Engineering and product leader who has scaled developer-tools and
observability organizations from early startup to 2,000+ people. Group
VP at New Relic, CTO at Hasura, now building AI calendar agents at
Reclaim/Dropbox. I lead through system-level improvements: I hire strong
leaders, delegate heavily, and stay close to customers and the product.
Longstanding interest in developer experience, observability,
resilience, fast cycle times, and simplicity.
Experience
Principal Software Engineer, Reclaim.ai (acquired by
Dropbox)
Intelligent calendar automation for busy professionals
Establish the architecture and lead the implementation of
agent-oriented calendar assistance: core abstractions and data model,
the agent harness, and a UX built for human-in-the-loop decisions.
Improve the core prioritization and scheduling algorithms at the
heart of the product.
Mentor engineers on architecture, user-centered thinking, and
product and code quality; help with product management and design as
needed.
Platform work including Postgres partition tables and Temporal. Two
patent applications pending. Reclaim was acquired by Dropbox in August
2024.
CTO, Hasura
Open-source-core startup that generates APIs from
databases
Grew engineering, product management, and design into a ~100-person
organization and helped clarify the product and technical strategy.
Cut release cadence from twice a year to every two weeks while
improving developer experience, product quality, and lead time.
Hired engineering and product leaders; stood up a documentation team
and product analytics.
Expanded the stack beyond the original Haskell codebase to Rust
(runtime performance) and Java (database-driver ecosystem).
Reorganized eng, PM, and design around user connection, ownership,
and focus; introduced DORA metrics, incident response, and the first
formal performance reviews.
Partnered with the executive team on business strategy, pricing, and
packaging; increased transparency with weekly, monthly, and quarterly
updates.
Group VP of Engineering / Group VP of Product, New
Relic
Monitoring and observability platform
Led engineering and/or product for APM, Infrastructure, Browser,
Synthetics, Logging, Serverless, and parts of the platform as the
company grew from ~350 to ~2,200 people; largest group was ~150
people.
Ran the engineering group that published New Relic’s proprietary
agents as open source, and advocated for and sponsored the company’s
early participation in OpenTelemetry.
Helped establish product management as a function; coached leaders,
grew teams, and shaped the culture.
Left Hasura to explore observability product ideas built on
OpenTelemetry. Built several prototypes (widely distributed telemetry
storage, an OTel-native UI, and a vendor-neutral dashboard system) and
interviewed many practitioners and buyers before deciding not to pursue
after not finding a wedge I liked.
Shipped Wallowa, an
open-source software-development analytics tool built with DuckDB, Rust,
and TypeScript.
Director of Product, Cedexis
DNS-based adaptive global load balancer driven by real-user
monitoring
Owned product management and design for the RUM and DNS-based global
load-balancing products; partnered with the CEO on direction and with
engineering, design, and sales engineers on requirements and the
roadmap.
Product Manager, Jama Software
Product management for the requirements-management product;
organized and led the company’s first customer advisory board.
Senior Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Support
Engineer, Jive Software
Joined when the company was bootstrapped and under 10 people and was
there until about ~350 people; company created a category and IPO’d
after I departed. Started and led the customer engineering team,
established the support function as the first support engineer, and
product-managed the XMPP-based IM server and client and the flagship
Clearspace product.
Other Experience &
Activities
Limited Partner, Oregon Venture Fund (2020–2021):
participated in diligence and investment across several companies.
Conservationist, Buncombe Hollow Forest
(2020–present): forest and riparian restoration to suppress invasives
and improve beaver habitat and fish passage.
Guest lecturer, Managerial Analytics, Portland
State University School of Business.
Interests
Family, programming, computer science and mathematics, hiking, forest
and riparian conservation, ecology and soil, road trips, history.