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Enterprise Architect & Systems Leader | AI Infrastructure, Real-Time Platforms & Distributed Systems @ Washington, DC
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Enterprise Architect, systems engineer, and hands-on technical leader with 20+ years of experience architecting distributed systems, low-latency streaming infrastructure, autonomous AI platforms, and high-scale applications. Director-level Enterprise Architect at Cvent, steering the organizational and technical transition to AI-native repositories and autonomous agent workflows; previously the senior-most Android-focused engineer on the Amazon Alexa Mobile Platform, pioneering agentic automation that drove a 3-engineer, 4-month migration of 600+ packages across 70+ distributed teams in separate VP orgs. First engineer at Jigsee, designing a proprietary adaptive-bitrate streaming protocol for low-bandwidth delivery plus the distributed cloud infrastructure behind it, from 0 to 100+ TB/month through acquisition by Vuclip. Works end to end across product, design, engineering and verification, on the view that once code generation stops being the constraint the bottleneck simply moves. Deep hands-on expertise spanning frontier AI models & evaluations, agent execution kernels, real-time media/WebSocket pipelines, and cross-organization engineering scale.
The strongest of my independent work: systems I designed, built, and shipped end to end, outside my employment. Open source and unpaid pro-bono only; neither represents paid employment.
An ebook framework that produces shipping apps
White-label framework generating branded iOS and Android reading apps from one codebase, with per-title configuration, multilingual typography, and offline audiobooks. One app released on both stores; two in TestFlight and Play internal testing.
Native EPUB infrastructure for Expo and React Native
A typed Swift, Kotlin, and TypeScript bridge to the official Readium toolkits, covering publication lifecycle, navigation, progress, typography, selection, highlights, search, accessibility, and diagnostics.
Multi-tenant patrol reporting with watermarked media
Public site and private client portal from one Cloudflare Worker. Nightly patrol reports with photo and video evidence; every media view is watermarked with the viewer’s name and logged. D1 for relational data, R2 with no public URLs, cron triggers, transactional email.
Role-aware operations portal with a financial subledger
Operations and customer portal spanning applicants, tenants, owners, vendors, finance staff and auditors. Invitation-only onboarding, TOTP multi-factor authentication, session management and rate controls, leasing and maintenance workflows, two-way conversation email, and a financial subledger.
Lead Android engineer on a five-year native reader
Native Android reader and recitation player with pre-populated SQLite for offline access, a Media3 playback session shared across phone, notification, Bluetooth and Android Auto, and custom multilingual typography. Two shipping Play Store variants from one codebase.
An auditable orchestration kernel for coding agents
Coordinates coding-agent CLIs (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Antigravity, Hermes) across discrete roles: orchestrator, plan critic, implementer, reviewer, and arbiter. Enforces hermetic test suites, Git worktrees, explicit quality verdicts, and human escalation before merge.
App-store presence, version-controlled with the app
A cross-AI agent skill and extension (Claude plugin, Kiro, Gemini extension) that inspects a mobile repository, executes the app with Maestro and Playwright, captures store-compliant screenshots, and generates Fastlane-validated App Store and Google Play metadata.
Remote continuation of live terminal sessions
A bidirectional relay carrying live Mac terminal sessions (iTerm2 natively over Protobuf, tmux) and coding-agent panes (Herdr) to iOS and Android, end-to-end encrypted through a self-hostable Cloudflare Worker. Input travels back the same way, so you keep typing into the session and keep working away from the machine; a push when a command finishes or an agent needs a decision only tells you when to look.
Measuring, gating, and improving the output of AI systems. The roles these sit within are detailed under experience.
Orchid · Bash · Git · Claude Code · Codex · Antigravity · Hermes
Architected an auditable, resumable kernel coordinating coding-agent CLIs across specialized roles (orchestrator, plan critic, implementer, reviewer, arbiter), enforcing hermetic worktree test suites, explicit quality verdicts, and automated escalation before merge.
Listing Kit · Claude plugin · Gemini extension · Maestro · Playwright · Fastlane
Built an agent skill that walks a mobile repository, learns how to run it, captures store-compliant screenshots, and assembles App Store and Google Play metadata versioned with the app; used to ship the author's own store releases.
Shellbell · React Native · Expo · Cloudflare Workers · WebSockets · Protobuf
Engineered an end-to-end encrypted relay that mirrors live terminal sessions to mobile and accepts input back, so work continues away from the machine; notifies when a command finishes or an agent blocks on a decision.
Mercor · Senior Software Engineer Expert · 2026
Authored software-engineering benchmark tasks and deterministic test suites for frontier-model evaluation; diagnosed failure modes, reasoning regressions, and edge-case behavior to harden code generation.
AI-assisted delivery at production scale — Shipped six production web platforms solo in 2026 through agent orchestration, including ~130,000 lines in about four weeks, with automated validation suites as non-negotiable acceptance gates.
McLean, VA · Mar 2026 - Present
Ottawa, ON; San Francisco Bay Area; Arlington, VA · Aug 2016 - Mar 2026
Senior Software Development Engineer, Alexa Mobile Platform (2023 - 2026) · Software Development Manager (2022 - 2023) · Senior Software Development Engineer, Alexa Mobile Foundation (2018 - 2022) · Software Development Engineer, Alexa Communications (2016 - 2018)
Ottawa, ON · Mar 2013 - Aug 2016
Client engagement through Macadamian; hired directly by BlackBerry eight months into the contract.
Ottawa, ON · Sep 2010 - Jun 2013
Contract engagement from Sep 2010, hired full-time Jan 2011 through Mar 2013, then part-time consulting for a further three months to support the transition to Vuclip.
Ottawa, ON · Jan 2008 - Jan 2011
Ottawa, ON · 2004 - 2008
Work completed independently outside my employment, separated by context: public open-source engineering and unpaid pro-bono systems.
public source code
Independent open-source engineering outside my employment; code and documentation public on GitHub.
Bash · Git · jq · Claude Code · Codex · Antigravity · Hermes
Auditable orchestration kernel coordinating coding agents across discrete roles (orchestrator, critic, implementer, reviewer, arbiter), with hermetic test suites, explicit verdicts, and human escalation.
React Native · Expo · Cloudflare Workers · WebSockets · Protobuf
Self-hostable, account-free terminal relay: an end-to-end encrypted Cloudflare Workers backend paired with a React Native client, with native iTerm2 support over Protobuf and tmux integration; the mobile client can type back into the session, not just watch it.
AI agent skill · Claude Plugin · Gemini Extension · Maestro · Fastlane
Cross-AI workflow that captures store-compliant screenshots, assembles App Store and Google Play metadata, validates assets, and versions the listing with the app.
Swift · Kotlin · TypeScript · Readium · Expo
Native EPUB foundation for Expo and React Native with typed contracts for lifecycle, navigation, typography, selection, search, and accessibility.
volunteer · unpaid
Unpaid pro-bono engineering completed independently outside my employment for nonprofit and community organizations.
Unpaid · 2025 - Present · Google Apps Script · Google Gemini API
Turns raw monthly reporting workbooks into 58+ personalized chapter feedback emails and a national executive summary, with multi-stage Gemini API anomaly detection and idempotent delivery.
Unpaid · 2025 - Present · PHP · MySQL · AWS SES · Playwright · PHPUnit
Solo-led portal digitizing annual declarations for thousands of nonprofit members, with e-signing, role-scoped review, identity migration, batch reports, and AWS SES.
Unpaid · 2025 - Present · Android · Kotlin · OpenAI Whisper · Google Chirp
Mobile voice-search pipeline transcribing spoken Arabic via Whisper and Chirp speech-to-text models, with phonetic transliteration and semantic vector matching.
Unpaid · 2025 - Present · Google Apps Script · Google Sheets API
Batch-prepared reporting and review web application featuring real-time review queues, version freshness verification, role-based access gates, and automated audit logging.
Software Engineering, Entrepreneurship & Management option, Co-op program · 2002 - 2007
English (native/bilingual) · French (native/bilingual) · Urdu (professional)
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