2024 — Present
AI Systems Author & Developer
Independent
Full-time, hands-on work on LLMs, agentic systems, and on-device AI, writing technical books on LLM internals and shipping production AI apps that run models on local hardware.
- •Authored five technical books on AI systems: Inside a Sandbox: nsjail and the Thin Boundary; Inside the Harness: How Coding Agents Learn, and What They Cost; Inside the Inference Engine (llama.cpp): The Serving Layer; Inside Unsloth: How the Fastest LLM Fine-Tuning Library Works; and Inside OpenCode: How an AI Coding Agent Works
- •Authored Inside DITA: Topic-Based Authoring Without the Ceremony, a standalone book on the authoring approach behind the DITA platforms I built at Adobe
- •Shipped Sessions-AI — on-device LLM chat with MCP server integration and multi-model support
- •Shipped Sell in May — an LSTM market model trained and run on-device in custom Swift code, with regime-aware pattern matching and a choice of small Qwen models, run locally through llama.cpp, for open-ended financial questions
- •Shipped ElectroSpotmatic and SpotmaticMagic — professional iOS image capture and processing apps supporting RAW/ProRAW, HDR video, and astrophotography
2023 — 2024
Senior Engineering Manager, Interactive Experiences
Adobe
Led work at the intersection of ML-driven personalization and high-performance web infrastructure, including the 0→1 launch of AI-powered customer experiences on Adobe Edge Delivery Services, with a team of 6 direct reports and 4 dotted-line AEM architects.
- •Launched the Creative Cloud Plan Recommender, integrating ML APIs for personalized plan recommendations and lifting conversion from the Creative Cloud home page by 60%
- •Owned the full program lifecycle, from product stories and schedules to quarterly roadmap presentations to the VPs of Marketing and Engineering
- •Architected a dual-interface authoring platform using React Flow and spreadsheet-driven JSON, serving both rapid prototypers and enterprise users
- •Delivered 95+ PageSpeed scores and sub-2-second LCP across customer touchpoints with a lean React framework
2020 — 2023
Senior Engineering Manager, Engineering Excellence
Adobe
Ran the Center of Excellence for Adobe's Web Team, where a 6-person core team plus 4 dotted-line AEM architects set the shared infrastructure, CI/CD practices, and governance the wider organization built on.
- •Replaced dozens of siloed search implementations with a single governed React + Elasticsearch platform serving millions of customer queries
- •Directed the Web Team's DevOps transformation, integrating CI/CD and QA automation across adobe.com
- •Led the OneTrust privacy compliance program, coordinating legal, engineering, and design to meet global regulatory requirements
- •Wrote product stories and presented quarterly strategic roadmaps to VP-level stakeholders, tying engineering excellence to business goals
2011 — 2020
Senior Engineering Manager, Learn and Support Platform
Adobe
Scaled a mission-critical AEM platform and its engineering organization from the ground up, delivering 2M+ pages across 64 locales with 99.99% uptime.
- •Grew the engineering org from a small pod to 30+ engineers, quadrupling capacity through recruiting, mentorship, and promoting engineers into management
- •Implemented Adobe's first intelligent content management workflow, using ML for automatic content tagging and metadata enforcement
- •Saved millions in operational costs with a DITA-based architecture that allowed platform redesigns without content migration
- •Managed multi-million-dollar international vendor relationships and budgets across China, India, and Europe through end-to-end RFP processes
2016 — 2017
Senior Engineering Manager, Dexter Platform
Adobe
Led the 0→1 launch of Adobe's next-generation marketing platform, run concurrently with Learn and Support, assembling a team from scratch to build the foundation for the relaunch of CMO.com.
- •Built the team from zero by hand-selecting engineers from across the organization and setting a high-velocity culture from day one
- •Launched a new platform codebase to production in January 2017, creating the modern web architecture foundation for the team
- •Introduced two-week scrum and an internal open-source contribution model that let the full Adobe Web Team contribute features under core-team oversight
- •Identified and promoted engineering management talent from within, building a lasting leadership pipeline
2004 — 2011
Engineering Manager, Community Help and Learning Platform
Adobe
Created Adobe's first unified DITA-based authoring and publishing platform, delivering nearly 1M pages across 32 locales with 99.99% uptime.
- •Developed a unified authoring and publishing platform using DITA and Structured FrameMaker with centralized X-Hive XML storage
- •Built Help Viewer applications for macOS and Windows across Creative Suite 3–5, with embedded web views and C-Lucene search
- •Introduced early ML-driven metadata tagging for intelligent content management
- •Managed program schedules and quarterly roadmaps, presenting progress to VP stakeholders across Marketing and Engineering
2010 — 2018
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
CookedSpecially.com
Founded and ran, concurrently with my Adobe role, a restaurant management platform that let independent restaurants compete with major aggregators, owning the product roadmap and end-to-end technical delivery.
- •Built a full-stack restaurant management system covering online ordering, Android POS, and integrated payments
- •Delivered real-time analytics, order management, and business intelligence dashboards for restaurant operators
- •Managed product and engineering end to end across an 8-year run, with a remote development team in India