Engineering leader · Product builder
I build teams and products that turn ambitious ideas in AI into useful experiences for millions of people.
About
I’m passionate about scaling engineering organizations that deliver innovative products used by millions. My work spans AI products, growth, infrastructure, machine learning, messaging, and full-stack product development.
Across Perplexity, Otter.ai, Meta, and startups, I have led organizations through rapid growth, foundational platform work, and the launch of entirely new product experiences.
Selected impact
01
Led Otter.ai’s engineering organization as it built AI meeting agents, summarization, chat, workflows, integrations, and live agents. Grew the team from 40 to more than 135 engineers while supporting the company’s expansion beyond $100M ARR.
02
Built and led a diversified Messenger organization of more than 120 engineers. Founded its machine learning and ranking function, led critical real-time messaging surfaces, and coordinated a cross-company privacy program involving more than 1,000 people.
03
Co-founded Fly Labs, creating multi-device mobile video tools later acquired by Google and integrated into Google Photos. Earlier work included financial analytics at Corre Group and infrastructure automation at ServerStack.
Experience
Perplexity
Leading engineering and product at Perplexity, building useful and ambitious products at the frontier of AI. The work brings together product development, engineering strategy, and execution to turn rapidly advancing AI capabilities into dependable experiences for millions of people.
Otter.ai
Led Otter.ai’s engineering organization and strategy across growth, product innovation, and infrastructure for its AI meeting agents. Delivered Otter Chat, meeting summarization, advanced workflows, integrations, and interactive live agents while scaling the team from 40 to more than 135 engineers and supporting growth beyond $100M ARR.
Meta
Built and scaled Messenger’s engineering organization over 11 years, growing it to more than 120 engineers and 200 team members across 10 specialized teams. Founded Messenger ML and Ranking and grew it to more than 40 engineers, led product infrastructure and web experiences, and launched Community Messaging. Also coordinated more than 1,000 engineers and stakeholders through a major EU privacy initiative spanning infrastructure, product, policy, and legal work.
Fly Labs
Co-founded Fly Labs with backing from the DreamIt Accelerator and led development of tools for multi-device mobile video capture, editing, and sharing. The company was acquired by Google, where its technology was integrated into Google Photos.
Corre Group
Led engineering at a hedge fund analytics startup, developing robust data ingestion and analytical pipelines. Built customized visualization tools and portfolio analytics that helped fund-of-fund clients assess, diversify, and optimize their investments across complex financial strategies.
ServerStack
Led software engineering for a full-service web hosting company and developed its internal platform for infrastructure provisioning, asset management, and customer billing. The system streamlined operations and resource management; the company later evolved into DigitalOcean.
Education
Ithaca, New York
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Major: Computer Science
Minors: Business and Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
Focus: Distributed Systems
New York, New York
High School
New York City specialized high school
Selected patents
Co-invented a query delegation system for pushing real-time data updates to client devices while preserving local data models.
Co-invented an authentication and synchronization flow that extends a messaging experience securely from a mobile device to a web browser.
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