My Story
I'm a builder at heart — of products, of companies, and of the teams that make them. After two decades shipping software across gaming, crypto, and consumer startups, I'm focused on the defining shift of this decade: building AI-native teams, where AI is a teammate and the systems are designed around what that makes possible.
My strength has always been the same — figuring out what a company actually needs at its stage, and relentlessly focusing the team on solving exactly that.
About Me
I'm an engineering and product leader based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, at 22 I packed up a giant laptop and the rest of my belongings (not much) and moved to California. I've since built teams and products from Los Angeles to Austin and Chicago, and today I live with my wife Erin and dog Isabella in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
My Toolkit
AI-assisted engineering, LLMs & agents, RAG, evals & guardrails, product strategy, 1:1s & OKRs, servant leadership, React, TypeScript, Rust, Elixir, Solidity, Unreal Engine 5.
Career Highlights
Chief Technology Officer
Lead engineering and technical strategy across two flagship titles — Pirate Nation, the world's largest fully on-chain game, and Shiba Story Go, a Unity idle RPG shipped on iOS and Android in 23 languages. My real work has been rebuilding the engineering and art org for an AI-first world: rather than bolting AI on, I restructured roles and workflows so engineers and artists direct and review AI output instead of producing everything by hand. That collapses the gap between idea and shipped feature, letting a small, senior team outpace the content treadmill that grinds down most live games. We run AI automation loops across the studio — ad-spend and creative testing, day-one localization in 23 languages, and automated code and content review.
Head of Engineering
Built the foundations of a fully on-chain RPG. I architected two of the highest-throughput Ethereum L2 rollups in production, multichain sync infrastructure for gaming at scale, and turned an in-house VRF into a product spanning eight blockchain networks.
Board Member
Board member at CoinFello — the most powerful AI agent for research, execution, and DeFi automation. I advise on AI and product strategy as the team builds autonomous agents for onchain finance.
Founder & CTO
I founded and ran Optic Power, a consulting company focused on AI, gaming, and blockchain — where I architected a machine-learning engine for fraud detection. It was one of the most challenging chapters of my career — I wore every hat. From being one of two people and the only coder, I grew the company to nearly 300, evolving my role at each stage: from IC, to EM, to putting in real structure — skill competencies, recruiting engineering leaders, and setting a culture of leadership and growth.
Senior Software Engineer
My love of esports and games culminated as tech lead on the League of Legends live stats team. I built broadcast tech I still love seeing on air, helped younger engineers blossom, and partnered with recruiting to vet candidates across esports and engineering at Riot.
CTO
At Curious Minds I shipped countless startup ideas and built engineering teams across a huge range of technologies — highlights include the first two-factor auth at TeleSign and the video conferencing at Ringadoc.
