About
I’m Co-founder and CTO at Allset, shipping production AI. I’ve been writing code professionally since 2004, across several different engineering roles. Most recently a decade as Principal Engineer where I cut millions from the annual cloud bill, made production systems more reliable and scalable.
My focus is production AI architecture on AWS: voice and agentic systems on Bedrock, multi-tenant patterns and cost attribution, inference cost and model selection, cloud cost optimization. I write about it, build open-source tools for it, and also advise a small number of founders. You can find more information here.
Career
I’m building Allset, an AI-native operations platform I’ve been shipping solo using agentic dev workflows (Cursor and Claude Code). I designed and shipped the full stack — Go backend, TypeScript web frontend, React Native mobile-first product targeting iOS and Android, AWS infrastructure as code in Terraform and Terragrunt, voice AI on Bedrock at sub-300ms latency (cross-account, on-device STT, swappable LLM, OpenAI TTS), multi-tenant SaaS with SpiceDB for ReBAC, and Stripe Connect for payments. Owning everything end-to-end — architecture, deployment, customer development, go-to-market — taught me what a single experienced engineer can do in 2026 with the right tools.
A decade as Principal Engineer at a private SaaS, building and leading development of internal systems for accounting, warehousing, and marketing. I owned nine production systems supporting 190,000+ users, cut $1.5M+ from the annual AWS bill in one fiscal year through architecture optimization and infrastructure consolidation, and ran code review and DevOps for a 12-engineer team. I built the on-call rotation, monitoring, and alerting playbooks that kept incident response fast, and partnered with business units to translate requirements into shipped product across nine major launches. The role taught me what it means to own production infrastructure for years and to be on call when systems fail at 3 AM.
I led an 8-engineer team developing SaaS web and mobile apps for 72,000+ customers. We recovered $50K+ by resolving tax-calculation issues and shipped in-app customer support tooling that cut response times from days to hours.
I built six web and mobile applications from the ground up across timekeeping, fitness, sports, social, CRM, and health verticals. One was a 3D-coordinate BLE tracking system for a fitness product serving 5,000+ users; the others were production mobile apps for a range of clients.
I started as a Support Engineer for Microsoft Retail Stores and microsoftstore.com, resolving escalated customer and store-operations issues across hardware and software. I identified recurring failure patterns and partnered with engineering on fixes that reduced ticket volume — work that earned a promotion to Engineering Manager within two years, leading a 10-person team supporting the same retail systems plus the training and mentoring program for junior engineers.
I built internal web applications for an HVAC and mechanical contracting business — job tracking, scheduling, customer management, and dispatch tooling for office staff and field crews. The work introduced me to migrating paper-based workflows onto the web during the years AJAX and jQuery were changing what was possible in the browser.
My first professional engineering role. I worked on software for two-way radios, pagers, repeaters, and the surrounding telecom hardware ecosystem of the era — both web applications and Delphi (Object Pascal) desktop tools for the same business. I picked up the low-level side along the way — raw binary signals, UHF and VHF radio fundamentals, and how software wraps around real-world RF hardware.