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Impossible FuturesFounder
Jan. 2023San Francisco, California, United StatesLaunched a CIO-as-a-Service firm to help early-stage AI companies build scalable, cost-effective infrastructure and IT operations. My work empowers these companies to overcome technical challenges with GPU infrastructure, secure funding, capture revenue, and achieve compliance faster than by building in-house teams. Key Engagements: Together.ai, Sonant AI, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital
52 ProductionsCo-Founder & Advisor
May. 2022San Francisco Bay AreaI’ve teamed up with the world’s greatest card mechanic to create an AI platform, game studio, and publisher to bring social conversational gaming to all. - Co-founded and advise 52 Productions, pioneering social conversational gaming with an AI platform and game studio.
- Spearheaded strategic partnerships, fundraising, and business development initiatives, pitching to investors and partners to spur growth.
AstraDirector of Engineering
Sep. 2021 - May. 2023San Francisco Bay AreaLed six engineering teams to support 4 orbital missions that successfully placed 22 satellites into orbit. Had up to 20 direct reports. Managed a multi million dollar budget, including headcount planning, operational expenses, and capital expenses. Adapted team structures: matrixed, flat, and functional—to align with evolving business needs in a fast-paced aerospace environment. Directly Responsible Individual (DRI): Accountable for the following mission-critical programs: - Rocket Support Cart & Launch Site Server Module: Terrestrial data systems for secure, real-time launch operations.
- Custom Streaming Video System: Real time video infrastructure with ~30 cameras, Wowza, OBS, RTSP, Fiber links, custom firmware.
- Data Centers: On Prem servers, network appliances, and specialized proprietary appliances. - Gov Cloud Infra: AWS, Azure GCC High cloud deployments critical for all facets of operation.
- GPU Infra: High performance Computing Nvidia GPU clusters to power mission simulations. My Teams: DevOps
TechOps
Rocket Support Cart
Video Software & Infrastructure
Launch Site Server Module
Constellation Software
MedalHead of Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Oct. 2017 - Jun. 2019San FranciscoOffered the CTO role, I chose to remain at Samsung to fulfill my vesting schedule while contributing to Medal in a fractional capacity, driving critical infrastructure initiatives to solve patient data challenges. Platform Architect: Designed and implemented a secure, cloud-native platform integrating NLP, FHIR, Apache CTAKES, and web services, ensuring scalable, fast, and compliant healthcare data processing.
Innovative EC2 Deployment: Created a “stem cell” EC2 model using ansible-pull, custom tagging, and role-based controls, enhancing security, observability, and cost management.
High-Performing Team Builder: Conducted over 100 interviews to assemble a top-tier Infrastructure team and set standards for DevOps and Platform engineering processes.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Led 1:1s with engineers and product managers, resolving key process challenges and aligning teams across Medal’s mission-critical initiatives.
Samsung ElectronicsSenior Staff Research Engineer
Apr. 2017 - Sep. 2021San JoseAt Viv (acquired by Samsung), I contributed to a culture of quality and platform engineering excellence, ensuring the “magic of AI” delivered a fast and delightful experience to customers everywhere. Hired to scale Viv’s technology platform from a single-cluster demo to a global production cloud-native system, expanding from 1 cluster to over 5,000 machines across multiple regions, serving 200 million devices worldwide. Global Service Mesh: Designed and implemented a unique service mesh to ensure fast, secure, and seamless AI experiences for users everywhere, with zero downtime deployments that reduce deployment time from days to minutes. Custom Deployment Tooling: Developed proprietary tools that exceeded standard cluster scheduling capabilities, solving complex challenges in deploying backend AI services, web services, developer tools, a marketplace, and Bixby client applications. Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Led automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives, enabling rapid, reliable, and repeatable deployments across multi-cloud environments. ~300,000 lines of Terraform and Ansible. International Training & Expansion: Trained and supported 12 operators across 4 countries (South Korea, Germany, India, and more), improving departmental efficiency by 300% through streamlined deployment strategies and codebase expertise.
AdobeSenior DevOps Engineer
Jul. 2015 - Mar. 2017San Francisco Bay AreaAs an ambitious engineer at a big company, it was my role to build and prototype new technology to get Adobe.com off bare metal and into the cloud. Containers were an emerging technology, and the problem of orchestration was still waiting for a definitive solution. I did pilot projects using technologies including Spinnaker, Swarm, and Kubernetes. I contributed to building Adobe.com's first golden image factory, transitive routing (before transit gateways existed in AWS), and AWS account architecture. I later worked on migrating Fotolia from Paris data centers into the Adobe cloud after the $800MM acquisition.
ContextMedia, Inc.Senior DevOps Engineer
May. 2014 - Jul. 2015Chicago, ILContextMedia is Chicago's most engaging and explosive high growth company. Their mission is to improve outcomes of patients with chronic diseases by engaging them with educational content delivered via android tablets, wallboards, and media players while they wait to be seen by their medical provider. I was their 2nd engineering hire. The company was 64 people, and had only a few thousand deployed devices. Within 15 months time the company grew to over 300 people and tens of thousands of devices in the field. Explosive growth meant solving many technical challenges in device management, deployment to the field, and rapid development of new products while addressing HIPAA regulatory concerns. I built and maintained applications in Ruby on Rails (SMS app, and custom MDM Console). I worked closely with QA and the product developers both locally and offshore to build a solid continuous delivery pipeline while bringing DevOps culture to the teams in the process. Tools used include: Jenkins, Chef, Amazon AWS (hybrid cloud architecture), Docker, Hashicorp Packer, Golang Most importantly: I learned about the right way to 3x a company as fast as possible while maintaining a world class culture, exceptional team engagement, and expanding array of products. Note to Chicagoland engineers: If the thrill of living on a fault line in a tsunami zone is not your jam, then from Boston to Seattle, there is no better place to work than ContextMedia.
Pauliwerks LLCCofounder
Jan. 2011 - Jul. 2015I started this digital talent boutique to leverage synergies in the information technology, web, and digital media spaces while conferring maximum value to clients with our vertically integrated approach to projects. Clients include an international airport, a Healthcare management company, a legal technology company, and web development and creative firms. In a nutshell, I find business solutions to technical problems.
Sussex Fire DepartmentFirefighter/EMT
Jan. 2010 - May. 2014We restart your heart, tame your flame, and then we go to work.
Lannon Fire DepartmentFirefighter/EMT
Jan. 2008 - Jan. 2012
OnYourMark, LLCSystem Administrator
Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2009Made a Linux environment run like a Roadster and turn on a dime to host 200+ domains running every web app you can think of on a budget that makes a Kiva loan look like winning the lottery.
iStream Financial ServicesSystem Analyst
Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2007Helped grow the IT infrastructure of this fast paced startup from consumer grade PCs and live production servers in the conference room to a SAS70 certified mature financial services company. Did everything from running miles of Ethernet cable to helping secure the data that flowed over it. Supported all facets of a Linux/Windows environment for 50 employees at 2 branches and a data center.
Behavioral Therapy Research LabResearch Consultant
Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2004Designed and coded software to carry out behavioral experiments with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as trichotillomania and chronic skin picking.
Ligo Scientific CollaborationParallel Computation SysAdmin
Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2004Worked with a team of scientists who, in 2016, made history by observing gravitational waves for the first time. Kept a 300-node Red Hat Beowulf cluster in top condition to crunch numbers from LIGO Observatories.
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