2024 — Present
Independent Software Developer
Self-employed
Shipped seven iOS/macOS apps to the App Store and authored three technical books on AI systems and LLM tooling while consulting on platform engineering and AI tooling.
- •Shipped Sessions-AI — on-device LLM chat with MCP server integration and multi-model support
- •Shipped ElectroSpotmatic and SpotmaticMagic — professional iOS cameras supporting RAW/ProRAW, HDR video, focus stacking, and astrophotography
- •Shipped Sell in May — on-device LSTM market analysis and regime-aware pattern matching using llama.cpp
- •Published three technical books: Building AI Coding Assistants, Inside Unsloth, and Inside OpenCode
- •Built and open-sourced Defroster — a decentralized ICE activity reporting platform deployable by any community organization
2023 — 2024
Senior Engineering Manager, Interactive Experiences
Adobe
Led 0→1 launch of AI-powered customer experiences on Adobe Edge Delivery Services, including the Creative Cloud Plan Recommender, serving millions of users worldwide.
- •Owned full program lifecycle — product stories, schedules, and quarterly roadmap presentations to VPs of Marketing and Engineering
- •Launched Creative Cloud Plan Recommender integrating ML APIs for personalized content recommendations, measurably improving conversion rates
- •Architected dual-interface authoring platform using React Flow and spreadsheet-driven JSON supporting both rapid prototypers and enterprise users
- •Delivered 95+ PageSpeed scores and sub-2-second LCP across all customer touchpoints
2020 — 2023
Senior Engineering Manager, Engineering Excellence
Adobe
Led enterprise CI/CD transformation and unified search platform across Adobe's Web Team, coordinating development, QE automation, and release engineering on the Dexter AEM platform.
- •Authored product stories, maintained program schedules, and presented quarterly roadmaps to VPs of Marketing and Engineering
- •Replaced dozens of siloed search implementations with a single React + Elasticsearch platform serving millions of customer queries
- •Directed company-wide DevOps transformation integrating CI/CD and QA automation across adobe.com
- •Led OneTrust privacy compliance program coordinating legal, engineering, and design to meet global regulatory requirements
2011 — 2020
Senior Engineering Manager, Learn and Support Platform
Adobe
Built and scaled Adobe's centralized Learn and Support Platform engineering organization, delivering 2M+ pages across 64 locales with 99.99% uptime on AEM.
- •Owned full program lifecycle — product stories, schedules, vendor budgets, and quarterly roadmap presentations to VPs of Marketing and Engineering
- •Scaled engineering org from a small team to 30+ engineers, quadrupling capacity through recruiting, mentorship, and internal promotion
- •Managed international vendor relationships and budgets across China, India, and Europe through end-to-end RFP processes
- •Reduced operational costs by millions via DITA-based architecture enabling platform redesigns without content migration
- •Implemented ML algorithms for automatic content tagging and metadata enforcement — Adobe's first intelligent content management workflow
2016 — 2017
Senior Engineering Manager, Dexter Platform
Adobe
0→1 platform launch: assembled a new team from scratch by selecting the best engineers from existing Adobe teams, built a fresh codebase, and delivered Adobe's next-generation marketing platform to production, powering the relaunch of CMO.com.
- •Owned full program lifecycle — product stories, schedules, and quarterly roadmap presentations to VP-level stakeholders
- •Built the team from zero by hand-selecting top engineers from across existing Adobe teams, establishing culture and process from day one
- •Launched a fresh platform codebase to production in January 2017, becoming Adobe's modern web architecture foundation
- •Introduced structured two-week scrum processes and an internal open-source contribution model enabling the full Adobe Web Team to contribute safely
- •Identified and promoted engineering management talent from within the new team, building a leadership pipeline from scratch
2004 — 2011
Senior 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.
- •Managed program schedules and quarterly roadmaps for all platform releases, presenting to VP stakeholders across Marketing and Engineering
- •Developed Adobe's first unified authoring and publishing platform using DITA and Structured FrameMaker with centralized X-Hive XML storage
- •Pioneered Help Viewer applications for macOS and Windows across Creative Suite 3–5 with embedded web views and C-Lucene search
- •Pioneered AI-driven metadata tagging, introducing intelligent content management ahead of market trends
2010 — 2018
Chief Technology Officer
CookedSpecially.com
Served as founder-level CTO, managing full product roadmap and end-to-end technical delivery for a restaurant management platform enabling independent restaurants to compete with major aggregators.
- •Built full-stack restaurant management ecosystem covering online ordering, Android POS, and integrated payments
- •Delivered real-time analytics, order management, and business intelligence dashboards driving operational efficiency
- •Managed product and engineering end-to-end across an 8-year run as a concurrent role alongside Adobe