Engineering Leader · New York

I build things people use, and the teams that ship them.

I'm an engineering leader at Datadog, fifteen years in. I started in hardware and worked my way through infrastructure to running engineering teams. Most recently I took a new product from nothing to $5M in annual revenue. I like hard problems, small teams, and shipping.

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About

I'm a mechanical engineer who fell for software.

Out of Georgia Tech I wanted to build physical things. Things people would use. I started at Quirky building prototypes, went to Wink to take products apart and learn how they worked, and somewhere in there I learned to actually code. Then to run the infrastructure underneath. Then to lead the teams that build it.

The title kept changing. What I do didn't. I build things, I break things, and I work out how the pieces fit. These days that means leading engineering at Datadog: building the teams, launching the products, and owning what they earn. It's the same job I had on day one, just bigger.

I'm happiest where software meets the physical world: sensors, hardware, data about something actually happening out there. And I care a lot about being the kind of manager people do their best work for.

The longer version: I am a mechanical engineer

Experience

Datadog

Senior Engineering Manager, APM Data Observability · New York · Oct 2023 – Present

  • Lead engineering for the APM Data Observability suite (14 engineers).
  • Incubated and grew two new products (Data Streams & Data Jobs Monitoring) for the data-engineer persona, winning new accounts.
  • Scaled Data Streams Monitoring from pre-revenue to $5M ARR in 12 months.
  • Took Data Jobs Monitoring from private beta to GA: 20% MoM revenue growth in its first 6 months post-GA.
  • Prototyped Data Warehouse Monitoring with 2 engineers, securing the first customer within 4 weeks.
  • Doubled the team in 12 months across 180+ interviews while keeping a startup-like, customer-obsessed operating model.

Numina

Head of Engineering · Brooklyn · Mar 2022 – Sep 2023

  • Owned engineering, product, and R&D for edge-AI computer-vision sensors, the data platform, public API, and analytics dashboard, plus custom hardware.
  • Drove an accuracy initiative (model retraining + algorithm work) that improved data accuracy 20–50%.
  • Revamped code delivery and testing, cutting shipping time from months to under a week.
  • Designed a new data lake, pipeline, and landing zone to absorb 3× ingestion growth.
  • Cut time-to-hire from 6 months to 4–8 weeks and built a team spanning hardware, firmware, ML/CV, and full-stack.

Squarespace

Engineering Manager → Senior SRE / Team Lead, Infrastructure · New York · Aug 2017 – Mar 2022

  • Led five infrastructure teams across Compute, Traffic, Storage, Data Center, and Security.
  • Architected a performance rewrite of the core edge load balancer: 5× faster secure connections on every request.
  • Migrated 3,000 VMs to bare-metal Kubernetes: deploys 1.5h → 5min, $100k/yr saved, 2× faster incident recovery.
  • Drove a 3× gain in data-center efficiency (60%+ utilization) and owned $5M of capital procurement.
  • Integrated pre-IPO SOX controls into infrastructure; primary Incident Commander and Code Camp instructor.

Kinoko side project

Technical Co-Founder · New York · Aug 2019 – Jan 2021

  • Built a peer-to-peer video-chat product for the aging population. WebRTC, Go, TypeScript, Postgres, and a Raspberry Pi TV kiosk.

Wink Flextronics

Site Reliability Engineer · New York · Dec 2015 – Aug 2017

  • Migrated 18 applications from Heroku to AWS Kubernetes clusters in three months.
  • Built an internal microservice-deployment product and championed SRE culture across engineering.

Quirky

Systems Engineer → BlackOps Design Engineer · New York · Jan 2014 – Dec 2015

  • Prototyping specialist on the CEO's four-person design team. Built the visual and functional prototypes for Quirky Aros and Wink Relay.
  • Designed hardware and processes to refurbish 40,000 products in one month; led Asia vendors through final R&D for new smart-home products.

Full history with dates and detail lives in the résumé (PDF).

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