Director of Software Engineering

I took an on-prem IoT platform to Azure — and doubled the team's retention along the way.

Twenty-five years leading global engineering teams across the US, Europe, and Costa Rica, building organizations that ship reliably and keep their best people.

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Track record

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18 → 42 mo

Engineer retentionRebuilt underperforming teams with targeted coaching and modernized delivery practices, more than doubling average tenure.

Weeks → minutes

Deployment lead timeReplaced a batched release process with continuous delivery, enabling daily production releases.

3,000+ devices

IoT fleet on AzureMoved on-prem systems to Azure cloud serving 3,000+ IoT devices and 2,000+ customers, with millions of events a day.

15×

Throughput increaseBuilt modular cloud foundations and an enterprise event bus, multiplying boxes processed and staged for production.

Recent writing

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Leadership14 min read

Why Don't We Mentor Software Management?

Uncovering the hidden pitfalls in how organizations promote and support management, revealing the make-or-break power of mentorship and outcome-focused leadership in software.

leadership

Leadership8 min read

How Did We Learn What to Change About Practices? How Did We Transform?

Why most transformation initiatives fail—and how one team discovered the difference between implementing frameworks and developing organizational intelligence.

leadership
transformation

Leadership3 min read

Building Resilient Software Organizations That Scale Intelligently

How to establish product-aligned, AI-augmented engineering organizations that deliver fast and responsibly while scaling from startup to enterprise.

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team-building
architecture
ai

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