I'm an engineering leader who has scaled real teams and real platforms, now working at the front edge of how AI changes the way engineering teams build. Discipline over hype.
I've spent 25 years building software, the last decade at Microsoft, where I grew from senior engineer to Principal Group Engineering Manager. What I care about, and what I'm good at, is building product close to the people it serves and leading the cross-functional teams that ship it.
For the past year I've gone hands-on into AI for engineering: multi-agent orchestration, guardrails that catch an agent cutting corners, and the unglamorous plumbing that lets agents do real work safely. I'm the practitioner who's genuinely excited about what AI can do, and also the one asking whether the output is actually correct.
I do that work in the open at empoweringyou.ai (opens in a new tab). Less talking about AI, more showing it.
Away from work: four kids, my wife, a mountain bike I built from the frame up with its wheels laced by hand, cabinetry and carpentry when I want to make something real, and the trails around Snoqualmie.
Principal Group Engineering Manager
Leads the commerce platform behind how Microsoft sells: a ~50-engineer organization across five teams, led through managers, owning the system of record for product, offer, and pricing across public, government, and sovereign clouds. 100K+ requests/sec on 150K+ cores, carrying billions in transactions.
Now proving AI for engineering in the open at empoweringyou.ai (opens in a new tab).
Ran engineering and business development for a 100+ person consultancy; won and delivered ~$2M in new client business.
Owned the point-of-sale platform in Costco cellular kiosks across 450+ US warehouses; its fraud controls prevented ~$1.5M in the first year.
Enhanced the Pension Navigator that let pension holders model their own retirement.
Built the radiological-surveillance and lab-information systems behind the cleanup.
Built and ran two small ventures: custom software and industrial products for radiological remediation.
Twenty-five years across these organizations.