About Me

A decade building at scale for enterprise and high-growth startups.

The Background

At Mastercard, I directed engineering teams modernizing payments infrastructure in one of the most regulated environments on the planet. Cloud-native architecture, high-volume transaction processing, security and compliance at global scale.

At Dapper Labs, I owned the wallet and payments platform behind NBA Top Shot—the revenue engine that processed over one billion in gross sales. I scaled the org from a single pod to multiple domain-focused teams across NBA Top Shot, NFL ALL DAY, and Disney Pinnacle.

At Flow Foundation, I ran developer growth—DevRel, marketing, tooling, onboarding, the whole ecosystem. Doubled monthly active developers during a market contraction, without relying on heavy incentive programs. Grew ecosystem TVL nearly 20x.

The Breaking Point

I achieved the childhood dream. Big logos, real products, actual users. I learned a ton and worked with incredible people.

But after years at high-growth startups, I was ready for a change. I wanted to work closer to the ground—directly with founders, on problems I could see through from start to finish.

Based in St. Louis. For consulting services, visit workhoodie.com.

What I'm Good At

Leadership

  • Technical Strategy & Roadmaps
  • Team Building & Mentorship
  • Cross-functional Alignment

Engineering

  • TypeScript / Go / Python
  • React / Next.js / Astro
  • PostgreSQL / Redis
  • System Architecture

Platform & Growth

  • Developer Platforms & Tooling
  • Developer Experience (DevRel)
  • Platform Strategy
  • Ecosystem Design

Infrastructure

  • AWS / GCP / Azure
  • Kubernetes / Docker
  • CI/CD & DevOps
  • Payments & Compliance