Data engineering leader· Chicago
I build data platforms and lead the teams behind them, and I've worked every layer underneath. I started in the data centers at CME Group, spent eight years on the databases of a high-frequency options market maker, then built the core data platforms at Outcome Health, Lob, and Autograph. These days I build golf products at Greenside Ventures.
Feb 2025 – Now
Founder
Digital product studio and holding company in golf
Solo founder. It's a passion project I run on the side. Shipped GolfBod, the gym app for golfers, with an LLM pipeline that writes each golfer's training program and a coaching product for teaching pros. Putt Pitch Drive is out on iOS and Android.
TypeScript · React Native · Expo · Supabase · LLMs · Stripe
Aug 2022 – Feb 20252y 7m
Tech Lead, Data
Tom Brady's digital sports fandom startup (merged with Future, 2025)
First data hire after the $170M Series B. Built the company's first data platform, with pipelines in production by day 60, then hired two senior engineers. About a third of the company used the self-service analytics.
Snowflake · dbt · Dagster · Fivetran · Hex · Lightdash · MongoDB · Neo4j · PostgreSQL
Apr 2021 – Aug 20221y 5m
Staff Software Engineer, Data
Y Combinator-backed mail API startup
Data lead. Rebuilt the core data infrastructure as one platform, with ingestion moved off Fivetran onto our own jobs in Airflow and the core data model redesigned as Kimball-style facts and dimensions in dbt. Every Looker dashboard in the company ran on it.
Airflow · dbt · Redshift · Looker · Kinesis · S3
Feb 2017 – May 20214y 4m
Lead Data Engineer
Chicago unicorn health tech startup (merged with PatientPoint, 2021)
Designed and built the company's core data platform, batch and streaming, out of a Redshift setup DevOps had run on the side, and later moved it to Snowflake. Joined before there was a data team, then co-founded one and hired eight people into it.
Python · Redshift · Snowflake · Airflow · Confluent Kafka · Spark · S3
Apr 2016 – Now
ContractHead of Technology
Financial planning startup focused on equity compensation, socially responsible investing, and empowering women entrepreneurs
Part-time head of all the firm's technology, reporting to the CEO. Moved the CRM from Redtail to Salesforce. Brought in Viktor, an AI agent, and built its skills for meeting prep, follow-up, and data updates.
Salesforce · Black Diamond · Viktor
Jan 2009 – Feb 20178y 2m
Lead Database Administrator
High-frequency options market maker
Started in operations, moved to the data team, and ended up leading it. Kept 75+ TB of market data running and carried the pager overnight so trading could start on time each morning.
SQL Server · MongoDB · Cassandra · Vertica · Redshift · RDS
Jul 2005 – Dec 20083y 6m
Infrastructure Engineer II
World's largest derivatives exchange
Data center infrastructure. Built the team's app for planning changes and tracking physical assets down to the cable path.