For three decades I've built, secured, and run production infrastructure — and I still write the Python, deploy the GPU clusters, and pass the audits myself. Today I lead Information Security & Compliance at an enterprise AI company, where systems I've architected have run 1,450+ consecutive days without unplanned downtime.
Most security executives govern. Most engineers build. I do both — which means the controls I design actually work in production, and the infrastructure I build passes audit the first time.
Replaced a commercial ITSM platform with a custom-built system. Zero license cost, better fit, still running.
Continuous uptime across a self-healing production fleet I designed — from half a rack to six racks of GPU infrastructure.
SOC 2 and HIPAA programs built hands-on: I write the policies and the code that enforces them.
For companies that need SOC 2 or HIPAA done right without a full-time executive salary. I've built these programs from zero inside a fast-moving AI company; I know which controls matter and which are audit theater.
Start a conversation →Colo buildouts, GPU fleet architecture, network fabric design, cloud-repatriation math. If your AWS bill is the problem, I've solved it at scale.
Start a conversation →For the right company: one where security, compliance, and infrastructure are one job, not three departments.
Start a conversation →Every system I build starts with security. Every product I ship runs on infrastructure I designed.
SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance at scale. Zero Trust network design, SIEM implementation, endpoint management, and incident response — for an AI company where the stakes are high.
Designed a full 3-spine/6-leaf data center fabric for an AI company's server fleet. Planned and operated multi-product SaaS hosting infrastructure serving live users daily.
Built production SaaS platforms from concept through deployment — full-stack, with AI integration baked in. Co-founded a multi-product creative tech company with 7 live brands.
I don't just manage infrastructure. I build the systems that run on it.
Self-hosted, enterprise-grade ITSM built from the ground up. 10-container Docker stack, autonomous AI remediation agent, 41 ticket types, Slack-integrated approval workflows, Active Directory sync. Replaced commercial tools quoted at up to $152K/year.
Designed a 3-spine/6-leaf, all-100G data center network fabric for an AI company's server fleet — replacing a flat network with a BGP underlay, VLT peer pairs, ECMP across all three spines, and Anycast Gateway per zone.
Owned the multi-year buildout from half a rack to six full colocation racks — now ~2,900 CPU cores, ~34 TB of RAM, NVIDIA A100/B300-class GPU compute, and 48 VMs across 35 hosts. Plus a suite of internal software built from scratch: a federated CMDB, live inventory and network dashboards, power monitoring, and an AI infrastructure assistant.
Self-healing applications built with scripting and AI: an autonomous remediation agent that resolves known faults without human intervention, an event-log pipeline that analyzes logs and opens its own tickets, and an AI-orchestration layer coordinating specialized agents across my own applications and brands. Not chat — an operating system for delegated technical work.
The throughline of my work: I find a real, unsolved problem, build the complete solution, and refine it until it's genuinely great. Time To Plate, an enterprise helpdesk, an asset-management system, a purchase-order system, an automated penetration-testing & reporting platform, and more — each taken from idea to running software.
Chicago-area creative tech umbrella company I co-founded and lead as CEO, CTO, and CISO. 7 live product brands across apparel, software, music, and education — all running on shared infrastructure I designed, built, and operate.
I've spent three decades in IT and cybersecurity, but what drives me is building things that actually solve problems — not just maintaining what exists. From an enterprise network fabric to a SaaS recipe scheduler, every project starts with the same question: "What's the right way to build this?" — and security is always part of that answer.
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Thirty years in means I've already made the expensive mistakes on someone else's budget. Let's skip them on yours.