Most production systems break the same way. I've spent 20 years finding out which way.
Platform engineering, distributed systems, AI infrastructure. Built and scaled systems at YouTube, Yammer, Nextdoor, FireHydrant. Co-founded Mocksi (a16z Speedrun). Now I advise technical founders through SansCourier.
install-glo. AI-powered web vitals optimization engine. Built on the Vercel AI SDK, Anthropic, and OpenAI.npx install-glo- Deployed Temporal for incident orchestration at FireHydrant and AI simulation pipelines at Mocksi
- Migrated Nextdoor from ECS to EKS. Ran K8s + Consul for Cisco.
- Built Terraform packages for Cisco, Akamai, Oracle. First Terraform provider for Oracle Cloud. Three PRs to Kubernetes core.
- paribusAI. Socratic AI mentor. RAG, local inference, vector DB.





