Engineer · AI leader · Game developer
I lead engineering teams at Microsoft, obsess over fast software, and have been making games since I was ten. Lately, a few of them are played by AI.
I’m an adventurer and a coder with a love for science, technology and financial markets. Through a combination of luck and skill, I’ve forged a path from the US Navy to Silicon Valley while mostly being able to do things I enjoy.
01 / Work
By day I lead small teams in Microsoft’s Cloud & AI group, mostly on identity and security, where a feature that’s confidently wrong is a vulnerability. I care about clear designs, fast systems and teams that enjoy shipping together.
I lead and work with small teams building products across the full stack: UI, cloud-based backends, SQL and NoSQL datastores, microservices, zero-touch deployment and continuous delivery.
I co-chair a group of 100 machine-learning engineers, data scientists and AI researchers, exploring everything from ML infrastructure to generative AI for security and identity.
I use AI coding agents every day, inside a loop with clear specs and hard gates. One model implements, another reviews, and I make the call on every merge. The judgment stays human.
02 / Engineering
Twenty-plus years across client-server systems, distributed systems, high-performance code and game servers. I start with scalable, asynchronous designs, then measure until it’s fast. Fast, snappy software shows respect for people’s time.
A backtest across 1,500+ stocks, ten years and 40 algorithms, about 1.3 billion discrete steps. Algorithmic changes, caching and parallelism did the rest. “23 minutes to 23 seconds” is a regular kind of week.
Started at age 10 on a TI-82, simplifying math equations. Still writing code most days.
A perimeter-defense system fusing ground radar, satellite imagery and UAV video into a 3D world you could fly through with an Xbox controller. I built the peer-to-peer messaging backend and the C satellite comms.
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TradingView scripts ↗03 / After hours
A multiple-choice test tells you what a model knows. I wanted to see what it does: hold a plan for twenty turns, keep a treaty, ship a playable build by morning. So I build the games, set the rules, log everything and write up what happened.
Every player is a language model, issuing orders each turn under fog of war. Thirteen weeks of rule changes, and the reviews the models wrote about each other.
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Models built a medieval strategy game, then played it as rulers, generals and mercenaries, with a deterministic engine that replays every battle exactly.
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Same brief, same prompts, different coding agents. I play every build and keep score on who ships something fun before the deadline.
Open the series04 / Projects
I started making games before I knew it was a job, then spent years on the server side of online worlds. It’s the thread that runs through everything else I do.
LVL 01Age 10
My first game, written on a TI-82 with 28 kB of RAM, with an animated intro shaded using quadratic equations.
LVL 02Alphastorms
Lead server developer for an Ultima Online shard: a gamer’s dream of rulesets, player communities and server architecture. Hurricane Sandy took out the server along with its Louisiana host.
LVL 03Licensed MMO
Lead server developer. Designed a “cell” architecture that split the world into sub-shard units for dynamic instancing and load balancing.
LVL 04Community
Grew BIG from two people to more than a hundred, organizing hackathons and connecting developers with artists.
LVL 05In progress
A turn-based roguelike RPG, somewhere between FTL and Farscape, plus an MMORPG engine for multiplayer over distributed infrastructure.
LVL 06Now playing
Games built for, and increasingly by, AI models: a wargame, a medieval strategy game and a series of agent game jams.
05 / Off the clock
A startup I founded that analyzes stocks, futures, ETFs and crypto, generating trade decisions from live and backtested ML models.
Still adding features, and building up my art skills in Inkscape to draw the graphics myself.
A cyberpunk novel about a runner who becomes the target of a corporate hit and unravels a conspiracy while finding out why.
It re-ignited my hacker spirit: automating everything in Bash and hacking things together in C, C++, Go and Rust.
Trading is my passion: more than ten years in futures, stocks and crypto, both algorithmic and discretionary. My style is defensive, protecting capital above everything, a habit from building up from modest beginnings.
An explorer since childhood, I’ve picked up and moved to chase opportunities around the world, with a soulmate who shares the wanderlust. Travel keeps showing me what motivates people from every walk of life.
Winter climbing and summer hiking fuel my adventurous side. Each route asks for the same things engineering does: strategy, risk assessment and precise execution.
06 / Say hello
Interested in collaborating, talking about AI/ML or engineering leadership, or exploring opportunities? I’m always happy to hear from fellow technologists. My full résumé and project history are available on request.