Mid 2026

Senior Eng Manager at Built Technologies, a Series D at the intersection of fintech and construction tech. We're working on the hard problems around how construction gets funded and business gets done in real estate, all towards the goal of making it easier to fund and build more housing.

My current focus is on operationalizing AI tooling and building agentic capabilities into our software. In simple terms, that means using AI to design and develop AI features. In practice, that means we're discovering, experimenting with, and establishing safe new usage patterns across the team of ~10 engineers I lead almost every day. And then using AI seriously to move faster - in some cases much faster - without losing product judgment, engineering taste, or operational discipline. And finally using the speed we're gaining to build new agentic capabilities from document extraction to task completion.

Business domain-wise, my focus is commercial real estate asset management software. Risk management and opportunity assessment around cash flows, rent rolls, portfolio health and capital allocation. Complex, high-stakes, deeply unglamorous. Kind of why I like it!

Personal life: 17 years in Portland. California still beckons long term, but in the meantime Portland remains a great place to be, despite what you may have heard. Come visit, I get a big kick out of playing tour guide.

No big trip this year: I'm in Nashville 4-5 times a year for work, and we've been focusing on the West Coast for weekend trips to the Coast, Bend, San Francisco and San Diego.