I build AI and distributed systems that ship, scale, and generate ROI, then train teams to own and extend them in production.
- Psychology + Business degrees (top 2% scholarship recipient)
- 6 years as CTO, scaling a marketing agency from 3 → 160 people through workflow automation
- Self-taught engineer shipping production systems in Elixir/Phoenix, Python, and n8n
Elixir & Distributed Systems Experience
- Architected and shipped Elixir/Phoenix systems with 99.9% uptime, designed for fault tolerance, observability, and long-term maintainability
- Built an open-source scheduling platform leveraging OTP principles (supervision trees, GenServers, message passing) to handle real-world concurrency and failure modes
- Comfortable designing domain boundaries, supervising long-running processes, and reasoning about state, back-pressure, and throughput in production systems
AI & Data Systems (Built, Not Theorized)
- Built a translation engine reducing post-editing time 40–60%
- Led architecture, implementation, and deployment of a RAG-based video Q&A system
- Production experience integrating LLMs into Elixir-adjacent stacks, designing async pipelines and background workers where Elixir excels
Business-Aware Engineering
My psychology and business background is not separate from my technical work—it’s what makes it effective.
- I design systems for actual human behavior, not idealized workflows
- I understand margin pressure, sales cycles, and operational constraints
- I also write the code, architect infrastructure, debug production failures, and handle 2am outages
Leadership & Scale
- Reduced manual processes 80% via custom automation, enabling a 160-person operation to scale without proportional overhead
- Led engineering teams while remaining deeply hands-on
- Explained complex Elixir- and AI-driven integrations on sales calls
- Trained professional developers in LLM implementation and production system design
What You Get
A rare combination:
- Deep Elixir/OTP system design
- Hands-on execution in production
- Clear understanding of business impact
I build systems that work reliably, scale predictably, and solve problems that actually matter.