My north star.
To build outstanding engineering cultures, I believe in fostering inclusive, high-performing engineering and product teams by merging scalability, collaboration, and innovation with a strong emphasis on psychological safety.
I’ve prioritized building great teams that deliver high-quality, scalable, and efficient technology solutions while ensuring an environment where individuals feel valued, empowered, and able to contribute their best work. My leadership philosophy centers on mentorship, open communication, and structured processes that balance speed, quality, and innovation.
All of this results in successful product launches, operational excellence, and business growth (while reducing bloat and improving delivery speed).
How I’ve done it.
As CTO at Eskalera, a leading enterprise (B2B2C) SaaS provider, I led a diverse multi-region team of engineers, QA, and cloud operators. During my time there, we doubled the size of the team, built workflows/processes to decrease mental load, led machine learning, AI, data science and analytics efforts, implemented scalable architecture, launched the UX/UI, QA and data engineering teams, and migrated our large content library to a headless CMS. I was a key leader in a SOC2 certification (and re-certification, twice), and furthered an agile culture by right-sizing scrum teams, introducing guilds, chapters and practices and evangelizing better communication.
At IFS Core (now Operix), I led a distributed product and engineering team with members in Boston, Peru, India, Japan, Ireland composed of 50+ engineers, product managers, QA members and UX/UI. I stood-up the QA and UX practices and guided a maturation of a collaborative team culture.
I have significant experience in highly regulated industries (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH, GDPR, CCPA). My technical stack is broad (and I’m hands-on when and where it needs to happen), but as importantly, I encourage scalability, collaboration, mentoring, and open communication within and across teams.
Reach out!
I’m open to full-time and fractional roles in startup and scale-up ventures. If you’re interested in chatting, you can contact me here.
