I've spent 10+ years building and leading high-impact mobile products and teams — from NASA JPL to Instacart to founding my own startups. I specialize in Swift, SwiftUI, and iOS/macOS architecture, with a track record of taking apps from zero to hundreds of thousands of users, owning initiatives end-to-end from system design to CI/CD to App Store release, and leading engineering teams that care about polish, performance, and craft. At Monster, I scaled an engineering org 500% and directed all client development across iOS, Android, and Web for millions of users globally — spanning monster.com, Monster Mobile (Jobr), TalentBin, and military.com — work that contributed to a $498M acquisition.
I stay close to the edge of AI — building custom agentic workflows that have meaningfully multiplied my output and quality, because knowing how to leverage AI effectively is its own kind of senior skill. I'm drawn to teams that value craftsmanship: thoughtful animations, fluid interactions, and software that feels personal and alive.
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New Mountain Capital — Founding Architect, AI Content Infrastructure (May 2026 – Present) · Contract Leading engineering on RightsSync with New Mountain Capital and BMI: a permissioned publisher knowledge base for LLM grounding and retrieval. Architecting the platform end-to-end — retrieval, governance/provenance controls, and the infrastructure for scalable publisher and AI partnerships. |
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BookLeaf — Founder & Principal Software Engineer (Jan 2013 – Present) · Founder www.bookleaf.us ↗ — Founded and built an AI-powered scheduling platform for appointment booking and group scheduling. Lead every aspect of the business — product strategy, UX, architecture, and implementation: booking links, group scheduling polls, multi-calendar sync, automated reminders, and AI-assisted scheduling workflows. |
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Taya Necklace — Founding Engineer (Jan 2026 – Mar 2026) · Contract First and sole engineer. Built a voice-first mobile product from concept to production, transforming spoken input into structured, searchable knowledge. |
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Glue AI — Principal iOS/macOS Engineer (Mar 2025 – Jan 2026) Co-founded and backed by David O. Sacks (Craft Ventures; All-In Podcast). Led iOS and macOS development for a thread-first, AI-first workplace productivity platform with 100s of MCP & tool integrations. |
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Stealth Mode AI Startup — Advisor (Jan 2025 – Jun 2025) Generative AI sports fan platform. Fundraising. AI × Consumer × Sports. |
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Bunches — Founding Engineer (May 2020 – Dec 2024) Built and scaled mobile apps from zero to hundreds of thousands of users in under 12 months. Grew the engineering team from 1 to 5. |
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Dialpad — Director of Mobile Engineering (Aug 2021 – Mar 2023) · Contract Rescued two mobile platforms with deep architectural debt. Led two engineering teams across two products, driving ground-up modernization. |
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Speechify — Director of Mobile Engineering (Jan 2021 – Aug 2021) · Contract Brought in to fix a struggling iOS platform and raise the engineering bar across the mobile team. |
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Instacart — Staff iOS Engineer (2019 – 2021) Led projects on In-Store Fulfillment and Earnings/Marketplace teams. Championed platform-wide initiatives org-wide. |
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Jobr (Acquired by Monster.com) — Head of Engineering (2015 – 2019) Sole iOS engineer for Jobr — #1 in App Store Business. Post-acquisition, directed all client app development across iOS, Android, and Web for millions of users globally. Contributed to a $498M acquisition. |
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Foodster — Technical Founder & CEO (2014 – 2015) Built a food delivery app from the ground up — iOS client, web client, and backend infrastructure. |
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NASA JPL — Lead Software Engineer (2013 – 2014) Worked on the Earth Observing System (EOS) team — large-scale data processing and analysis. |
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BookLeaf (2013 – Present) 
Scheduling SaaS that kills the back-and-forth. Share one link — guests pick a slot, conflicts are auto-blocked, and a Google Meet or Zoom link is generated automatically.
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TrailMix (2024 – Present) 
Real-time AI running coach for Apple Watch. Ask anything mid-run — listens via Watch microphone, responds through the speaker. Hands-free, eyes-forward.
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MultiController (2024 – Present) 
One wrist. Every room. Instantly discovers every Roku TV and Sonos speaker on your network via ECP and SSDP — no setup, no pairing codes.
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Hodu Coffee (2019 – Present) 
Small Missouri roaster named after the Hebrew word for "give thanks." Single-origin Ethiopia, Colombia, and Guatemala — roasted Tuesday and Friday, shipped within the week. Born out of a closed door and a friend's gift, coffee as a quiet invitation to slow down. |
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F3 Nation (2020 – Present) 
Free, peer-led men's fitness and leadership community. I lead an F3 region of 300+ men. |
🎓 University of California, Davis — M.S. / B.S., Computer Science & Statistics