Recent work

Early-stage teams I've worked with across go-to-market, observability, and developer tools for AI.

Work with me
Y Combinator

Go-to-market

Stealth (YC)

Modeled MRR, usage, and billing backward from revenue targets, and turned it into an actionable launch GTM plan with a clear timeline and tasks.

Observability

LM Studio

Expanded the observability stack with Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine and a custom dashboard, so the team finds and fixes production issues before customers report them.

AI o11y tools

Tero

Built the original CLI for finding and fixing telemetry waste, on a Zig policy engine, so engineers can see which logs are waste and drop them in Datadog.

Before freelancing

  • Jazz.tools Infra at a local-first database & sync engine

    I designed and built a centralized OTel Collector that intercepts telemetry before it leaves the cluster. Splitting data by type let us filter and sanitize metrics before sending them to Grafana. It became the foundation the team used for usage-based billing.

  • Fly.io Platform & DevEx at a multi-region PaaS on Firecracker microVMs

    I built the v1 devex for Fly Machines, including a scheduling primitive for machine workloads and visibility into machine health in the kernel init process. The work spanned CLI, API, and dashboard, in Go, Rust, and Elixir.

  • Netlify DevRel & edge platform at a Git-based deploy platform & edge CDN

    I championed the JAMstack through talks, demos, and technical blog posts. I was also embedded on the platform team to rebuild the CDN edge logic and the redirects engine.

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