Principal Consultant

Founded in 2010. Open to fractional and 1099 contract work in AI and engineering.

Fractional AI builder for startups and product teams. I work with founders from the first idea: deciding what to build, designing the architecture, and shipping the first version.

• –Build agents, voice and vision pipelines, MCP integrations, and consent steps that keep a person in the loop, with local models when the cloud is the wrong fit.
• –GiveCampus: co-built GC Events (Rails, Hotwire, Tailwind, Sidekiq, Stripe, Heroku).
• –Hungry: rebuilt the core Rails API to handle expansion and heavier traffic.
• –ISEP Study Abroad: led three engineers through a major CMS redesign.
• –fTLD Registry Services (2017–2025): built the first domain-monitoring system for .Bank and .Insurance.
• –PrePlanLive (2018): built a first-responder incident MVP on my own (Twilio, Matterport).
• –BaseRent: built a rental management MVP with credit and background-check integrations.

Senior Software Engineer→VP of Engineering→VP of Product

Joined at seed as part of the founding team and stayed through Series B, first as VP of Engineering and then as VP of Product.

• –Architected and built real-time identity verification used by the VA, the DoD, and other federal and state programs.
• –Led engineering and later product, including hiring and mentoring, while still writing Rails and JavaScript.
• –Earned a U.S. patent for real-time online identity verification.
• –The mission was veterans, and it stayed that way.

Senior Software Engineer

• –Built web analysis tools for wireless threat detection and IED countermeasures.
• –Led ProConIt, a social evaluation platform (Rails, Postgres, jQuery).

Software Engineer

• –Built DoD software for vendor testing and certification in full-stack Rails, and co-organized an internal Rails study group.

Software Engineer

• –Worked on a federal financial management system used across agencies (C++, .NET, Oracle, WebLogic).