First and sole platform engineer at FortressIQ. Built Neo from scratch in 3 weeks, replacing an offshore prototype — every foundational architecture decision the product ran on — through a $30M Series B at >$100M valuation and acquisition by Automation Anywhere — was mine.
Self-initiated a full pipeline replacement after 11 months of production operation revealed reliability limitations in the third-party forwarding layer. Designed and built a native C# forwarding client with retry policies, UUID-based worker identity, and concurrent queue with backpressure — the largest changeset in the repository's history.
Defined the data contract between the agent and backend: emitted fields, validation rules, aggregation semantics, and tenant identity enforcement — an interface that remained stable through 2025.
Designed portable-mode and config-as-valve architecture so binary, configuration, and logs traveled together as one self-explaining artifact — a deployment pattern still in production six years later.