PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An executive technology leader with 25 years of experience building and scaling the platforms that power the modern internet. I build and lead elite Product, Engineering, and Developer Relations teams that bridge strategic vision with flawless execution. My leadership, from scaling unicorns to managing billion dollar P&Ls, has delivered platforms now indispensable to over 50% of developers globally. My approach is consistent: understand what users truly need, design delightful experiences, and build ecosystems with communities, not for them. My deep expertise in distributed systems, AI/ML infrastructure, and open source ecosystems allows me to deliver platforms that are scalable, innovative, and foundational to business growth.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS (The tl;dr)

Accelerated AI Platform Performance by 50% – driving a ~30% increase in realized P&L at a $65B AUM hedge fund by architecting a unified ML architecture that significantly reduced model ideation-to-trading time.
Catapulted Go into top-5 Programming Language – growing developer base by 10x (400K → 4.5M), achieving #1 adoption rate on Google Cloud Platform, and increasing user confidence 45% → 85%, CSAT 80% → 92%
Architected MongoDB User Experience – a key differentiator that propelled MongoDB from <1% to 25% of the developer market, rising from #40+ → #4 globally and establishing it as the #1 NoSQL database.
Pioneered developer-led GTM for the database industry – building a globally distributed organization from 1 → 125+ and a program reaching 1M+ developers annually (50,000+ in person) that drove Fortune 500 adoption and earned back-to-back DB-Engines Database of the Year awards in 2013 and 2014.
Shaped Google's Open Source Strategy – co-founded Google's Open Source Strategy team, wrote the strategy for Google's major open source projects, and authored Google’s official code of conduct for over 5,000 projects
Recognized as a top 50 Engineer on Github by project adoption (w/195k+ ★s) – Built category defining open source projects from the ground up including Hugo (88k+ ★s), Cobra (44k+ ★s), and Viper (30k+ ★s)

EXPERIENCE

Two Sigma Investment Management – Managing Director: Head of Product Mgmt 2022 - 2024

Led product strategy for $65B AUM hedge fund, directing 650+ engineers and 25+ PMs across all investment stages including: data, AI/ML, research, simulation, trading, compliance, and portfolio management.

Cut model ideation-to-trading time by 50% by architecting a unified AI/ML platform featuring a proprietary DSL, a 20x faster simulation engine, a custom streaming data engine that replaced Spark & Pandas, and automated model fitting to dramatically reduce processing time and cost
Drove ~30% increase in realized P&L by co-leading equities division, architecting a multi-year strategic roadmap that unified quant researchers, engineers, and product managers and expanded market opportunities by $X billion
Led a cultural transformation for 2,000+ people, achieving over 90% adoption of an outcome focused framework in under 6 months through strategic change management & cross functional collaboration
Established scalable product organization from early stage to mature function, implementing governance processes for firm wide technology alignment

Google – Group Product Manager 2016 - 2022

Product lead for 250+ engineering org across language ecosystems, developer platforms, and cloud technologies

Transformed Go from niche technology to top 5 language, growing user base by 10x (400K to 4.5M+ developers) and securing +30% headcount investment from Urs Hölzle through presenting a comprehensive adoption strategy
Achieved #1 programming language adoption rate on Google Cloud with 3x higher platform engagement versus other languages, while raising user confidence from 45% to 85% and CSAT from 80% to 92%
Reoriented GCP's engineering culture toward customer centricity, forging a strategic partnership with StackOverflow creating new research channels that directly informed product roadmap and increased user trust
Led implementation of Go's largest features (modules & generics) and expanded ecosystem to full developer experience including IDE support, package discovery, fuzzing and vulnerability scanning
Co-founded Google's Open Source Strategy team, authoring company wide open source strategy & code of conduct adopted across 5,000+ projects

Docker – Chief Operator / VP Engineering 2014 - 2015

Guided container platform company through hyper growth phase (3x headcount, 10x valuation).

Solidified Docker's market dominance by leading core engineering teams and establishing industry standards through the creation of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Increased external contribution by 40% by implementing structured contribution processes and executing global open-source-a-thon spanning 26 cities with 1000+ developers, resulting in 300+ merged contributions

MongoDB – Chief Developer Advocate (Engineering, Web & Technical Writing) 2011 - 2014

Joined as employee #24 during explosive growth: 25x FTE, 40x sales, 40x valuation in 3 years. Reported directly to the CTO with ownership across engineering, developer relations, web, technical writing, and product GTM.

Captured 25% of the total database market and secured MongoDB’s #1 NoSQL market position by pioneering the developer-led GTM model for the database industry, reaching 50,000+ engineers in person annually across 160+ events with 90+ speakers, launching the MongoDB Champions program, and rising from outside the top 40 databases to #4 globally, earning DB-Engines Database of the Year back-to-back in 2013 and 2014.
Redefined database UX for the software engineer era by designing a unified, idiomatic interface across 12+ languages — making MongoDB the first major database built for developers rather than DBAs.
Unblocked MongoDB's enterprise adoption by orchestrating a simultaneous, zero-disruption shift to safe writes by default across all drivers and global maintainers — neutralizing the platform's most damaging credibility gap and forging critical integrations (Hadoop, AWS, Azure, Spark) that made MongoDB enterprise-viable for the first time
Scaled and led a globally distributed organization from 1 to 125+ across the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australia, maintaining single-digit attrition while engineering excellence programs cut critical bugs by 60%.

Earlier Career 1995 - 2010

Delivered multiple successful exits (acquisitions by Alibaba & Alloy) as a key engineering and operations executive, scaling teams to 100+ and building high transaction e-commerce and social platforms.

OPEN SOURCE PROJECT LEADERSHIP

Go (134k★): Programming language with 12%+ market share, serving 4.5M+ developers
Hugo (88k★): #1 static web engine powering vote.gov, 2k.com, kubernetes.io, brave.com, freebsd.org, kde.org
Docker/Moby (71k★): Container platform with 35% market share
Cobra (44k★): #1 CLI framework used by 150k+ applications including GitHub, Kubernetes, Dropbox, Docker
MongoDB (30k★): Leading NoSQL database with 25% of market share
Viper (30k★):Configuration framework for Go used by 100k+ libraries & applications
Drupal: 100,000+ contributors, third most used web engine

INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP

Technical Governance: SIG leader for Go, Docker, MongoDB, Drupal architecture and governance decisions
Speaking Impact: Keynote speaker at 40+ international conferences including Google Next, LinuxCon, OSCON
Community Building: Organized 30+ major conferences (GopherCon, DockerCon, MongoDB Days)
Content Creation: O'Reilly author, "best programming blog" (Quora), 30K+ monthly readers
Advisory Roles: Technical advisor to unicorn companies including Docker, CoreOS, Onboard Informatics

BOARD, ADVISORY & INVESTMENT ROLES

Board & Advisory: Drupal Association (Board), wRank Inc (Board), Docker (Advisor), CoreOS (Advisor), Chili Piper (Advisor), Reality Crisis/Skatrix (Advisor), Rhone Apparel (Advisor), Scala Center (Advisor), Broadway Video Ventures (Advisor), Onboard Informatics (Advisor)

Select Investments: Breeze Airways, Docker, MongoDB, Chili Piper, Rhone Apparel, wRank Inc, Reality Crisis/Skatrix

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

AI/ML Product Leadership: Platform architecture, model deployment & governance, large scale data processing, financial infrastructure
Executive Leadership & Strategy: Organizational transformation (150-1000+ people), outcome focused culture change, cross functional alignment
Product & Technical Vision: Cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer experience, open source governance
Enterprise Growth: Digital transformation, customer first strategy, ecosystem development
Community Building: Developer advocacy, global communities, thought leadership

EDUCATION

Brigham Young University – Bachelor of Arts

PERSONAL

Father of four
Built a 150+ player youth soccer league of 3-8th graders.
Advisor and investor in an AR skateboarding venture alongside legends Rodney Mullen, Daewon Song, and Chris Haslam. Great story here, ask me about it.