Engineering leader, consultant, and a builder who never put the keyboard down. Twenty-five-plus years of turning messy mandates into working systems. These days that means agentic AI: from the orchestration layer to the review pipeline that keeps main green.
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I'm a systems thinker with a builder's temperament. When something keeps breaking, I go looking for the structure that keeps recreating it: the ownership gap, the missing feedback loop, the assumption nobody ever tested.
I've run distributed engineering organizations, shaped consulting engagements from discovery through statement of work, led machine-learning product work at Amazon, and I still ship code most days. The side projects aren't hobbies. They're how I keep my hands current and test ideas against problems I actually have.
My current thesis on AI: capable systems need a clear what, boundaries, tools, and verification, more than a human dictating every how. That isn't giving up control. It's moving control into the loop, the acceptance criteria, the observer, and the recovery path.
Orchestration for AI coding agents. Isolated git worktrees per issue, persistent project context, live diffs, mid-task steering, model hot-swapping, specialist review, automated tests, browser UAT, quality gates, and merge trains that keep main green. Overdeck builds Overdeck.
An AI productivity platform for busy people and families. Tasks, calendar, automatic scheduling, habits, household lists, focus timers, long-term memory, and Kaia, an assistant that actually remembers you. Web, iOS, and Android. Built and operated end to end.
The Infinite Word War. A persistent multiplayer word-strategy game, and a live test bed for agent-driven product development. Every feature goes through the same plan, build, review, and merge loop I use for real work. Come lose a round.
Led a distributed engineering organization of 26 across POS integration, core platform, and self-service products. Reorganized siloed component teams into cross-disciplinary teams with real outcome ownership. Set modernization roadmaps on Java, Spring, Kubernetes, and Kafka. Guided architecture across a POS estate of more than 40 vendors. Started AI Office Hours for roughly 170 engineers and taught practical context management and AI-assisted code analysis.
Client discovery, technical assessment, solution shaping, and statements of work. Logistics data-platform modernization, telecom e-commerce, retail customer-data platforms, and recovering engagements that had gone sideways as an embedded technical product owner.
Machine-learning programs in Catalog focused on classification quality and catching suppliers gaming the system. Built the top-offender detection proof of concept myself in Spring Boot and AWS, then coordinated science, engineering, operations, and policy to make it real.
Booking-platform modernization away from C++ dependencies toward Java. An internal CI/CD platform spanning thousands of services. AWS migration, Node and Lambda services, and a browser extension for experiment and operational visibility.
Fourteen engineers building cross-carrier, cross-device mobile services delivering content to millions of devices. Still hands-on in Spring and Android while running carrier programs.
A $14M MetroPCS.com modernization across 12 sprint teams onto AWS. Engineering and delivery for Clear.com and wholesale carrier APIs. Executive scorecards and service-oriented proofs of concept for Microsoft. Mobile-media platforms for the major carriers.
City online-payment systems, advertising workflows, legal-services software, public learning centers for kids, and industrial monitoring and visualization. Lots of hats, most of them at once.
I own more guitars than a person needs, and there's a music-production chapter I'll tell you about in person. Live music with good food and an actual seat is the ideal evening.
Beef chili built for depth, not just heat. Better on day two.
Dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu, an electronics bench, a long history with computers and games going back further than I'll admit. I learn by building the thing, breaking it, and building it again with fewer moving parts.
If you're building something with agents, modernizing something old, or trying to turn a vague mandate into a plan people can actually execute, I'd like to hear about it.