Twenty years of building.
From co-founding a payments company to scaling engineering through an IPO, and now running a cybersecurity practice. One throughline: build systems that people can trust, and the teams that keep them that way.
Georgia Tech
I graduated from Georgia Tech in 2006 with a BS in Computer Engineering (with high honor). I serve on the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees (2024 - 2027).
iMobile3
I co-founded iMobile3, a mobile payments and loyalty company, in 2008 and served as CTO through acquisition by TSYS in 2018. We built a white-label POS and loyalty platform running across thousands of merchants, which meant PCI DSS, tokenization, hardware terminals, and a level of paranoia about failure modes that I still carry into every engagement. After the acquisition I stayed on through the Global Payments merger as Director of Platform Services, scaling the Vital POS platform across tens of thousands of concurrent devices.
Olo
I joined Olo as an engineering manager in 2019 and led the Guest Engagement group -- loyalty, SSO, and the platforms that sat under millions of daily orders for 500+ restaurant brands. We took the company public on the NYSE in March 2021, which is its own kind of education: compliance, incident response, performance engineering, hiring, and roadmap tension all change when the answer sheet is public.
Now: withinfocus, Inc.
I run withinfocus, Inc., a software consulting, cybersecurity, and AI adoption practice. The work spans security architecture, engineering leadership, and practical AI integration -- which in modern engineering organizations is the same conversation three different ways. Alongside that, I spend time inside large security and financial organizations on architecture, platform modernization, and the engineering practices that have to hold up at scale.
