About Me
I build and ship enterprise AI platforms at scale.
As Director & Group Lead, Agentic AI at Appian since February 2025, I led the teams that delivered Agent Studio from beta to general availability in Appian 25.4. I combine manager-of-managers leadership with hands-on architecture and prototyping, including personally building an MCP Server prototype.
I led AI-assisted development rollout to 800 engineers in six months, personally building Terraform/AWS infrastructure and co-developing deployment controls. Previously, I led a 46-person SRE organization through a reliability turnaround and cloud-platform work serving 1,200+ enterprise customers across 21 regions.
Explore the two current resumes →
- Led the teams that delivered Agent Studio from beta to GA. Restructured four teams using Team Topologies and shared API boundaries for parallel delivery.
- Scaled AI-assisted development across an 800-person engineering org — built the Terraform/AWS infrastructure myself.
- Rated "Exceptional" (top 15%) in the 2025 and H1 2026 review cycles. Appian Impact Award in December 2025 for cross-organizational AI adoption.
- 10+ years of cloud and AWS experience; AWS Solutions Architect – Professional credential earned June 2017
- Led five-squad groups of approximately 50 direct and indirect reports; zero regretted attrition during my SRE tenure
- MS Computer Science, Georgia Tech — Machine Learning and Computing Systems focus, 4.0 GPA; completed December 2024 while working full-time
- One of the first engineers on Appian's Cloud Platform team in 2014. Led monolith-to-cloud-native migration (2022-2023) serving 1,200+ enterprise customers.
- Completed Appian MBA — an invite-only senior leadership development program.
Technology Skills
- AI platforms — Led enterprise agent delivery; co-developed architecture for memory, guardrails, MCP, execution, and tools. Hands-on prototyping, API design, and AI-assisted development.
- Graduate machine-learning projects — supervised and unsupervised learning, randomized optimization, and custom reinforcement-learning solvers
- Cloud engineering — AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, SQL, observability, secure migration tooling, and operational automation.
- BSc. Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech — 2014
- Software — Python, Java, C/C++/C#
- Public GitHub Contributions
- Strong foundations and extensive experience with Networking, Security, Computer Architecture and Algorithms.
Background
- Graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with an MSc in Computer Science and BSc in Computer Engineering.
- I am extremely passionate about new technologies and love innovating.
- Enjoy scuba diving, traveling, taking part in volunteering organizations, photography and meeting new people.
Values and Principles
- Time and Change
- Happiness of Individuals/People Around Me
- Personal Health
- Pure Honesty
- Hard Work
- Mistakes and Failures
- Best Ideas Win and Meritocracy
- Life
Leadership Updates
2026 updates: Helped deliver Agent Chat GA in Appian 26.6 with critical late-stage support; the product subsequently reached its first three production customers. I also implemented a parallel AI-native development lifecycle (AI-DLC) within the Agentic AI group, coaching teams on agentic tools in their daily work.
Feb 2025–present: Director & Group Lead, Agentic AI. Four-team organization design, reusable agentic services, hands-on MCP prototyping, and architecture reviews. Explore Agent Studio →
Jan 2024–Jan 2025: Director & Group Lead, SRE. Led five teams and five managers, 46 people in total, through a CTO-sponsored reliability turnaround.
Apr–Dec 2023: Director & Group Lead, Cloud Services & Platform Engineering. Previously Senior Software Engineering Manager with functional group-lead responsibility from Jan 2022–Mar 2023.
Oct 2020–Jan 2022: Senior Cloud Software Manager, leading 12 engineers with six direct reports. Previously Lead Cloud Engineer for Shared Infrastructure, Apr 2018–Oct 2020.
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