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Senior Staff Engineer & Tech Evangelist

• Own engineering best practices for the ~300-engineer Claims tech org; lead its AI Center of Excellence and Claims Innovation Lab
• Lead legacy claims-platform modernization, using Claude Haiku/Sonnet agent pipelines to analyze Guidewire Gosu code at scale
• Created “differential modernization,” in which AI agents replay real adjuster workflows as test oracles for the new platform
• Drive adoption of FleetKit, an AI agent system for software engineering with human approval gates and a self-correcting knowledge base
• Ran a build-vs-buy evaluation of AI agent platforms: internal CAVE, Cursor cloud agents, and Claude managed agents
• Speaker at AI Engineer NYC 2026 (topic: Inside the Fable War Room)

Chief Hacker & Co-Founder

• Lead Richmond’s civic hackathon, built around Mayor Danny Avula’s Thriving Richmond action plan and its 7 pillars
• Ran Hack for RVA 2026 (March 27–29): 147 participants at the Science Museum of Virginia and satellite sites along the Pulse line
• Designed 4-person pillar teams (sponsor, community lead, nonprofit, city official) that framed each problem before the event
• Led follow-through on 4 prototype handoffs to adopters, including Housing & Community Development and the Community College Workforce Alliance
• Leading the 2027 edition, hosted by the University of Richmond

Forward Deployed Engineer & Co-Founder

• Delivered contract engineering, including site stabilization for Lost Office Collaborative’s Loca.AI platform
• Build proof-of-concept AI products, including Hardcopy Tools (a research, print, annotate, dictate, and reconcile workflow)
• Prototyped a real estate auction-pressure prediction engine

L6 Engineer (promoted from L5)

• Developed AI tooling on AWS Bedrock w/ Claude 3 (UXR translation, PR standards checking, example code generation)
• Authored 1,000+ best-practice code examples in Python and Ruby; built the FOSS Docker/CDK framework that tests them in 11 languages
• Led response to high-profile security breaches and a production outage, from triage through post-mortem and remediation
• Speaker at Data & AI Summit 2024 (topic: How I built FordGPT) - 500 attendees, rated 4.3/5

Principal Cloud Engineer

• Designed and deployed a horizontal Kubernetes service platform for 100+ APIs across 3 environments
• Gave 400+ developers tools to analyze cost savings

Principal DevOps Engineer (promoted from Sr.)

• Owned the platform and pipeline for a PySpark fraud system that caught $50M+ in fraud losses in 2018
• Owned 10+ inner-sourced AWS infrastructure libraries; refactored 3 used by 100+ teams to 90% test coverage
• Lead developer, Summer 2019 Hackathon (Most Innovative Tech & People’s Choice); 3 patents pending

Sr. Quality Engineer (promoted from Quality Engineer)

• Built self-service web and API test platforms for app developers (Ruby, Jenkins, CircleCI, Postman)

Founder & Chair

Founder & Organizer

Mentor & Coach

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