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Min Investment:
$25,000.00Max Investment:
$100,000.00Target Investment:
$50,000.00
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Education
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- TU
- Uo
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Work Experience
Personal Sabbatical
2025
Giving myself some time and space to reflect on how I want to shape the next chapter—whether that's building, advising, leading, or something totally unexpected. Excited to focus on personal growth, family, travel, and exploration of new ideas.
2022 - 2025
VP of Engineering
2024 - 2025
- recreated the entire Engineering function from scratch, hiring senior developers and building a culture of high trust, low ego, and top performance. - balanced long-term thinking with short term pragmatism: ship fast while keeping Future Us in mind. - remained a hands-on engineering leader throughout: writing code, reviewing PRs, and troubleshooting alerts alongside my team. - built initial GenAI agent prototypes leveraging semantic search, reciprocal rank fusion, and retrieval augmented generation.
Head of Engineering
2023 - 2024
Senior Software Engineer
2022 - 2023
2015 - 2022
Venture Partner
2015 - 2022
Technical advisor helping entrepreneurs at outstanding software companies execute private stock transactions.
2020 - 2022
Data Engineer
2020 - 2022
Created comprehensive Python/SQL ETL system to ingest hundreds of versioned data shapes from dozens of Kafka publishers into seven Snowflake data warehouses. Scaled to billions of events daily.
2018 - 2020
Software Engineer
2018 - 2020
Built out several multi-TB Elasticsearch clusters to support Arabic/English/Chinese-language ML products for data science team. Wrote all initial code for a data pipeline based on S3/SNS/SQS.
2016 - 2018
Software Engineer
2016 - 2018
Built first DC/OS framework on Elastic Stack using DC/OS Commons library. Helped identify requirements and troubleshoot issues with both the underlying library and the test suite.
2007 - 2016
Founder
2007 - 2016
Created language learning service that works in conjunction with existing collage and US Army Special Forces curricula. Salon.com: http://bit.ly/PxSYkf. SFChronicle front page: http://bit.ly/MVwGDu
2009 - 2015
Search/Analytics Architect
2009 - 2015
Built search/analytics solution for federal/state government agencies (e.g., usa.gov, whitehouse.gov, noaa.gov, nps.gov) that offer search to site visitors.
2006 - 2007
Lecturer, Arabic Language
2006 - 2007
Teaching Modern Standard Arabic
1988 - 1992
Engineering Intern
1988 - 1992
Held multiple software development positions in different groups within the Agency, primarily in SigInt organizations. Held TS/SCI clearance with full scope polygraph.