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

Led SRE teams for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects—one of the world's top 10 websites. Billions of monthly requests across global infrastructure. Drove incident response transformation and infrastructure initiatives with organization-wide impact.

Backcountry.com

Slashed infrastructure spend from $14M to $8M annually through strategic cloud optimization. Built enterprise security program from zero—$1M budget, first-ever PCI compliance. Led 34 engineers across TechOps and InfoSec through major platform transformation.

Grindr

Scaled platform 37x—from 400K to 15M accounts. Peak concurrent users grew from 6K to 5M. First cloud/SRE hire, built the team. Architected systems handling millions of TPS across 2-3K instances. Rebuilt messaging, location services, and core backend from scratch.

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.