I am a Fractional CTO, helping startups and small companies with their technical needs, including mentoring and advising, technical investigations and recommendations, establishing best practices, and helping build out growing engineering organizations. Prior to that, as a father of two seeing first-hand the difficulty in securing child care, I co-founded LegUp as CTO, a startup dedicated to helping working parents find and enroll in quality child care throughout their child's life. In addition, I've worked at large tech companies like Microsoft (as Group Engineering Manager for the Virtual Events team) and as CTO of the CarRentals.com brand in Expedia, leading a global technology team building the stack for the brand.
I've always enjoyed learning and coding, and did several side projects, many in the area of voice with a series of published Alexa skills. I grew my skills in React, Express, Postgres, and AWS technologies as I built out LegUp's platform. More recently, I've been using AI tools to quickly create applications based on my architectural designs and review. You can find examples of several of these throughout my repository.
As a lifelong learner myself, I also enjoy helping others learn. If my code helps you, please let me know - I genuinely love to hear that! And if you see a bug or want to share some learnings with me after viewing my code, drop me a note - I'm all ears! Feel free to read my thoughts on technology and leadership at my blog