About Me
I spent years at Samsung SmartThings shipping real-time systems that couldn't afford to be slow. Now I work with businesses that are too smart to waste six months on a requirements doc.
I spent years on the event pipeline team at Samsung SmartThings. The kind of engineering where milliseconds matter and your code runs across millions of connected devices. Distributed systems, real-time event processing, reliability engineering at a scale where small mistakes become loud ones. I was good at it. I was also surrounded by processes designed for a company with hundreds of thousands of employees, not one.
Now I work with businesses that are too smart to waste six months on a requirements doc. I bring the same depth of engineering with a fraction of the overhead, and an honest-to-goodness interest in your actual problem, not your Jira ticket count. AI has quietly become my superpower: not in a 'replace humans' way, but in an 'I can prototype in a day what used to take a sprint' way. The result is faster delivery, lower cost, and someone who's actually paying attention.
Started building software
Barcode scanners, SSRS dashboards, and medical supply logistics for a hospice. Not glamorous. Taught me that software solves real problems for real people, and that unglamorous systems still need to work.
Principal Engineer, Amway
Technical lead on a North American customer loyalty platform serving 3M+ users. Learned what it means to own a system at scale: security vulnerabilities, launch deadlines, and all.
Joined Samsung SmartThings
Event pipeline team. Kafka-based event streaming across 300M+ connected devices, sub-second latency, 99.9%+ uptime. The kind of infrastructure where being wrong at 9am becomes a PagerDuty alert by 9:01.
Founded Wooden Bird
Left big tech to work with businesses that want serious engineering without the serious overhead. No account manager. No markup. Just the work, delivered.