Three-time founder and staff-level engineer who builds fast and owns everything end-to-end. Built internal tooling at PayPal scale and solo-built entire products from nothing. 16 years between startups and scaled companies. Best with high autonomy, small teams, and a bias toward shipping.
I've founded three companies. I know what it's like to be the person who has to build the thing, fix the thing, and decide what the thing should be—all at the same time. That's the mode I work best in, and from what I understand, that's exactly what this role is.
I've spent 16 years alternating between startups and scaled systems. At PayPal, I built internal platforms that secured 9M merchant sessions a day—RBAC, multi-user access, global jurisdiction logic. That was internal tooling at massive scale, and I learned what it means when your tools are the thing that makes or breaks everyone else's workflow. At Nuna, I took a small team from discovery to GA in four months on a healthcare analytics platform. And most recently, I solo-built an entire AI-powered Shopify app—frontend, API, distributed workers, billing, the works—because I wanted to prove I could ship a full product alone. I did.
What I think matters for this role: I'm fast, I'm independent, and I have strong opinions about what good tools look like because I've been the user of bad ones. I've built internal tools, external platforms, and developer-facing products. I know how to talk to the people using what I build, figure out what's actually slowing them down, and fix it without waiting for a spec.
I also understand startups from the inside. I've gone through the early-stage chaos three times. I know what founders need because I've been one. Building tools for a place like YC—where the whole point is making startups more successful—feels like a natural fit for everything I've done.
I'm in San Francisco. I'm ready now. Happy to talk whenever works.