I build the systems revenue and operations run on, and the AI inside them.

Two skill stacks that don’t often overlap.

AI teams often hire engineers who have never owned a CRM pipeline or a billing reconciliation. Operations teams often hire generalists who have never shipped an evaluated agent system into production.

I sit between those lanes. Ten-plus years owning the systems that move work from a new lead to a paid invoice is the base layer: most recently as Head of Technology at Real News Public Relations, sole technical owner across six SaaS platforms and eight-plus production systems since 2018. Internal tools, applied AI, eval harnesses, and human review are the newer layer on top.

Those ten years were at a family-owned PR firm here in Dallas, where I’m still Head of Technology. Small company, no other engineers. When billing broke or a show didn’t air, it was mine to fix, and the people affected sat down the hall. I like that kind of ownership, and I like building tools the people around me actually use.