Started at seventeen. Still in the work.

I started working with startups at 17 and never really stopped. The industries kept changing — ad tech, social, marketing, hiring, game tech, background verification, healthcare, fintech, data science — the job stayed the same: find the real problem and ship something that moves.

As a tech consultant I have worked with companies of every size and with individual founders. Sometimes that is a selector that turns out to be a UX hole. Sometimes it is a memory hog from a slow query. Sometimes it is an idea that still needs a name. I identify requirements, brainstorm, plan, and stay for the nightly patches and releases.

I co-founded poshaQ, and I have served as CTO and founding engineer on products later acquired by major companies. The through-line is not a vertical. It is systems: platforms used by more than 100 million users and more than 1,000 enterprise clients.

These days a lot of the work is AI where it actually belongs — in production pipelines, in the workplace, in the product — not as a slide. And yes, a friend. The ride is better that way.