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I'm an engineer and engineering leader in New York. My work has moved from distributed systems and production machine learning to data platforms, security, and infrastructure for AI-native software.
Experience
Sep 2025–present
Norm Ai / Norm Law LLP
Technical Director, Platform Engineering
I lead platform engineering for legal and compliance agents, with responsibility for developer infrastructure, reliability, and enterprise readiness. I hired and lead the SRE and cloud infrastructure team supporting banks and asset managers.
May 2022–Jul 2025
Carta
Engineering Manager, AI Products, Data Ecosystem & API Platform
I led engineering for external APIs and strategic partnerships, launched a customer data warehouse on Snowflake, and championed early LLM work in document extraction and an agentic chat-with-data prototype with interactive charts. The work spanned API, data, documentation, and application performance teams across four cities.
May 2016–2022
Simon Data
Senior Engineer → Staff Security Engineer → Engineering Manager
I designed the schema and metadata layer for the ETL system and led a team building streaming event processing on Flink. My work also covered enterprise authentication and authorization, security tooling, and SOC 2 and GDPR readiness. I hired and managed engineers across the US and Latin America.
Jun 2012–Feb 2016
Intent Media
ML Engineer / Data Engineer
I ran the production machine learning platform behind ads on large travel sites, from distributed model training on Hadoop and Spark through verification and deployment. I also led work using DynamoDB to connect visitor profiles across devices.
Earlier software work included First Trust Portfolios in Wheaton, Illinois (2010–2011), and telecom development in Rochester, New York.
Education
2012
Cornell University
M.Eng., Computer Science
Information retrieval, distributed systems, AI, and natural language processing. My capstone was Hiss, a gossip-based messaging framework for distributed Python applications.
2010
Wheaton College
B.S., Computer Science · magna cum laude
Award for Excellence in Computer Science, first in class. Elective studies in writing, public speaking, and economics.
Service
2016–present
Cornell Tech
Crit advisor, Startup Studio
2017–present
MESA Charter High School, Brooklyn
Secretary, Board of Trustees; Finance Committee
2013–2014
Volunteer teaching
Led a team teaching introductory game programming with Scratch and Racket to New York City high school students.