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 work in Akamai's Edge Computing organization, leading the engineering teams behind its certificate provisioning and lifecycle management services. 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. Before Akamai I spent four years leading engineering teams at Optum on the referrals and care management features for UHG members. 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.