The technical narratives behind enterprise data infrastructure deals.

I architect the engagements where the technology is new, the stakes are large, and the customer's engineers don't work for me. Capital One. Target. Visa. Adobe. eBay. Six years across two vendors, one practice.

What this site is for

I'm a senior solutions architect at Aerospike, the high-performance NoSQL database. Before Aerospike I was Principal Architect at Hazelcast, reporting to the CTO. The work has always been the same: take the hardest enterprise infrastructure proofs of value, run them as actual software projects with sprint cadence and pre-written acceptance criteria, and get results from teams of engineers I have no authority over. The customers have been Capital One, Target, Visa, and others I'm not at liberty to name.

This site is the long-form record of that practice. War stories from specific engagements. Methodology pieces on running PoVs as software projects and on leading engineers without sticks. A gallery of conference talks. The biographical context that explains how I got here.

Most of that content is in production right now. What you see today is the foundation: the design, the typography, the structural commitments. The writing is coming, piece by piece, over the next several weeks. If you've landed here from a recruiting context and you'd like to talk before the site is finished, the contact link below works.

What I'm looking for

Field CTO, Principal Architect, Principal Solutions Architect, or Director of Solutions Architecture roles at enterprise data infrastructure companies. The work I do day-to-day at Aerospike is already at that altitude — reference architectures for AI feature stores and agentic memory systems, technical ownership of strategic seven-figure deals, partnership-level collaboration with hardware vendors like AMD, conference talks at AWS re:Invent and Google Cloud Next. The title hasn't caught up to the work yet. I'm looking for a role where it does.

I'm based in San Francisco and work hybrid from Aerospike's Mountain View headquarters three days a week. I'm open to remote roles with reasonable Bay Area presence requirements, or to relocating for the right opportunity.