- Lead the Transactional Storage org (5 teams, 10+ engineers), owning Datadog's application data storage platforms: Postgres, UnifiedKV, Search, Data Replication, and Caching.
- Cut ~$160K/month ($2M/year) in infrastructure cost in a single quarter: migrated Postgres shards across 6 data centers to shared compute in under 4 weeks, deleted unused staging clusters, and right-sized production fleets.
- Set direction for application data storage: migrated off Cassandra and removed Mongo platform support, consolidating onto the internal KV database and Postgres PaaS.
- Reset a stalled rewrite of the in-house KV storage engine and shipped it to GA: 2× load absorbed in <10 minutes, 30% lower cost, and better performance at scale.
- Matured the Frames data stability platform: 20+ new use cases, higher intake availability. Folded it into Caching to remove product overlap.
Engineering Leader · New York
I build things people use, and the teams that ship them.
These days I lead Transactional Storage at Datadog. I like hard problems, small teams, and shipping.
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.
Experience
- Led 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.
Built by Experiment LLC
- Shipped three AI-first SaaS products solo on Lovable and Supabase.
- txt.wedding: SMS announcements for couples. ~10 organic signups a month, with active users.
- Green Thumb: weather-smart yard and plant care reminders for homeowners.
- Caring Loop: care coordination for family caregivers.
Numina
- 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.
- 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
- Built a peer-to-peer video-chat product for the aging population. WebRTC, Go, TypeScript, Postgres, and a Raspberry Pi TV kiosk.
Wink Flextronics
- 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
- 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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