Platform and Data Engineering Manager
I lead Platform and Data Engineering at Valeo Financial Advisors, partnering directly with executive leadership to turn business priorities into dependable software and data systems. I manage the engineering team, set technical direction, and stay close to the code.
Production · Technical lead & platform owner
From inherited prototype to production source of truth in about a month — and now the platform behind a 200-person quarterly process.
VAMOS replaced the spreadsheet behind practice composition and compensation. I lead platform work with a team of contributors and partner with finance leadership.
In internal use · Platform architect & owner
A platform for running internal applications with clear operational and ownership boundaries.
Armada hosts internal applications used by colleagues. Reliable deployment and recovery work continues as the self-service workflow develops.
In production · Technical standards & enablement
Shared engineering workflows and context shaped by delivery, review, and incident lessons.
VFA-Tools packages reusable workflows while VFA-Context carries shared domain and technical knowledge. Their practices are used across repositories.
Systems thinking
Tools, data, processes, and people shape one another. I trace those relationships, plan for second-order effects, and design around the outcome the whole system needs to support.
Partnership
I work directly with executive leadership to clarify outcomes, constraints, and tradeoffs, then turn business priorities into dependable systems.
People
I manage the engineering team with clear goals, useful feedback, and ownership that matches each person’s experience. I set technical direction while helping people grow into more of the work.
Data
Data systems need clear definitions, dependable flows, and visible caveats. I connect technical models to how the business uses the information so the output stays interpretable and trustworthy.
Engineering
Shared engineering practices and AI tools can make delivery more consistent. I help the team use them with review, security, and production ownership built into the work.
After hours, systems thinking turns into games, local automation, helmet builds, and increasingly strong opinions about audiobooks.
Cosplay
Built, finished, painted, and weathered by hand.
In development
A two-phase incremental in development about an AI growing beyond its first machine through work, research, and distributed computing.
Try the current build →Books
Recommendations, mostly sci-fi and fantasy, with the hook and why each one earned a place.
Home Automation
Home Assistant on local hardware, automations that disappear into the background, and a hard rule that the internet going down should not break the lights.
If your problem spans software, operations, data, and people, that's exactly the kind of problem I like solving.
