About Me

I'm a startup founder and software engineer based in New York City.

Currently

I am an engineering manager at an incredible developer tools company named Graphite. I am responsible for a couple of teams: stacking and infrastructure. Graphite was recently acquired by Cursor, the predominant Agentic IDE company.

Angel Investing

I occasionally invest in early-stage startups.

  • Xent - Benchmarks and games for making AGI
  • Imera - Tools for navigating immigration
  • Potions - Generate relevant and useful newsletter content with AI

Past

I have been fortunate to work with incredible people over the years on some amazing products.

  • Flex - AI native private banking.Director of Engineering. I joined Flex via the acquisition of Maza.
  • Maza - financial services for Spanish-speakers and small business owners.I was co-founder and CTO of Maza, which was acquired by Flex for $40M. We shipped product to hundreds of thousands of happy customers and raised a Seed and Series A from top VC firms.
  • Attentive - AI-powered customer messaging platform.Engineering manager for integrations and public API. I worked with incredible engineers and leaders at Attentive, scaling integrations and a public API among explosive growth in e-commerce.
  • Owly - marketplace for emotional and physical support activities for elderly people.Co-founder and CTO. My first startup was focused on serving the growing elderly populatio in the United States. We built a marketplace for emotional and physical support activities for the elderly population of California.
  • SlackStaff Software Engineer. I worked on enterprise identity, authentication and the developer platform.
  • LinkedInEngineering Manager, Senior Software Engineer. Sales Navigator, Recruiter, Enterprise Identity and more.
  • Rice UniversityI received my BS in Computer Science from Rice University. Volunteered for campus TV, engineers without borders, and worked in a robotics lab for two years where I published a couple of papers.

Interests

Hobbies that are *mostly* outside of tech

  • Classical Music - My wife is a professional classical singer, so I follow what she does quite closely.
  • Drone Flying - Flying FPV drones is a surreal, beautiful experience and I recommend it to everyone.
  • Skateboarding - this is a childhood obsession I rebooted in adulthood.

Contact Me

Feel free to reach out through any of these channels.

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