Palo Alto, California
Builder who bridges deep tech and business to ship real systems
Forward-deployed engineer and co-founder applying AI to hard enterprise problems in healthcare and life sciences.
About
22 years building enterprise software
I have spent my career at the intersection of engineering, consulting, product, and go-to-market. Currently a founding member at 8090.ai, where we are building an AI-powered Software Factory that delivers custom enterprise software from PRD to production in 3-6 months.
Before 8090, I led GTM for Modern Apps, Databases, and Gemini AI at Google Cloud. Before that, I was a founding member of the application modernization practice at Pivotal, scaling it from $0 to $250M ARR. I started my career at IBM, where I spent 11 years in distributed systems engineering and earned 19 patents.
My focus today: applying AI to hard problems in healthcare and life sciences, where automation can save lives and reduce costs at the same time.
Chapters
The arc of a career
IBM
Advisory Software Engineer
Built distributed systems at scale. Architected WebSphere caching infrastructure serving Fortune 100 enterprises. 19 patents in distributed systems and performance optimization.
Pivotal
Principal Engineer & Practice Lead
Founding member scaling the application modernization practice from $0 to $250M ARR in 3 years. Led 50+ solution architects across training, developer education, and customer delivery.
Google Cloud
GTM Leader: Apps, Databases & Gemini
Directed Modern Apps & Databases GTM generating >$250M revenue. Built and led team of 10 senior specialists. Early Gemini AI GTM strategy growing AI/ML business 10x.
8090
Founding Member & AI Solutions Lead
Building enterprise Software Factory using AI to automate SDLC. Delivering PRD-to-production in 3-6 months. $500K+ annual subscriptions across 8+ healthcare and life sciences projects.
How I work
High agency, high standards
Bias for action
Ships fast without breaking things. Founding member mentality.
Technical + Business bridge
19 patents AND $250M+ revenue. Can speak to CTOs as peer AND close deals.
Hands-on builder
Still writes code, builds production systems, not just slides.
Customer-obsessed
Long-term relationships, measurable ROI, 95%+ retention.
"Automation without responsibility isn't progress."
— My operating principle for AI work
Selected work
19 patents in enterprise systems
Client side request throttling for backend systems
US-8200812-B2
Dynamic structural management of distributed caching
US-10042772-B2
VM monitoring and deadlock resolution
US-9003239-B2
Analysis of source code changes
US-9262134-B2
Dual timeout caching
US-8296523-B2
Plus 14 additional patents in distributed caching, VM monitoring, code analysis, and performance optimization.
Writing & speaking
Sharing what I learn
Conference speaking
- SpringOne Platform(Conference)
- JavaOne(Conference)
- IBM Impact(Conference)
- No Fluff Just Stuff(Tour)
- ÜberConf(Conference)
Blogs
50+ posts on cloud, AI, and enterprise modernization.
Book
Pragmatic Microservices — A practical guide to building microservices at scale.
Contact
Let's build something
I'm always interested in hard problems at the intersection of AI and enterprise software.