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Fractional CTO | Engineering Leadership | Technology Product & Vision | Full Stack Development | Franchise Owner | Team Building & Development


AI’s Flaws are a secret weapon for growth - here’s why

AI’s Flaws are a Secret Weapon for Growth - Here’s Why

Elevated Coding - an AI approach to grow your skills

June 16, 2025


Fractional CTO AI Superpower

How AI Supercharges a Fractional CTO to Deliver like a Full Dev Team

How I’ve been able to use different AI coding tools to supercharge my fractional CTO skills

May 29, 2025


Future of CS Education

Reflections on the future of introductory CS classes

My thoughts after being a section leader for Stanford’s introductory Code in Place program and investigating different AI coding tools

May 23, 2025


AI Scrapers

How do GitHub Copilot and Cursor compare as web scrapers?

Taking two popular code generation tools for a spin

April 24, 2025


Heyday Kirkland

How a Tech Leader Ventured Into a Franchise Ownership

How I went about opening a skincare franchsie as a tech leader

April 1, 2025


Big Tech Transition

How Being a Startup Cofounder helped my Big Tech Transition

Leadership lessons learned on my journey from a startup to a large tech organization

May 1, 2023


The Child Care Concierge

Why Your Startup Should Invest in a Strong Technical Foundation

Make your pivots easier by taking some design time upfront

Feb 15, 2022


Advice from an industry veteran

Advice from a Developer, Industry Executive, and Startup CTO

Summary from an Ask Me Anything session from a section leader in Stanford’s Code In Place program

July 16, 2020


LegUp's Serverless architecture for processing e-mails

What you need to know to build a serverless communication system

How our startup designed an event-driven architecture to automate e-mails in a cost effective way

June 9, 2020


LegUp Cofounders

Lessons Learned from my Transition to Startup CTO

My story of venturing out from a Corporate VP role

Jan 23, 2020


Alexa Development 101, photo courtesy of Mindspand

Teach What you Know to Learn it Better

What I learned by leading an Alexa-development workshop

Dec 4, 2019


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Top 5 benefits of the Jargon SDK for Voice Content Management

Top reasons to adopt the Jargon SDK for your voice applications

Jan 28, 2019