12+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading 40-100+ engineer orgs means real scale won't be new to you
Leading Directors and senior Engineering Managers is familiar ground. You know how to scale through leaders, not just direct reports
You've owned a cloud platform customers pay for - IaaS, PaaS, or managed services - and know what reliability feels like in production
You’re AI tooling fluent and are passionate about the ecosystem, the user experience, and have an interest in pushing the envelope
Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure are home turf. You can go deep with engineers and make sound calls at platform scale
In growth-stage settings, you've kept teams moving through ambiguity without letting quality or on-call discipline slip
You're a builder. When the playbook is thin, you create the structure the team needs
Direct, low-ego leadership matters here. People trust you, and you raise standards without adding noise
Time inside AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, or a similar cloud provider will help you ramp faster
AI/ML platform work at scale is a useful context for the managed services we build
Past experience scaling an engineering org through rapid growth will translate well here
You've built products for both developers and enterprises, with a clear eye for user experience