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