I'm a principal/foundational engineer and repeat founder. I've spent most of my career building and operating systems that break in very real ways when you get things wrong.
I've founded and scaled multiple products including Staging Labs (acquired), Crypto-Loot, ArtlyCart, and uPlexa. I've also worked inside larger organizations like Dapper Labs, Integral, and TeraGo Networks, where performance, correctness, and uptime directly affected revenue, users, and reputation.
A lot of my work has lived close to the edge of failure. Low-latency systems, blockchain infrastructure, mining and execution paths, trading and MEV-adjacent systems, and backend platforms running under unpredictable load. Not demo environments. Production systems with real traffic, real money, and very little room for hand-waving.
Founding companies alongside writing the core systems has shaped how I think. I care deeply about how early technical decisions age, how shortcuts compound, and how "good enough for now" quietly becomes the thing that slows everything down later.
How I Work
I work with teams that already have something real in the world and are starting to feel the friction.
The problems are rarely about missing features. They show up as latency that keeps creeping up, deploys that feel risky, systems that no one fully understands anymore, or teams that spend too much time reacting instead of building.
I help teams untangle those problems while they keep shipping. That usually means slowing down just enough to make the right structural fixes, then speeding back up with fewer surprises. The goal is not perfection. It's to make the system behave better tomorrow than it did yesterday.
When there's a good fit, I stay on as a fractional principal engineer. I help guide architecture and execution as the product grows, review the decisions that matter, and step in where experience saves time and mistakes.
Who I Work With
I typically work with post-seed to Series A teams building Web3, fintech, or trading systems where failure is expensive and performance actually matters.
If you just need someone to clear a backlog, I'm probably not a fit. If you want someone who has lived through scale, outages, rewrites, and the consequences of early decisions, and can help you move faster without breaking things, I can help.
