👋 About
I'm the Head of Engineering at Honor Education,where I'm spending my days building an excellent engineering team/platform and leading the effort to leverage AI effectively. I'm not interested in impressive demos or using AI for using AI's sake—I'm focused on shipping tools that work well while ensuring our usage of AI is in service of human thriving and cognitive fitness.
My journey in eng started in 2009 when I got curious about "viewing page source" and fell in love with not only designing for the web, but building it. Since then, I've progressed through companies ranging from large enterprises to innovative startups, including Ameriprise Financial, VSCO, and DocuSign.
These days, I spend my time working at Honor Education—from native clients to Java backends, with TypeScript, Python, and AI models in between. I'm passionate about the intersection of engineering leadership and cutting-edge AI technology.
When I'm not writing code or thinking about transformers, self-attention, and how AI fits into learning you can find me on my bike, hanging out in great coffee shops or frequenting all the great breweries in Minneapolis, MN.
💼 What I Do
Engineering Leadership
Theory and practice around building and leading excellent engineering teams
AI Thinking and Leadership
Exploring a human-centered approach to leveraging AI in day-to-day life.
Full-Stack Development
Architecting and building scalable systems from native apps to backend services.
Research & Innovation
Exploring cutting-edge technologies and translating research into production systems.
Ride Bikes
Getting away from screens and doing what I love with the person I love.
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2026-Present
Head of Engineering - Honor Education
Building an effective engineering team at Honor. The day-to-day work is focused on technical excellence, building a strong learning culture and figuring out how to thrive in a world where AI engineering has become ubiquitous.
2025-Present
Head of AI - Honor Education
Working as a head of AI with Honor. Sorting out how to leverage AI effectively on the platform and in our day to day work.
2024-Present
Principal Software Engineer - Honor Education
Working as a principal software engineer with Honor. Working across the entire stack and leading the team in building out the Honor platform.
2022-2024
Lead Web Engineer - Honor Education
Working as a founding web-engineer responsible for building the apps that instituions use to craft their course content as well as building the apps students use to consume. Spent most of my time building in Next with TypeScript and crafting APIs using Node and Java hitting a Postgres DB all deployed on AWS infra.
2020-2022
Lead Web Engineer - DocuSign
Leading a team of engineers who built a React component library used to power apps across the enterprise. Led the transition to TypeScript which led to easier refactors with less regressions. Also, implemented a robust CI/CD pipeline that reduced developer effort required for releasing as well as making it easier for the flaghsip apps to upgrade. Build out a hiring pipeline and helped build the team culture.
2019-2020
Senior Engineering Manager - VSCO
Led migration from Flow to TypeScript. Led integration of new HR software into website to automate job postings. Worked with product/creative to implement custom CMS for company blog.
2013-2019
Director - Front End Engineering - Ameriprise Financial
Started as only front-end engineer in organization and grew team to 25 engineers. Team was responsible for building out all advisor facing applications used to create and maintain business. Led migration to SPA architecture. Implemented hiring best practices. Worked with staff engineers to utilize TypeScript in the codebase. Led enterprise in choosing React as the standard framework.