality.
I operate fluently in both worlds — the boardroom and the codebase. A collection of the capabilities I bring to turning vision into modern, working products.
Lead pillar
Idea → Reality
Turning ambiguous business vision into modern, innovative digital products that actually ship.
Discovery & problem framing
Cut through a vague brief to the real problem, the user, and the outcome worth building.
Vision → solution architecture
Translate business goals into a pragmatic technical plan and the smallest thing that proves value.
Innovation & R&D
Evaluate emerging tech (AI, on-device, cloud-native) and turn it into a defensible product edge.
Product strategy
Sequence a roadmap that balances quick wins, technical foundation, and long-term direction.
How it ships
Leadership & Delivery
Building high-trust teams and reliably hitting milestones — while keeping directors and engineers aligned.
Team scaling & org design
Grow teams and structures that stay fast and accountable as headcount and scope increase.
Delivery & milestone ownership
Own the commitment end-to-end; de-risk early, communicate honestly, and land the date.
Director ↔ engineer translation
Turn business intent into buildable scope, and engineering reality into board-ready options.
Mentorship & capability building
Coach engineers and leads; hire well and raise the bar so the team outlasts any one project.
Where the work is going
AI Systems
Building AI that survives contact with real users — not demos that only work on the happy path.
AI agents & LLM integration
AI agent development and LLM integration, self-hosted or managed.
RAG & knowledge systems
Custom retrieval over private knowledge bases — pgvector, Pinecone, and Bedrock inference profiles.
Real-time voice agents
LiveKit WebRTC agents with separate STT, LLM, and TTS models, tuned for low-latency turn-taking.
On-device AI
Apple MLX and Core ML on M-series silicon — and the on-device vs cloud trade-off.
Read the seriesThe depth behind it
Technical Breadth
Genuinely hands-on across the stack — I lead from a place of real technical understanding.
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, infrastructure-as-code, serverless, CI/CD, and deployment reliability.
Mobile & Apple
iOS, Swift and SwiftUI — architecture, navigation, and animation that ships.
IBM i / AS400 modernization
RPG and heavyweight SOAP re-fronted as documented REST APIs, with DB2 kept as the source of truth.
Enterprise systems
Java & Spring Boot, .NET, and the integration layers that hold enterprise systems together.
Architecture
Modular, maintainable systems sized to the team and the load — not the hype.