Eng Mgr @ AkamaiFounder @ Kaweah TechTulare, CA
I have been writing software for twenty years and leading the people who write it for half of those. By day I manage an engineering team at Akamai, in the Edge Computing organization working on certificate provisioning, after four years leading engineering teams at Optum on the referrals and care management features for UHG members. The rest of the time I run Kaweah Tech, the AI and software consultancy I started in 2023 to bring real engineering work to businesses in California's Central Valley. What I am good at is finding where something is not working and fixing it. Sometimes with software. Sometimes with AI. Often by stepping away from the keyboard and fixing the process instead.
A licensure-tracking application for clinical social workers and other therapy professionals.
A RAG-driven fertilizer scheduling tool built for Farmer's Fertilizer.
Replaced a weekly batch provider data pipeline with a Kafka event stream serving 50M+ members.
Work Order Management for R.M. King, the platform that runs cotton picker head rework operations in Fresno and Moultrie.
Job-hunt numbers from spring 2026, and why that much marketplace friction is bad for candidates and employers alike.
Markdown became the default flat-file knowledge format for LLMs, yet mutation tooling is still stuck on sed and grep.
If the cost of custom software has fallen far enough, a mid-size business may build a suite that fits its operations exactly rather than bending those operations to off-the-shelf tools.