Summary
Built and operated customer-facing SaaS and AI products across founding teams, two acquisitions, and enterprise platforms serving millions of daily users. Grew and led multiple Scrum teams with up to 12 direct reports, sustained 95% voluntary retention over four years, and mentored multiple engineers into Senior Engineer and Tech Lead roles. Now lead product strategy and roadmap, engineering, customer delivery, and production operations for an AI-powered K-12 platform that cuts enrollment teams' application-processing workload by 80% through automated document review.
Experience
Edulyze
Head of Engineering / Founding Team
Oct 2024 - PresentRemote
Building a K-12 enrollment operations platform and leading engineering strategy, product delivery, customer implementations, and AI initiatives.
Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, React, C#, OpenAI, Gemini, AWS, GCP, Azure, CDK, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB
PowerSchool
Engineering Manager
Oct 2020 - Oct 2024Remote
Joined as tech lead on Schoology LMS, serving millions of daily users, and was promoted to engineering manager within 10 months.
- More than doubled a distributed team from 5 to 12 engineers across the US and India, hiring 5 and developing 2 Tech Leads while sustaining 95% voluntary retention over four years.
- Led PowerBuddy AI integrations adopted by 50+ beta customers and used as a strategic sales driver in closing a major enterprise agreement with a 100K+ student district.
- Led delivery of Annotation Assignments, growing adoption to nearly 2 million assignments created.
- Owned on-call rotations, incident response, and operational accountability against a 99.9% SLA, sustaining 99.95% uptime through peak back-to-school demand and expanding the on-call-capable pool by 33%.
- Redesigned client and server API architecture to reduce database load by 30%, improving platform efficiency and system health.
- Directed performance management, compensation planning, promotions, organizational design, and staffing calibration while partnering with product and senior leadership.
Technologies: PHP, TypeScript, React, AWS, MySQL, Serverless, Datadog, New Relic
Hoonuit (acquired by PowerSchool)
Lead Software Engineer
Apr 2019 - Oct 2020Remote
- Led a 7-person engineering team through acquisition and integration with zero attrition.
- Led technical execution for complex district and state implementations supporting multi-million-dollar ARR customer relationships.
- Architected a cloud ETL platform that reduced ingestion timelines by 10x and became the company's first continuous delivery pipeline.
- Built integration technology that cut delivery time for new source systems roughly in half while improving maintainability for customer-specific work.
Technologies: Java, SQL Server, Python, JavaScript, Azure, Docker
Mizuni (acquired by Hoonuit)
Director of Product Innovation
Mar 2004 - Mar 2019Dallas, TX
Joined the founding team as a data analyst and advanced through data, engineering, and product leadership roles to Director of Product Innovation, helping scale a K-12 analytics platform from inception through a successful acquisition.
- Architected a multi-tenant SaaS data warehouse and analytics platform serving 1M+ students and teachers nationwide.
- Built a program management module that generated $300K+ in standalone ARR.
- Led a team of 3 engineers responsible for full-stack product development, technical delivery, and customer implementations.
- Partnered with executive leadership on product strategy, roadmap planning, technical sales, hiring, and acquisition planning and transition.
Technologies: C#, .NET, SQL Server, JavaScript, Vue.js, AWS
Skills
- Leadership
- Engineering management · Hiring and team growth · Coaching and performance management · Organizational design · Roadmap planning · Delivery metrics · Incident response · Cross-functional product delivery · Distributed teams
- AI Product
- AI document intelligence · LLM integrations · Multimodal extraction · OCR · Prompt engineering · OpenAI · Gemini
- AI SDLC
- Agentic software development · Claude Code · Codex · AI-assisted planning · implementation · testing · and code review
- Architecture
- Full-stack architecture · Cloud and serverless systems · Event-driven architecture · Platform engineering · API design · ETL and integrations
- Technology
- C# · TypeScript · Node.js · React · Python · PHP · Java · .NET · AWS · Azure · GCP · CDK · Lambda · Step Functions · DynamoDB · SQL Server · Datadog · New Relic
Education
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
B.S. Electrical Engineering