Resume

Summary

Engineering executive and founder with 15+ years building and scaling technology organizations, and still hands-on in the code. Led a 46-person organization at SRTX (YC W18, Series C) as its top technical executive and architected Cortex, the platform that ran its factory, then brought material production in-house on top of it. Technical co-founder of Upverter (YC W11): built the platform, raised $3.5M in venture funding, led sales for a year, and helped take the company through to acquisition by Altium. Since January 2026, shipping AI products solo with AI coding agents, which has reshaped my view of team size, code review, and what a small senior team can deliver. Found product-market fit from zero twice, with Upverter and EE Concierge, then scaled both, building the product and the team at the same time.

Experience

Founder

Jan 2026 - Present

Lunoa Labs Inc. · Toronto, ON

Building AI products end to end as the only engineer, to learn first-hand what a small team can ship now that the tooling has changed.

  • Built Headless HQ, a multi-agent platform where an HQ agent routes a company's operational work to specialist teams (a six-agent marketing team and a four-agent M&A diligence team are the deepest), behind an approval gate the customer sets: full review, a spending threshold, or autonomous.
  • Launched PageWeaver, a paid AI storybook product with per-workload model routing across five AI providers, Stripe billing, and print fulfillment.
  • Built Get Indexed, which measures how often ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity cite a brand, using majority voting across repeated LLM queries to steady noisy answers.
  • Built FOUNDRY, a mineral-prospectivity ML model for the Canadian Shield. Designed adversarial validation that confirmed it for gold and ruled it out for three other commodities.
  • Designed a development process for AI coding agents: specs and plans reviewed before code, then parallel specialist and adversarial agent reviews before each merge.

Executive Vice President of Technology / Vice President of Technology

Feb 2022 - Oct 2025

SRTX (Makers of Sheertex) · Y Combinator W18, Series C, B Corp

Joined as VP of Technology to build the engineering function and was promoted to EVP in June 2024, operating as SRTX's top technical executive (effectively the CTO) and reporting first to the President, then to the CEO. Grew and led a 46-person organization across software, automation engineering, material science, and IT, with remote teams in Canada and Europe.

  • Architected Cortex and built it with my team as a complete rewrite of the earlier system. It became the company's system of record for production control, real-time data, ML quality inspection, and ERP, replacing 3 tools and a stack of paper and Excel processes.
  • Moved production onto Cortex's work-order control, then brought material production in-house on top of it, connected and automated by Cortex.
  • Replaced Snowflake with a real-time pipeline built into Cortex. Merged the standalone data team into the platform team.
  • Grew the software team from 2 to 9, adding a product owner and project manager and promoting an engineer into a lead role.
  • Ran GCP infrastructure and DevOps on a weekly release schedule plus hotfixes timed around live manufacturing.
  • Set the two-to-three-year technology roadmap with the executive team and aligned all four departments behind one platform strategy.
  • Shipped ML visual defect detection on the production line.

Vice President of Product, Upverter

Aug 2017 - Jan 2022

Altium

VP of Product for the Upverter product line after the acquisition, responsible for the product and engineering side of EE Concierge and Octopart's component-model business, working alongside Altium's sales team.

  • Launched and scaled EE Concierge inside Octopart, an expert model-creation service that still runs within Altium.
  • Built a two-sided model business where part manufacturers paid to publish public component models and Altium's largest enterprise customers paid for private ones.
  • Shipped Electrical Models on Octopart.

Technical Co-Founder

Feb 2011 - Aug 2017

Upverter · Y Combinator W11

Technical co-founder of a cloud-based electronic hardware design platform, from Y Combinator to acquisition by Altium. Built the technology with one of my two co-founders, led sales for a year, and covered whatever else the company needed.

  • Grew the platform from 0 to 30,000+ users and the company from 3 founders to a 17-person team.
  • Raised $3.5M in venture funding.
  • Built and ran the multi-tenant SaaS platform on AWS. Took the company through SOC 2.

Director of Technology

Jan 2010 - Feb 2011

Trend Hunter

  • Led a 4-person engineering team and scaled the platform during a period of rapid traffic growth.

Early Career

Process Control Development, Aegis Technical Systems (2007) · Verification Engineer, Integrated Device Technology (2007) · Application Developer, Ronald A. Chisholm (2006)

Skills

Leadership

Scaling engineering orgs (46 people, four disciplines), Remote teams across Canada and Europe, Mentoring managers and tech leads, Hiring, Seed through Series C, Finding product-market fit, Founder through acquisition

Technical

Platform architecture, GCP and AWS, Real-time data pipelines, ML in production, AI coding agents and review process, CI/CD and DevOps, SOC 2, Python, TypeScript, Postgres