I am an executive product engineering leader with a customer-first approach to leadership, guiding teams, leaders, and engineers to solve our customers’ toughest challenges with autonomy and velocity. My leadership philosophy centers on empowering talent to drive innovation and deliver high-impact solutions.
Currently, I serve as the VP of Engineering at Prefect, where I lead talented engineering teams responsible for the critical data workflows of thousands of businesses worldwide. Based remotely in Longmont, CO, I am passionate about fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Outside of work, I’m a dedicated husband and dad, a car nut and Formula 1 enthusiast, and a lifelong gamer.
During my tenure at CircleCI, I held roles as Senior Engineering Manager, Director, and Senior Director of Engineering, guiding the company through a period of hyper-growth. My key responsibilities and achievements included:
Leadership and Strategic Initiatives: Led dozens of successful product and engineering initiatives, including a complete UI redesign and re-platforming, integration with GitLab, and the development of new products such as CircleCI’s Insights data product. Drove significant improvements in reliability, security, and the modernization of CircleCI’s business intelligence data stack.
Domain Leadership: Established and led multiple domains within product engineering, including core application engineering, growth engineering, business intelligence and analytics, data and AI/ML product engineering, and developer experience.
Organizational Scaling: Scaled the engineering organization from 50 to 250 personnel, including engineers, managers, and support staff. Implemented processes for discovery, planning, and OKRs to ensure alignment and success at both team and division levels.
Acquisition and Integration: Managed the acquisition and integration of PoniCode in early 2022, leading to the successful launch of CircleCI’s VSCode Extension, which currently has over 80,000 downloads.
Team Oversight: Directed up to eight engineering teams within CircleCI’s R&D organization, managing around 80 personnel, including engineering directors, managers, individual contributors, and technical leaders.
Led a team of full-stack engineers delivering collaboration and conversation tools across the InVisionApp product suite. Provided technical and product leadership, guided agile development practices, and fostered cross-team collaboration. Responsible for mentorship, hiring, and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.
Employee #11 at HashiCorp and lead front-end engineer for core products including Terraform Enterprise, Vault Enterprise, Nomad, and Consul. Drove the design and implementation of front-end applications supporting both enterprise and open-source customers, guiding the front-end development team to build robust, user-centric interfaces.