first deployment→dependable product→growing at scale
I’m a product leader who likes to go where the hard problems and the good people are.
Finding patterns through the noise.
Every industry I’ve worked in looked different on the surface. Underneath, the same patterns kept showing up.
In consumer and digital, customers vote with every click. I learned to read the signal in all that data: what makes people convert, and what makes them come back.
In defense and civic tech, the noise is everything that gets in an operator’s way. I learned to build for people when failure isn’t an option.
In physical AI, the noise is the real world itself. That’s where I put both patterns to work: technology that has to perform every shift.
Where I’ve been, and how I left it better.
Kodiak AIWe proved the value of bringing autonomy into a business that already runs: driverless trucks working alongside human-driven fleets, and a clear picture of how a customer actually adopts this technology, from the first load to the operating changes, trust, and economics that follow.
Defense Digital Service · U.S. Dept. of DefenseThrough the Defense Digital Service, I helped operators complete their missions on a cyber-hardened commercial drone platform, building features alongside the people flying them so security made the job easier, not harder.
I owned various parts of the funnel (acquisition, conversion, and retention) across established and growing brands, and led teams to deliver against revenue goals while growing brand and trust within natively owned ecosystems.
How do things work? Why do people use them the way they do?
Why do customers drop off before checkout? What stops a servicemember from getting a drone ready to fly? What makes a business hesitate to run driverless trucks? The most interesting answer is rarely the technology. It’s the people using it, and what they need to trust it. Outside of work, that curiosity takes me around San Francisco on my Vespa, out among the flora and fauna, often halfway through a bag of chips.