Different industry. Same playbook.

Public markets: I built a custodial and brokerage platform for independent RIAs from an empty repository — digital account opening, funding, trading, clearing on Apex and DriveWealth, rebalancing, fractional shares and reporting. I built the rails, not an integration on top of someone else's. Private markets: technology leadership at a private-placement firm investing into private funds, where the hard problems are investor reporting, risk visibility and operational control.

Altruist is now a $1.9B company. Took it through its SOC 1 audit. Cut operating cost 50% at Equi in under two months.

Consumer lending, payment orchestration and fraud — built inside the rules rather than around them. I've owned security architecture for a lending platform in India, contained fraud at a ticketing platform with throttling and detection plans that saved real money, and founded a fintech super app spanning banking, lending and investment.

PCI DSS + SOC 2 live at Afton. Security posture owned as CISO at Monedo. NuCash taken to revenue positive.

Not demos — production systems. An AI-native memory backend that captures, tags and retrieves so an assistant can proactively surface what matters; an AI-first rebuild that turned a non-functional app into a feature-complete product; and AI adoption across an engineering org to speed up development, debugging, monitoring and alerting. The hard engineering is trust: extraction that doesn't mislabel, retrieval that scales, agents that fail loudly.

Memory + proactive surfacing shipped at Hey Emmy. AI-driven engineering rolled out across Afton's org.

From a consumer-and-enterprise ticketing platform running $100M+ in annual sales, to a 100+ person product and engineering organization, to a consumer education platform through its IPO — I've built and scaled software where the same system has to delight a consumer and satisfy an enterprise buyer at once.

Monolith → modular at Afton with 40% better burn efficiency. Full development-team management across consumer and enterprise surfaces.

The sixth employee at Chegg, I scaled with the company from Series A through its IPO and beyond — to 800+ people — running a 100+ engineering org across four countries and rebuilding a Drupal monolith into a service architecture. The digital reading and content-delivery work produced six US patents; and along the way I supported technical due diligence on 7+ acquisitions.

Series A → IPO → 800+ people. 100+ engineers across four countries. Technical due diligence on 7+ acquisitions.

As CTO at Rocket Lawyer I ran technology, product and program management for a 100+ person organization serving consumers and small businesses, delivered GDPR compliance end to end, and refocused the roadmap on the product lines that actually drove revenue.

GDPR delivered end to end. 100+ person org across technology, product and program management.