Proof of Work

Selected Achievements & Impact.

Platik | CEO & Co-Founder (2024 - Present) - Boston, MA

Revolutionizing decision-making through structured AI guidance.

• Bootstrapped and launched a novel consumer AI "Thinking Partner" from concept to market.

• Secured initial angel investment and currently pivoting proprietary technology to high-potential B2B applications.

miim | Engineering Leadership (2020 - 2024) - Salt Lake City, UT

ALed the design and development of advanced, near real-time tracking systems.

• Oversaw multiple teams designing and operating a multi-camera, multi-object tracking system..

• Developed a real-time edge video streaming system featuring single-frame synchronization capabilities, utilizing Python, C/C++, Java, and Terraform.

Banjo | Senior Platform Engineer (2016 - 2020) - Redwood City, CA

Architected the backbone of real-time AI event detection from public social media feeds.

• Designed and operated high-throughput data and media pipelines critical for real-time AI systems, including indexing and frame generation for ML pipelines.

• Developed DataAPI, the primary source of truth powering search, aggregation, and  rules engines.

Streamnation | Lead Platform Engineer (2012 - 2014) - San Francisco, CA

Design & operations of a global media storage and delivery infrastructure.

• Architected multi-petabyte storage systems spanning multiple international data centers.

• Built core backend systems for media storage, access control, content conversion, ingestion pipelines, and global content delivery, maintaining 24/7 operational responsibility.

Cachinko | Engineering Director (2008 - 2012) - Houston,  TX

Built the engineering function and scalable platform from the ground up.

• Established near-shore development centers and designed a scalable, white-label web platform.

• Applied advanced NLP and Machine Learning techniques to build a semantic job recommendation engine..