Projects
The core of what I do is building products 0→1 as a founding or early engineer—shaping direction through ambiguity, staying product-minded, and helping hire, coach, and lead along the way. Oscilar is where that energy goes today. Below that are pet projects: where I take something I love, like coaching my kids or real estate, and bring the tech I work in to it—my way of exploring outside the day job.
Building 0→1
Founding and early-engineer roles, past and present—working through ambiguity, staying product-minded, and helping hire, coach, and lead.
Oscilar: Founding Engineer (0 to 1)
Modern fintechs need sophisticated, real-time risk and fraud management that can scale without a massive team.
My full-time work, and where most of my energy goes. As a founding team member I've built Oscilar's AI Risk Decisioning platform from an empty repo—leading the agentic AI team and owning the foundations that make it enterprise-ready.
Yugabyte: Founding Engineer, Distributed SQL
An early-stage database startup needed to turn a powerful distributed SQL engine into something developers could actually deploy, operate, and love.
An early engineer helping grow a distributed SQL database from startup to enterprise platform. I led the user-experience team and became the go-to for the gnarly deployment and infrastructure problems.
Facebook: First Engineer, Business Development
Facebook's business-development org needed engineering from the ground up—internal products and integrations to run operations—and, later, consumer products for millions of businesses.
First engineer on Facebook's Business Development team, building the internal systems and integrations that ran BD from scratch—then moving into consumer product on the Pages team (Brand Pages, Deals).
Pet projects
At the intersection of what I love and the tech I work in—my way of keeping up and exploring things I otherwise couldn't.
CoachMyChess: AI for Chess Parents & Kids
Parents in tournament parking lots have no idea how their kids are actually progressing or what they should practice next.
A pet project at the intersection of two things I love: coaching my kids and building with AI. It turns their real games from Chess.com and Lichess into coaching a kid—and a non-chess-playing parent—can actually use.
OfferPro.ai: AI-Powered Real Estate Offer Management
Real estate agents are drowning in PDF offers and manual data entry, making it hard to compare deals quickly.
A pet project born from my own real-estate investing. An AI tool that reads messy PDF offers, extracts the terms, and does the tedious comparison work for agents—so they can get back to their clients.