I'M LEO, TECHNICAL LEADER & BUILDER

AI ENABLEMENT • OBSERVABILITY • SECURITY

Founder, fractional CTO, and hands-on technologist with 25+ years building and scaling systems that serve millions. I partner with teams to ship products, architect infrastructure, and turn complex ideas into working software.

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I help ambitious teams build what's next

Early-stage, mid-scale, or stuck — I help you move forward.

25+

Years of experience

Billions

Users served

Startup to Enterprise

Full range

Current Focus

Calliope AI

A secure, AI-powered development workbench for teams that value engineering rigor. Multiple AI models, notebooks, code generation, RAG-powered data access, and SQL query generation. Built for professionals who keep humans in the loop.

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Veracall

AI-powered communication and scheduling assistant. Smart call management, unified messaging, spam blocking, and voice-activated scheduling. For solo founders to remote teams who need control over their time.

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Boilerworks

Production-ready templates and frameworks for shipping faster. Built by CONFLICT for teams who want to skip the boilerplate and get to building.

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CONFLICT

A full-service engineering shop for teams that need to ship. Cloud operations, backend systems, mobile apps, AI/ML, and infrastructure for healthcare, ecommerce, and compliance-heavy industries. We deliver where it counts.

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Background

25+ years leading teams, building products, and architecting systems at scale. From founding startups to managing engineering orgs, I operate across the full stack. AWS Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer.

I build, I lead, I ship.

AI Enablement

Building production AI systems and tools. RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, AI-assisted development. Helping teams adopt AI with engineering rigor.

Observability & AIOps

Led Observability SRE at Wikimedia. Built monitoring and incident management practices at Backcountry and Grindr. AIOps for intelligent alerting and automation.

Cloud & Platform

AWS, GCP, Azure since 2006. Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer. AWS and Google Partner. Kubernetes, Terraform, multi-region deployments.

Security & Compliance

InfoSec leadership, PCI compliance, vulnerability management. Built security organizations and led companies to first-time compliance.

Selected Work

Wikimedia Foundation - Global Infrastructure

Led SRE teams supporting Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects serving billions of requests. Drove incident response initiatives and infrastructure improvements with organization-wide impact.

Backcountry.com - Cloud Migration & Security

Cut infrastructure budget from $14M to $8M over 5 years through cost optimization. Built security program from scratch with $1M budget. Led company to first-ever PCI compliance. Managed 34 engineers across TechOps and InfoSec.

Grindr - Scalable Backend Systems

Scaled platform from 400K to 15M accounts, 6K to 5M peak active users. Ran 2-3K instances serving millions of transactions per second. First SRE/Cloud engineer, built team of 4. Rebuilt messaging, location APIs, and core backend.

Recent Experience

Founder, Calliope AI

Building secure AI development tools for teams that value engineering rigor. Multi-model access, notebooks, RAG-powered data queries, and AI-enabled workflows for professionals.

Managing Director, CONFLICT

Leading a distributed engineering team focused on AI enablement, cloud operations, observability, and security. Full-service delivery for healthcare, ecommerce, and enterprise clients.

SRE Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

Led Observability and Infrastructure Foundations SRE teams supporting Wikipedia. Drove incident response, AIOps initiatives, and large-scale platform reliability improvements.