Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
Building AI agent infrastructure:
• Agent “arenas” for live, market-driven evals
• Repayable states & traces to enable improve agent context engineering
• Full stack APIs & UIs for user / agent management & discoverability
2022 — 2024
2022 — 2024
Ecosystem growth & software development to promote:
• Decentralized SQL database (EVM-driven ACLs & offchain indexing / queries)
• Decentralized object storage (S3 compatible), built as a hierarchical subnet L2 chain with erasure coded blobs
2021 — 2022
Ethereum
• Blockchain research & development, focusing on the Ethereum consensus layer as part of the Merge
• Contributed to an implementation of the Ethereum consensus specification in Rust (primarily by adding the epoch processing component)
2016 — 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
FourKites is a supply chain visibility startup that provides real-time shipment tracking and predictive, Machine Learning insights. By acting as the fabric between hundreds of disparate entities and systems, companies helps increase operational efficiencies and reduce costs.
Role focus: to execute successful proof-of-concepts while operating in ad-hoc roles across nearly all functions, including Integration Engineer (API or XML integration design/build/test/deploy), Implementation Manager (project management & scoping), and post-implementation Support and Product (managing enhancement requests & client communication with issues/timelines).
Additional experience:
• Original <25 employees, as the company has scaled to 500+ (through Series A, B, C) + acquisition
• Pitched software capabilities to technical and non-technical Executive stakeholders at Fortune 500 companies, often developing value-based ROI through digital strategy workshops
• Technical lead during the pre-sales process (discovery, scope, architect) and worked cross-functionally with Product and Operations to ensure Proof-of-Concept (POC) & post-sales success
• Managed the integration build/test/deploys (APIs or XML/flat files over FTP/SFTP) and wrote scripts (Ruby, Python) to enable successful POCs with client’s systems (e.g., OTM, SAP, etc.)
• Served roles across most functions in ad-hoc capacities – Sales, Integration Engineering, Implementation, Product, Support ¬– as part of the “early” startup phase
Previous roles: Operations Associate (Nov. 2016 - Jan. 2017); Operations Trainer (Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2017)
2015 — 2016
2015 — 2016
Chicago, IL
Hitachi Consulting is a mid-size consulting firm that offers consulting services as well as industrial & IoT solutions (via their parent Fortune 500 conglomerate, Hitachi Global)
Role focus: IoT and management/strategy consulting functions, including the following projects:
• Fortune 500 telecommunications companies required the design and implementation of process change management & training strategies amidst M&A activities
• Researched and recommended an IoT strategy and framework for Global Fortune 50 automotive manufacturer to be adopted by Global CIOs
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science
Crystal Lake South High School