Engineering Leader ยท Community Builder ยท Servant Leader
I'm an Engineering Manager at Stripe with 13+ years of building products that impact millions. My career has taken me from the high-pressure trenches of Bitdefender, through enterprise-scale migrations at Adobe, into the developer security world at Snyk, and now to the frontlines of global payments at Stripe.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped treating leadership like a title and started treating it like a craft. I believe in servant leadership โ empowering teams through trust, transparency, and companionship rather than hierarchical control. My teams don't just ship code; they build environments where the best ideas win and every person grows.
Beyond the office, I build communities, speak at international conferences, and write about leadership, AI, and what it means to be human in a world being reshaped by technology. I call it the Technological Renaissance.
A decade of building products, leading teams, and learning that the hardest problems aren't technical โ they're human.
Engineering Manager
Leading high-performance operations at one of the world's most critical financial infrastructure companies. Handling multi-million dollar customer impacts with a razor focus on trust, transparency, and the relentless pursuit of operational excellence. Building AI-native engineering practices and redefining what servant leadership looks like in high-stakes environments.
Engineering Manager
Navigated the complexities of developer security tooling within a rapidly scaling organization. Led teams building products that help developers find and fix vulnerabilities, while cultivating a culture of ownership and continuous improvement in a hyper-growth environment.
Senior Software Engineer โ Technical Lead
Led the migration of flagship products like Adobe XD and Adobe Account to modern web architectures. This was where the "get things done" ethos crystallized โ taking massive, unwieldy legacy systems and transforming them into performant, scalable platforms serving millions of creative professionals worldwide.
Software Engineer โ First Management Role
The crucible years. From 20+ rejected interviews to becoming the person who never stops climbing stairs. Built the foundational "get things done" mentality in high-pressure environments โ learning that control and effort alone don't scale, but curiosity and relentless improvement always compound.
Keynotes and talks at the intersection of engineering leadership, AI strategy, and what makes teams truly extraordinary.
A 3-layer framework for the AI-Native Engineering Leader. The "Bicycle for the Mind" has been upgraded to a jetpack, but most organizations are still using it to fly in circles. This session shares a practical decision framework โ Product Layer, Team Layer, Leadership Layer โ to transform engineering leaders into Superhuman Orchestrators who amplify human wisdom rather than just automating tasks.
A deep dive into the interplay between emotions, personalities, and high performance. How trust, respect, and a nuanced understanding of human motivation shape technical teams that don't just deliver โ they thrive. From the Three Horsemen of Anger to the Impact Compiler, real frameworks from real teams.
Why "running on localhost" is the biggest career risk in tech. How to move from invisible contributor to visible leader by mastering the art of communication โ from internal presentations to conference stages. A practical guide to building your signal in a world full of noise.
A philosophical exploration of how AI's liberation of human time can lead to a rebirth of creativity. Grounded in real experiments โ from using generative AI to transcend D&D campaigns to redefining what "execution" means when it becomes a commodity. The future belongs to those who choose wisdom over mere intelligence.
I believe you cannot be discovered if you are running on localhost. That's why I built Stories of the Web โ a community for engineers who want to go beyond the surface and dive deep into the real stories behind successful digital products.
We explore the hardships, the victories, the architectural debates, and the human decisions that shape the web. From AI-resilient mindsets to React deep dives, from law & tech to career frameworks โ it's where genuine professional growth happens.
JS, Web Components, Accessibility, AI, and beyond.
A space where all backgrounds and abilities are valued.
The process, research, and hardships rarely shared elsewhere.
Messy, honest notes from building a career and life in public โ without pretending I've figured it out.
Hiring smart people is the easy part. Ensuring they don't get bored โ and making sure the organization actually sees their work โ is the hard engineering problem.
Read on LinkedInAnger is rarely just anger. In the workplace, it's almost always a secondary emotion โ a UI wrapper hiding Shame, Envy, or Fear. Name the demon, strip it of its power.
Read on LinkedInWhen a leader has to "verify" every step, that's latency. When a team fears admitting a mistake, that's packet loss. Trust isn't a soft skill โ it's an efficiency mechanism.
Read on LinkedIn"Whenever you can, take the stairs. Someday the elevator might be broken and you'll feel exhausted, but all those climbed stairs will still carry you to the top."
Read on LinkedInYou cannot be discovered if you are running on localhost. Treat your network like infrastructure maintenance โ because isolation is a single point of failure.
Read on LinkedInAt 23, I believed I could control life through effort. At 33, my plan looks like spaghetti thrown at a wall โ and I'm more okay with that than ever.
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