Engineering Leader, DevOps & Infrastructure

Engineering leader with nearly 20 years building teams that ship. Experienced in Engineering Manager, Director, or VP roles. Most recently, DevOps and Engineering Manager at Counterpart, leading two full-stack teams plus DevOps, and building an MCP infrastructure connecting GitHub, Linear, Salesforce, Snowflake, and Slack. Achieved 89% Agile success rate and built a git-tracked Salesforce deployment pipeline saving $20k/year. Previously, Director of Engineering at Flourish Software (up to 15 engineers, 60% improvement in on-time delivery, 50% reduction in support load), Senior Full Stack at Expensify (moved millions of dollars daily, six-stack infrastructure), CEO of RedDep Labs ($8.6M valuation), and CTO at iCracked (Y Combinator, 400+ technicians). Leads by hiring people who care about each other's success, setting clear commitments, and trusting the team. Trained as an actor and special education teacher, enabling legible technical conversations. Seeks a team that values shipping over performance, has real users, and wants a leader technical enough to read code and grounded enough to keep the team steady.