2016 – 2023 · Herbalife Nutrition
Built a global SRE organization from 4 to 40+
Senior Manager, DevOps & SRE
Scaled engineering across Los Angeles, Winston-Salem, Guadalajara, Kuala Lumpur, Krakow, and
Bengaluru. Stood up five platform teams on Team Topologies: Kubernetes, Observability, Messaging,
API Management, and Value Stream Delivery. The platform served 90+ markets inside a 350-person
engineering org.
$5B+ revenue platform · 90%+ retention over six years
KubernetesSplunkDynatrace Team TopologiesMulti-cloudKafkaApigee
99.95%uptime
3M+orders per month
82%fewer Sev1 incidents
15%infrastructure cost cut
2026 – Present · Co-Founder & CTO
Tengo
Wealth-management platform, New York
Software that does in minutes what a room of specialists does by hand in spreadsheets: fitting the
instrument that has protected fortunes for generations to each client it is built for. Building the
platform and the agentic automation behind it, alongside a CEO from Apple Retail and a COO from FIS.
tengolife.com
AI agentsAutomationTypeScriptPython
2026 – Present · Co-Founder & CTO
BlockCopy
Rebuilding a pioneering social-trading platform for the AI era.
BlockCopy is the modern successor to DittoTrade, the pioneering copy-trading platform originally built
and operated from 2009–2015. I'm partnering with original founders Joe and Avi Fox to bring that
technology, IP, and years of real-world trading experience forward as a modern, AI-native platform.
Followers don't copy a lead trader's trade after the fact.
They join the same block and fill at the same price in the same moment,
with zero slippage, and can detach mid-fill while the block resizes around them.
Equities and options first, with additional asset classes on the roadmap.
As Co-Founder & CTO, I rebuilt the platform from its original Java
codebase using AI agents, including the web platform, backend, mobile
app, and automated testing infrastructure. I load-test it nightly against blocks of up to 1,000 followers.
Pre-launch · gated preview
Next.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLAlpacaAI agents
2024 – Present · Founder & CTO
MyMoneyCoach.ai
Solo build, live in the App Store
Full-stack AI coaching platform. LLM integration, retrieval over a vector database, semantic memory that
persists across sessions, and a multi-agent architecture on MCP. Designed, built, and shipped alone.
Live in the App Store
and
mymoneycoach.ai
React NativeRAGMCP
Neo4jSupabase
2023 – 2026 · Fractional CTO
Gondola InsurTech
AI-driven insurance strategy platform
Built the complete technical foundation: document extraction service, insurance comparison app, internal
portals, and visualization tools. AI document processing took quote analysis from hours to minutes.
850+ GitHub contributions
PythonAzureAWS TextractLLM APIs
2011 – 2016 · Herbalife
iChange & Weight Loss Challenge
Manager, Software Development
A two-sided wellness coaching platform where distributors coached members: nutrition tracking, tasks,
progress, groups, and social accountability. Grew the team from 4 to 25 across three time zones and
rewrote the stack from PHP to Ruby with native iOS and Android apps. Distributors on iChange saw better
retention, recruiting, and sales than those off it. The companion Weight Loss Challenge tracked 1M+
pounds across 12,000+ challenges and ran nine years with no dedicated team.
+7% retention · +4% recruiting · +6% sales
RubyMongoDBNeo4j
iOSAndroidHeroku
2000 – 2002 · Founding CTO
WithoutABox
Acquired by Amazon / IMDb in 2008
The first online film-festival submission platform, built from scratch. 54 top festivals including
Sundance, 10,000 filmmakers onboarded in ten months, delivered at roughly half of an $800K budget. The
platform I shipped in 2002 was still running when Amazon bought the company.
Ran six years after I left
LinuxPHPOracleArchitecture
1999 – 2000 · Director of Web & Community
Stan Lee Media
Building digital entertainment and fan communities with Stan Lee
Led web and community initiatives at Stan Lee Media, working with Stan Lee and
the team building original entertainment for an online audience during the first
wave of web-native media. Focused on the web experience, audience engagement,
and the communities forming around new characters and digital properties.
Worked directly with Stan Lee at the intersection of entertainment, community, and the early web
Web
Community
Entertainment
Digital media
1993 – 1999 · Founder & CTO
RockWeb Interactive
Music and community at the dawn of the commercial web
Started rock.net as an Internet music community in 1993, before the commercial
web took off, and relaunched it as RockWeb Interactive in 1994. Built official
web experiences for 50+ major-label artists, along with Rock the Vote's NetVote
campaign and the 1998 Webby Awards site and webcast.
PC Computing Top 101 Website · MSN Best Web Chat · merged with MediaCast to form The Who and How Entertainment Network
Founder
Web
Music
Community
Digital media
Dec 1995 – 1999 · Netscape
Netscape DevEdge
Developer Support Engineer · Contractor → Employee #937
Joined Netscape as a contractor in December 1995 and later became employee #937. One of the first five people
to learn JavaScript from Brendan Eich. Advised CNET, HotWired, ABC, Disney, CNNfn, and CBS SportsLine on
building for the web. Managed a team of eight, remote from Los Angeles, in 1997, when remote work was still
called telecommuting.
Thirty years of continuous JavaScript, from its invention
JavaScript
DevEdge
Developer Relations
Remote-first
#937Netscape employee
5first to learn JavaScript
8engineers managed
1997working remote
