I turn emerging technology into products that work at scale.

Principal Engineer at Apple, currently building agentic systems. Twenty-five years across hands-on engineering, product, ML, and company building.

I have spent most of that time where the technology is emerging and the product is not obvious yet. I have been writing here since 2003, mostly to understand the pattern underneath all of it.

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The technology changes. The job keeps rhyming.

Find the leverage point early, connect the technical work to a real product, and build whatever else the outcome requires.

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2019 - Present

Apple

Principal Engineer, Agentic Systems

Built at Apple scale, from petabyte data infrastructure to speech and now agentic systems.

Grew a speech platform organization from 5 to 50+ engineers

2017 - 2019

Sayari

VP, Product Engineering

Turned a consulting workflow into a graph intelligence product built on billions of public records.

Built engineering, data science, and product teams from scratch

2013 - 2017

Clothes Horse to Rakuten

First engineer to VP, Engineering

Built an ML sizing platform, stayed through two acquisitions, then led product and engineering globally.

Retail integrations for Macy’s and Nordstrom

2008 - 2015

Founder and CTO years

Founder, CTO, technical architect

Built products in e-commerce, wine, fitness, and trucking while the underlying markets were changing.

Raised seed capital for Notches

2001 - 2008

Goldman Sachs

Investment Banking Technology

Learned scale by building browser frameworks and compliance systems that other engineers depended on.

Pre-jQuery application framework used across the division

Writing is how the pieces connect.

Essays, short notes, and an archive that started before social media had a name.

Follow a thread

The independent lab.

I build these systems alone, with a team of agents, to push ideas until they become products or show me where the boundary actually is.

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Voxelbox

2024 - Present

An agent OS for how humans and AI work together.

Solo founder, architect and builder

  • Named stewards with durable ownership
  • Agent mail, dispatch, jobs, and memory
  • Local-first model and usage infrastructure
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Maverick

2025 - Present

An AI-native incubator for AI-native startups.

Founder, product and systems

  • Evidence-first company formation
  • Guided FlightPlan workflow
  • Shared infrastructure across new ventures
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Vinelog / Sotto

2012 - Present

A connected hospitality ecosystem built from a 15-year obsession with taste and discovery.

Solo founder, product and engineering

  • Three connected hospitality products
  • One shared wine and hospitality entity system
  • Vinelog running in production

DynastyDB

2007 - Present

The operating system for one very serious dynasty fantasy football league.

Solo founder, product and engineering

  • Live auction and contract system
  • Long-running league history and workflows
  • In-place migration from MVC to Blazor
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