I'm a CTO and software engineer, currently running a Financial Technology company (a ‘FinTech’) that I co-founded.

Formerly, I worked at the Digital practice of a big, fancy-pants management-consulting firm. We built some amazing apps used by millions of people, and also helped organizations transform their team, culture, tools & practices for the digital era.

I was also CTO at Generation, a global non-profit organization (NGO) working to create employment opportunities for young people, and for those displaced by economic change.

As a hands-on engineer, I specialize(d) in product development on the cloud and using open-source tech, especially a lot of Javascript, with a unique spike in React-Native. But… I use a lot of other tools, too.

I dabble in writing, and teaching other people how to do what I do, only better. I speak at some tech conferences.

I hail originally from Hilton, NY, and have also lived in Manhattan, Washington DC, Bangkok, Yerevan, Baghdad, Kuala Lumpur, and Geneva. Via consulting, I had the pleasure of extended stays in Singapore, Sydney, Jakarta and Mexico City. (Yes, I move around a lot. No, I'm not a spy. ;-) I also travel often for the pleasure of it.

I speak bits of a few languages semi-fluently (Thai, Armenian, Spanish), but my best language other than English is French, owing to my time in Geneva.

For fun, I mountain bike, snowboard, run, spin, and love to play Ultimate (Frisbee) (but not lately). I play some Go. I love to read Speculative/Science-Fiction.