Principal engineer building multi-agent platforms, MCP tool ecosystems, and clinical workflows — with 20+ years shipping systems at scale.
Experience
Principal Software Engineer
2025–Present
Triangle Health · Remote
- Architected a multi-agent platform with GPT-5.x, MCP, and LangGraph for onboarding, clinical data collection, document analysis, and orchestration.
- Built an extensible MCP server ecosystem exposing healthcare tools to AI assistants through standardized interfaces.
- Designed secure HL7 FHIR / SMART on FHIR integrations with consent, auth, and observable production AI pipelines.
Founder & Principal Engineer
Experimental
Professor Claw / The Claw Institute · Self-hosted
- Built a Telegram-connected agent society for research, synthesis, software development, and daily technical briefings with TTS.
- Extended the system into The Claw Institute: personalized curricula with prerequisite mapping and adaptive remediation.
- Operate as architect of the agent environment — objectives, constraints, and quality — while agents generate and improve workflows.
Owner / Principal
Ongoing
MobTouch Inc. · Los Angeles, CA
- Lead end-to-end delivery: Discover → Build → Launch → Scale with pragmatic AI integrations.
- Built DocuSend (document campaign automation) and Route & Ride (delivery ops + proof of delivery).
- Advise and implement modern stacks across Next.js, Kotlin/Spring, Rails, cloud, and LLM features.
Senior Staff Software Engineer
2018–2025
Bird · Los Angeles, CA
- Architected Habitat, Bird’s geospatial configuration and experimentation platform powering 300+ cities.
- Built the internal developer platform and React micro-frontend architecture for autonomous team delivery.
- Led monolith-to-Kubernetes microservices modernization, centralized auth, ops platforms, and global legal CMS.
Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder
2013–2018
Translation Exchange · San Francisco, CA
- Built a TMS with LSP marketplace integrating 20 translation vendors and 30 platform connectors.
- Designed TML for contextual pluralization, gender, and complex linguistic cases.
- Shipped Zendesk integration for real-time CSR translation across 50 languages.
Senior Software Engineer
2007–2013
Geni.com / Yammer / MyHeritage · Los Angeles, CA
- Built membership/billing services and a third-party API platform with OAuth SSO.
- Developed a newsfeed engine distributing millions of customized stories via queues and map/reduce.
- Shipped crowdsourced localization tooling for 70+ languages.
Senior Software Engineer / Engineering Manager
2005–2007
SOA Software / Akana · Los Angeles, CA
- Led team delivery of the flagship service management product on Java/J2EE.
- Architected an SLA service processing millions of application logs with rule-based violation signaling.
Software Engineer
1997–2005
Digital Evolution / US Interactive · Brentwood, CA
- Built StarBright World for teens with severe medical conditions — moderated chat, games, and community.
- Delivered e-commerce and custom applications for enterprise clients.
Skills
AI / LLM
GPT-5.x · OpenAI Responses API · MCP · LangGraph · LangChain · RAG · Structured outputs · Tool calling · Human-in-the-loop
Backend
Kotlin · Spring Boot · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · Event-driven architecture
Frontend
React · Next.js · TypeScript · Micro-frontends
Cloud & Ops
AWS · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · OpenTelemetry · Datadog
Healthcare
HL7 FHIR · SMART on FHIR · OAuth 2.0 · Clinical workflows · Consent & secure data sharing
Education
B.S. Computer Science
California State University, Northridge · Focus on embedded systems, databases, AI, and logic · Tau Beta Pi