Want to become the AI engineering expert on your team?

I help experienced software, backend, data, and ML engineers build real-world AI engineering skills, develop architectural judgment, and lead AI initiatives at their companies.

I'm a hands-on technical leader with 15+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, leading engineering teams, and developing AI products. I've also helped ML engineers at Series C+ companies advance toward Staff-level roles.

What I Can Help You Achieve

1. Master Production AI Engineering

Go beyond tutorials and textbook knowledge. We'll work on real engineering problems involving:
- RAG, retrieval pipelines, and context engineering
- AI agents, tool calling, and orchestration
- Agent harnesses and workflow design
- Evaluation frameworks, testing, and observability
- Reliability, scalability, latency, and cost optimization

My focus isn't teaching you the latest framework. It's developing the judgment to design, build, troubleshoot, and improve AI systems independently.

2. Become an AI Champion at Your Company

Want to be the engineer who drives AI adoption rather than just implements someone else's ideas?

I'll help you identify high-impact opportunities, design and prototype solutions, communicate technical trade-offs, and influence stakeholders. The goal is to position you as a trusted technical leader who can drive AI initiatives from concept to production.

3. Grow Into Staff+ Engineering and Technical Leadership

I also help experienced engineers navigate Staff+ career progression, strengthen system design and architectural skills, increase their organizational impact, and transition into engineering management.

About Me

I've worked across startups, scale-ups, and large enterprises, both as an individual contributor and an engineering leader managing teams of up to 20 people.

- Obin AI: Staff AI Engineer & FDE Tech Lead, deliver enterprise AI solution in financial industry
- Truewind.ai (YC W23): Head of Architecture, first engineering hire, seed to Series A
- Attentive: Engineering Manager, Core Messaging Platform
- Beeswax: Director of Engineering, Backend (acquired by Comcast)
- Betterment: Senior Engineering Manager, Trading
- Bloomberg: Team Lead, Trading Systems

My mentoring experience includes coaching three ML engineers pursuing Staff-level roles, two first-time engineering managers, a startup founder, and a Head of Data Architecture at a private equity firm.

I prefer **3–6 month engagements** focused on meaningful professional growth rather than short-term interview preparation.We'll develop a personalized roadmap, work on hands-on technical projects or real challenges from your job, and regularly review your architecture, design decisions, and progress.

Expect thoughtful feedback, challenging technical discussions, and practical guidance drawn from real engineering experience.