01 / Who
Founding engineer at Revel. Tech lead through Nextdoor's IPO. Former co-founder and CTO at Mocksi. Now I build AI platforms at ZoomInfo, and through Sanscourier I advise founders while they raise. I still write the code.
TheRecord
Current roles first. Then the teams and the exits behind them.
Principal AI Platform Engineer, ZoomInfo
Current role. The AI platform where hundreds of engineers execute billions of agentic runs a day
Startup advisor, Sanscourier
Current. Advising founders from top startups
Former co-founder & CTO, Mocksi
Raised $1.5M from a16z Speedrun, Character Labs, Deftly and Upside Partnership. Shipped three products in 18 months. In testing, they cut demo prep from months to days
Ran $42M of engineering, five teams
Five teams built from zero for Uber, Zenefits, Oracle, Cisco and Akamai. Fractional VP of Engineering at Akava.io
On the team through 4 exits
Yammer → Microsoft $1.2B, Nextdoor IPO, FireHydrant → Freshworks, Do.com → Amazon
Scaled Nextdoor for 3x traffic in 60 days
Held 99.99% uptime through the COVID surge. Then grew registrations 20% at half the acquisition cost
02 / Results
What shipped
Diagnovet: raised a seed round from 500 Global
I advised the founders through it. “Glo helped us sharpen our pitch and our strategy before we raised.” Soledad Alborno, Co-Founder
Timecopilot: accepted to Character Labs
I advised the founders through it. “Glo tore our pitch apart, rebuilt it, and made the intros. We got into Character Labs.” Azul Garza, Co-CEO
Built Layernetes and shipped it to production in a weekend
Solo. A bare-metal Kubernetes cloud for AI agents that runs the AI floor at Frontier Tower. “One of the most attractive benefits of the floor.” Devinder Sodhi, floor lead
Shipped ParibusAI for Western Michigan University
An AI tutor on the school's own hardware: no per-student API bill, and no student data leaves campus. The professor kept building on it
Re-architected Yammer push notifications
1B+ events a day, 10s → 80ms delivery. The app's App Store rating rose a full star and downloads grew
Created first Terraform provider for OCI
Adopted as Oracle's official provider. 140M+ downloads on the Terraform Registry
Built Cisco Shipped
A Heroku-like platform on a Kubernetes/Mesos hybrid, 100% open source. Cisco rolled it out to a handful of Fortune 500 customers
“Glo tore our pitch apart, rebuilt it, and made the intros. We got into Character Labs.”
03 / Book time
Tell me what you're building.
Thirty minutes, one founder, no deck required.