About Me

Learning-driven engineering leader with 26+ years building reliable platforms and teams (8+ years at Amazon). I turn ambiguous ideas into shipped systems using small, reversible steps and clear guardrails. Open to Director/Head of Engineering (full-time) and selective fractional/advisory work with PE operators, founders, and scaling orgs. Also: a wannabe founder—always looking for the coolest startup in the world.

Technology • Tinkering • Team-building

Whiteboard sketches and instrumentation notes

I design simple, well-instrumented systems and make the “right way” the easy way. Feature flags, canary releases, service-level goals, and “what changed?” telemetry keep risk low and learning high. I tinker to find leverage—better tooling, automation, and smoother developer workflows—and I build teams that own outcomes: clear interfaces, short design notes and decision logs, sensible checks in continuous integration, and a weekly rhythm that rewards focus over heroics. Current interests & hands-on tinkering: cloud platforms, AI/LLM exploration, mobile app prototypes, and microservice patterns that stay maintainable.

Driven By: Inspiration • Innovation • Impact

Laptop dashboards and build logs

Curiosity sparks the ideas; mechanisms make them real. I frame problems plainly, prototype fast, and de-risk with measurable trials—then scale what works. Impact is the bar: faster iteration, lower cost to serve, quieter operations. I’m drawn to missions that inspire, solutions that innovate without hand-waving, and roadmaps that turn momentum into durable results.

If you’re building something bold, let’s talk.

I Bring: Clarity • Autonomy • Joint Ownership

Team collaboration and planning

I help teams and organizations achieve technical excellence and strategic clarity by making outcomes plain—clear goals, mapped stakeholders, and a shared definition of “good” with real owners. I translate complex technical designs into actionable roadmaps, communicate them to execs and engineers, and sequence work so value lands early. We optimize the value stream—short feedback loops, less toil—and ship in safe, reversible steps with guardrails and instrumentation. And we build joint ownership with visible measures, one scoreboard, and a steady cadence of demos and risk reviews so alignment sticks and the team shares the win.


TCS

Assistant Systems Engineer

Full-stack Java/J2EE, Oracle PL/SQL; end-to-end SDLC foundation.

1998 - 2001

Philips Healthcare

EM & Sr. Engineer

Led medical imaging/RIS/PACS teams; moved from 2-year cycles to ~6 months; QA defects ↓ ~65%.

2001 - 2008

Infosys

Principal Consultant

Advised enterprise programs (~200+ engineers) on iterative roadmaps and reporting to speed time-to-value.

2008 - 2011

Citrix

SD Program Manager

Coordinated 80+ engineers across time zones for GoTo products; rescued a stalled launch; localized releases for CN/JP.

2011 - 2016

AppFolio

Sr. Agile PM

Kanban + CD; story cycle time 20 → 3 days; shipped a new SaaS add-on from concept to GA in six months.

2016 - 2017

Amazon

SDM III, Whole Foods/Amazon/Audible

Led ~20-person teams; migrated legacy to AWS microservices across 500+ stores; built scaled distributed systems and platforms; cut deploy time ~40%; added SOX-aligned controls and rollback safety.

2017 - 2025

CohesionStack / Advisory

Engineering Leader & Builder

Platform modernization, delivery discipline, and calm execution for PE operators, founders, and scaling orgs.

2025 - Present
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