Dimension: LEAD

Organizational Scale &
Global Strategy.

Directing cross-functional organizations to solve multi-billion dollar problems. My leadership is defined by technical rigor, operational efficiency, and a commitment to educating the next generation of AI leaders.

May 2026 - Jul 2026

AI Fund — product discovery to delivery

Engineer in Residence, Andrew Ng's venture studio

Owned the full loop across two major pivots: customer discovery, ICP selection, contextual inquiry and Mom Test interviews, with demand validated before any build was scaled.
PostHog KPI instrumentation to verify shipped features actually moved behavior, rather than assuming they did.
Made the stop call on evidence when the technical signal was strong but commercial urgency was absent — a disciplined kill with minimal sunk cost.
Nine lessons carried forward on finding real pain, defensibility, and why a team's evals separate good from great — mentored by Andrew Ng, Eli Chen, Andy Ku, Jill Shih and Sandeep Gupta.

2026 - Present

Engineering governance at scale — the constitution layer

Architect

Codified engineering principles as an enforceable governance layer shared across every agent in the system, rather than as documentation nobody reads.
Structural gates for mechanically-checkable violations, semantic gates for those needing judgment — matching the gate type to the violation class.
Cross-family review as an independent-verification gate: an author's blind spots survive their own review by construction, so review requires a different model family.
Cost governance through model right-sizing by task class, keeping the most expensive reasoning on judgment work only.

2019 - 2025

Senior SWE Manager (Google)

Global Platform Delivery

Managed 16+ global engineers across 6 complex tracks, aligning cross-functional teams to execute a ~$40B capital spend portfolio.
Owned P&L for massive corporate vendor contracts, running build-vs-buy analyses to mitigate risk.
Instituted a rigorous 'no-blame postmortem' engineering culture to maximize operational reliability and system uptime.

2009 - 2013

Trellis Agile Organization Scaling

Manager, Solutions Architecture

Drove execution as the sole architectural leader for the organization, directly managing 6 senior architects.
Indirectly influenced and mentored over 50 engineers operating in Agile pods.
Redesigned the entire workflow pipeline architecture to compress processing cycle times by over 99% (from 1 week to under 60 seconds).

2013 - 2014

21CT Product Delivery (Healthcare/Defense Analytics)

Director of Product & Engineering

Steered a $4M advanced graph-analytics platform through a highly regulated HIPAA-compliant ecosystem (Texas HHS/OIG).
Actively managed a 15-person core engineering string, orchestrating vendor evaluations, deployment, and end-user training.
Slashed government investigation cycle times by 96% (2 years to 90 days), winning the 'Be the Change' award.

2019 - 2024

UC Berkeley Executive Education Instructor

Instructor, AI & Emerging Technologies

Taught AI, Machine Learning, and enterprise-scale tech strategies to 1,500+ Fortune 500 executives and global leaders.
Guided leadership on identifying critical boundaries for 'Responsible AI' and establishing ethical enterprise governance.

2000 - 2009

Early career — Quidnunc, IONA Technologies, Ajilon

Engineer, then Principal and Senior Principal Consultant

Quidnunc (2000, San Francisco) — early engineering role.
IONA Technologies, later acquired by Progress Software (2000-2002, Austin) — distributed systems and enterprise software across financial and technology environments.
Ajilon as Principal and Senior Principal Consultant (2002-2009) — led architecture across 15+ enterprise programs.
Delivered SOA architecture reducing integration complexity by approximately 35%.
Consulting engagements included Trellis / Texas Guaranteed, which led directly to being hired there as Manager, Solutions Architecture in 2009.

Strategic Framework