About
The Long Game in Tech
Two decades of building software, four industries, three companies founded — and the conviction that AI changes everything.
I started building for the web when the web was still figuring itself out. In the mid-2000s, I was engineering systems at MySpace and Yahoo! — platforms that defined an era and served hundreds of millions of users. That experience taught me what most engineers never get to see: what happens when your code is running at true internet scale.
A former colleague at Yahoo! described my approach as "methodical and uber logical — a great combination in an engineer. He has a great way of working with people and a sense of curiosity." That curiosity has been the through-line of my entire career.
From there, I moved into specialized domains. At TruthMD, I spent six years as Software Architect building a medical information enterprise backend serving both B2B and B2C segments — systems where data accuracy and reliability aren't optional, they're the entire product. At Superior Loan Servicing, I spent seven and a half years designing the data architecture and software systems that powered a complex financial services operation.
Along the way, I earned my B.S. in Accounting from the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business. It's an unusual background for an engineer, and that's the point. Understanding financial systems from both the technical and business side gives me a perspective that pure technologists often lack.
The Founder Chapter
In 2018, I founded Hopes, Dreams, Journey — a platform connecting parents with resources and support for their children's development. My first full founder experience: product design, development, marketing, and operations from zero. It taught me the hardest lessons about product-market fit, the grind of building something from zero, and the resilience it takes to keep going when nobody's watching.
In 2023, I went all-in on AI. I founded BlueThread.ai as CEO and CTO, building an AI-powered coordination platform for education and nonprofit organizations. The thesis is simple: the organizations doing the most important work in the world are drowning in coordination overhead. AI can fix that.
Simultaneously, I'm building SayIt — a field service SaaS platform — and Ishmael, an AI-powered multi-business marketing automation system that orchestrates content, advertising, and analytics across multiple companies and platforms.
How I Think About Technology
I believe the best technology disappears. The systems I build are designed to eliminate friction, not create features for their own sake. When I architect a solution, I'm thinking about data flow, edge cases, and what happens at 10x scale — not just what ships today.
AI isn't hype to me. It's the most significant shift in how software gets built since the internet itself. I work directly with the Claude API, GPT, Gemini, and multi-agent systems — not as a hobbyist, but as someone building production systems that depend on them. LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, multi-agent coordination — these are the tools I use every day.
My background in data architecture means I think about AI differently than most. I'm not just interested in what models can do; I'm interested in how you structure the data, workflows, and feedback loops around them to create systems that actually work in production.
Core Competencies
Product & Strategy
Architecture & Data
AI & Engineering
Domains
Education
University of Colorado Boulder
Leeds School of Business
B.S. Accounting