20+ years building platforms, leading teams, and shipping products for some of the biggest brands in retail and media.
Currently Chief Technology Officer at Wolfe, the Pittsburgh gifting company behind PerfectGift, Gift Card Granny, Giftya, and Give InKind.
Previously SVP and Chief Technology Officer at Branding Brand, where I joined as the second engineer and grew to lead 100+ engineers behind an e-commerce platform serving 10 million daily active users and $12B+ in annual transactions. Before that, computer vision and video indexing at Digitalsmiths (acquired by TiVo).
Works in TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Swift · Objective-C · C · C++ · Java · PHP
Builds on AWS · Azure · GCP · Kubernetes · Pulumi · Terraform · Node.js · React · React Native · iOS · macOS · Android · Linux
Codes with Claude Code · agentic coding workflows · AI-assisted code review · and a good old-fashioned keyboard
Patents US 11,800,169 video metadata for ad placement · US 8,380,045 robust video signatures · US 8,341,516 optimal website transcoding



