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CTO at Trio Health · Denver, Colorado · LinkedIn
Experience
Trio Health · CTO
Trio turns de-identified EHR data into research-ready datasets and patient cohorts for life-sciences teams.
- Lead product, engineering, data and quality. Moved the team to AI-native development.
- Own data quality and de-identification, keeping patients private without gutting what the data can show.
Crafted · Head of AI and Engineering
A software product consultancy. I ran the engineering org and supported the team on client work and their own growth.
- Rebuilt our delivery process to be AI-native, from gathering requirements through production support. It became a consulting offering because of how much faster projects went.
- Shipped a full B2B SaaS portal in six weeks in early 2025, prototyping with AI tools and then hardening the code for production.
- Worked with a VP of Engineering for 18 months to rework their 20-person team's delivery process. Their change defect rate went from 50% to 4%.
- Ran product engineering, API and QA for a client for six months while they hired their own leader. We hit every deliverable and 99.9% uptime.
- Built an AI-assisted video processing system on AWS with people in the loop to check the output.
Fractional Head of Engineering
- Paired with the VP of Product at a US lender to build the first version of a multilingual platform for underwriting loans in Latin America. The platform grew the client's revenue from $500K to $5M a year.
Briza · Senior Engineering Manager
A Series A startup building a unified API for commercial insurance.
- Led 15 engineers and 5 contractors across North America, Latin America and Europe.
- Redesigned the data model with the data and product engineers. New integrations went from three months to two.
- Cut the time for on-call engineers to get a secure connection to customer data from 20 minutes to under 5.
Twilio · Engineering Manager
- Started the engineering team for Twilio Services and hired from early-career through principal engineers.
- Shipped AI/ML systems for Twilio Support: 10% higher customer satisfaction, 30% of tickets deflected, and about $1M a year in lower operating cost.
- Led the partner tiering and certification engine, getting four teams to agree on one design, and shipped it for Twilio's annual conference.
SpotX · Tech Lead and Engineering Manager
- Launched an ad reporting product over billions of data points for enterprise customers. Moved the legacy app to Kafka and services.
- Got a slow customer landing page from 10 seconds to under 1 by pulling from a faster source of truth.
Pivotal Labs · Senior Software Engineer
- Led a five-person client team building distributed middleware for an e-commerce application.
Flatirons Solutions · Software Engineer
- Aviation operations software.
Community
- Mentor in the EforAll Colorado accelerator, summer 2024.
- Advise founders and engineering leaders for free, on things like who their customer is, code quality and fundraising.
- Member of CTO Lunches.
Education and certifications
- BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (3.95 GPA)
- Certified developer on AWS and Google Cloud