Two decades of shipping.

1. 

   Faga Labs

   Jan 2026 – Present

   My principal engineering studio.

   • Founder, Principal EngineerJan 2026 – Present

   Most significant

   Founded a principal engineering studio that delivers full-stack and applied AI work for Xometry, Financial Recovery Technologies, and Great Heights Learning.

2. 

   Via AI

   Aug 2025 – Present

   Relationship intelligence platform that finds warm introduction paths to people and companies.

   • Co-Founder / EngineerAug 2025 – Present

   Most significant

   Architected a data resolution platform that merges multiple sources into 100M+ profiles and nearly a trillion relationship edges, fully rebuilt in under 5 hours.

3. 

   TruFit Talent

   May 2026 – Present

   Unbiased, AI-based simulation assessments for recruiting.

   • Fractional CTO, part-timeMay 2026 – Present

   Most significant

   Led a full modernization of the simulation assessment platform and extended it to full recruiting workflows: auto-generated simulations per school and role, AI test personas that validate simulations and scoring before real candidates, live voice simulations, and a school portal with interview pipelines.

4. 

   Prefab

   Advisor · Aug 2022 – Mar 2026

   Acquired by Reforge, now part of Miro.

   • AdvisorAug 2022 – Mar 2026

   Technical advisor from 2022 through the acquisition by Reforge.

5. 

   Hunt Club

   Mar 2023 – Jun 2025

   Recruiting company and its Atlas platform.

   • Principal Software EngineerMar 2023 – Jun 2025

   Most significant

   Led the build-out of the data platform and full-stack application, reaching $700M ARR and setting up a multi-million-dollar data partnership that closed after I left.

6. 

   Wayfair

   May 2019 – Mar 2023

   Global e-commerce company for the home.

   • Principal Software EngineerMar 2023
   • Senior Staff Software EngineerMar 2020 – Feb 2023
   • Staff Software EngineerMay 2019 – Mar 2020

   Most significant

   Founded the GraphQL program, platform, and team that serve billions of daily requests across the Storefront, Partner, and Internal APIs. Oversaw the Storefront Product Details Page and helped shape Blockbuilder, a schema-driven CMS for live content experiments.

7. 

   ezCater

   Jan 2017 – Apr 2019

   Two-sided corporate catering marketplace.

   • Staff Software EngineerAug 2018 – Apr 2019
   • Senior Software EngineerJan 2017 – Aug 2018

   Most significant

   Led the rebuild of the customer service platform: built the proof of concept, won executive buy-in, and launched phone and chat with zero downtime, at an estimated $10M in annual savings.

8. 

   Attend

   Jul 2015 – Dec 2016

   Event management startup, acquired by Event Farm.

   • Tech Lead / Staff Software EngineerJul 2016 – Dec 2016
   • Senior Software EngineerJul 2015 – Jun 2016

   Most significant

   Interim Director of Engineering through a company pivot, then led the Event Farm acquisition merger across Salesforce, Marketo, and a rebuilt iOS app, supporting $1.5M+ in expected revenue.

9. 

   The Baupost Group

   Jul 2010 – Jul 2015

   Value investing firm managing $25B+ in assets.

   • Software EngineerMay 2013 – Jul 2015
   • Business AnalystJul 2010 – Apr 2013

   Most significant

   Built an MS Dynamics CRM with a Web API 2 service tier and a WCF employee data platform, replacing legacy systems.

10. 

    Bank of America

    Jul 2006 – Jun 2010
    • AVP, Business Technology Integration ConsultantJan 2008 – Jun 2010
    • Officer, Business Technology AnalystJul 2006 – Dec 2007

    Most significant

    Designed the approach to merge Bank of America and Merrill Lynch annuity and insurance systems across 20+ application teams.

11. 

    Cheng & Tsui

    Feb 2006 – May 2006
    • Computer TechnicianFeb 2006 – May 2006

    Most significant

    Assisted in the migration from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 2003 Server.

12. 

    General Electric

    Jun 2005 – Aug 2005
    • IMLP Intern, Project ManagerJun 2005 – Aug 2005

    Most significant

    Managed the initial rollout of Business Objects ad hoc query software to Sensing worldwide sites.

13. 

    The Hartford

    Jun 2004 – May 2005
    • SQL Developer InternJun 2004 – May 2005

    Most significant

    Upgraded the company server from SQL 6.5 to SQL 2K. First production code.

Education

Boston College

Bachelor of Arts, cum laude. Computer Science, minor in Film Studies.2002 – 2006.

• Eagle EMS: certified EMT-B, CPR instructor, webmaster
• ACM chapter webmaster
• Golden Key International Honor Society
• Senior Week Committee
• Intramural ice hockey

Off the clock

Interests

Camping and hiking, skiing, golf, cooking, home improvement projects, motorcycles, and traveling. Eagle Scout, February 2000.

Stack

Stack

Applied AI

AI agents and orchestration, MCP servers, LLM triage and classification. Claude Code, Codex, pi, Grok, Kimi.

Current

React, TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL (Apollo Federation and Router), Ruby on Rails, SQL and Postgres, vector databases, AWS. Python and Rust (AI-assisted).

Previous

Kubernetes, Kafka, C# and .NET, iOS and Swift, Xamarin, ASP.NET MVC and Web API 2, SQL Server, MySQL, WPF, WCF, PHP, Java.