THE WHY MAN • FOUNDER, EXPONENTIALOS • EX-GOOGLE • BERKELEY HAAS EMBA 2026

I DON'T JUST BUILD AI PRODUCTS.
I BUILD THE SYSTEMS THAT BUILD THEM.

The “why” is curiosity — never challenge. It's how I get to root cause.

Founder, Exponential OS — a multi-agent harness with a constitution, agentic memory, model routing and composable skills. 25+ years in engineering. 6 years at Google across a ~$40B portfolio, $500M+ ROI. Most recently Engineer in Residence at AI Fund, Andrew Ng's venture studio.

THE CURIOUS WHY METHOD

Why is reliability a byproduct of profound curiosity?

As an Engineering Leader, I have found that the most complex technical challenges—from managing $40B portfolios at Google to compressing supply chain recall from months to seconds—are solved by identifying the core “Why.”

To be clear: this is a strictly curious “Why”. It is never about challenging authority or arrogance. It is a relentless drive to drill down to the fundamental root cause and fix the broken system.

The method is to build the harness before the product: governance that enforces engineering invariants as gates, memory that carries context across sessions, and evals fixed before any code is written. A change ships only if it beats baseline. That is how I ship outcomes rather than features.

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Question the baseline before you scale.

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Design for reliability at every failure mode.

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Outcome-driven engineering, not just feature delivery.

BUILD

Architecting reliability-first AI systems and evaluation-driven agent platforms. ex-Google engineering leader.

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INVENT

Founder, ExponentialOS. Patent filed (exponential OS architecture). 10x Hackathon Champion. Compressing 6-month cycles to 6 seconds.

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LEAD

Berkeley Haas EMBA 2026. UC Berkeley Faculty — 1,500+ Fortune 500 executives taught AI systems. Leading 50+ engineers at scale. $40B Google portfolio.

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Architectural Integrity • Global Operations • AI Governance