Staff Software Engineer, San Francisco.

Fifteen years building and running production systems, most recently the platforms behind AI products. Engineer #3 at Udemy, founding Head of Engineering at Jasper Health, and Staff Software Engineer on Abridge's Foundations team. Currently building self-hosted AI infrastructure: MCP servers, model serving with vLLM and Ollama, speech pipelines, and agents on the Claude Agent SDK.

• 15 years shipping production software
• Udemy #3: third engineer hired, nearly eight years to Software Architect
• Abridge: Staff Software Engineer, Foundations team, ambient clinical AI
• Jasper Health: first engineering hire, built the stack solo, grew the team to five

Where I have been: Independent Engineer (2025 - present), Abridge (2024 - 2025), Woven (2024), Collective (2022 - 2023), Jasper Health (2020 - 2021), Udemy (2011 - 2019).

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