Engineering Manager + Staff Software Engineer

Rails engineering leadership for teams that need product velocity and production judgment.

I help teams modernize Rails platforms, ship customer-facing product work, and turn operational pain into reliable systems that hold up in production.

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Available for high-impact engineering leadership
$ ship --reliable --rails --team-aware
14+ Years building web products
Staff Architecture and execution
EM Team delivery and alignment
AI Platform integration

Selected Teams

Places I have helped ship real software.

The proof is in production: identity verification, recruiting platforms, marine service operations, and workflow systems where reliability, data quality, and delivery discipline mattered after launch.

ID.me logo

Trust workflows, marketplace systems, metrics, OAuth, and identity product work.

Yello logo

Recruiting platform leadership, team delivery, reliability work, and practical AI integration.

MarineMax logo

Marine service operations, customer-facing systems, reporting, and acquisition-era platform work.

Boatyard logo

Service workflow software, integrations, operational tooling, and the kind of details customers actually notice.

Platform Architecture Rails applications, APIs, data models, and service boundaries that survive real product pressure.
Team Execution Hands-on leadership across planning, delivery, mentoring, escalation, and stakeholder alignment.
Reliability Work Production incidents, regression coverage, feature flags, observability, and durable operational fixes.

What I Do

Practical engineering leadership from unclear problem to production result.

Turn complex workflows into product capability

I model the business rules, simplify the data paths, and build Rails features that make teams faster without hiding the real edge cases.

Stabilize and modernize the platform

I improve reliability, deployment shape, test coverage, and incident response without losing sight of delivery.

Lead through ambiguity

I keep product, support, executives, and engineers aligned while turning fuzzy problems into shippable slices.

Role Fit

Where I add leverage quickly.

Engineering Manager Hands-on manager for Rails, platform, product engineering, recruiting technology, and distributed teams.
Staff Rails Engineer Technical lead for Ruby on Rails architecture, PostgreSQL data models, APIs, integrations, and production reliability.
AI Platform Delivery Practical LLM and AWS Bedrock integration for summaries, insights, enterprise workflows, and operator tooling.

Career Snapshot

Built in high-trust, high-velocity environments.

From ID.me identity workflows to Yello.co recruiting platforms, I have worked where reliability, data quality, and product judgement all matter at the same time.

2024 - 2026 Engineering Manager, Yello.co
2022 - 2024 Staff Software Engineer, Yello.co
2018 - 2021 Head of Engineering, Boatyard; Senior Software Engineer, MarineMax
2015 - 2018 Senior Software Engineer, Wynbi
2013 - 2015 Software Engineer, ID.me