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BEFORE PAXORA.

I build AI products for work where a mistake hurts someone. Today that means Paxora, which I founded alone in July 2025 to prepare family law filings for all 50 state courts, and Lumbra, where I run product on the agentic harness for the intelligence community and the Department of War. Before that I co-founded 8090.ai and spent twenty years on developer platforms at Pivotal, VMware, and Hiro.

2025PRESENT

FOUNDER

PAXORA · MENLO PARK · JUL 2025 → PRESENT

Founded and bootstrapped Paxora on one thesis: in work where a mistake hurts someone, the output has to be provable. It prepares family law filings for all 50 state courts, developed with California design partners, and proves every form against court rules before release. Built as a platform any AI model can drive, so consumers, practitioners, and partners run on one engine. I own strategy, product, and the business end to end.

2025PRESENT

FRACTIONAL PRODUCT EXECUTIVE

LUMBRA · MENLO PARK · JUL 2025 → PRESENT

Agentic harness for the intelligence community and the Department of War. I hold the executive seat for business, product, and commercial strategy. Shaped the company's investment thesis and set the portfolio architecture where one governed platform is the product and every other surface is an upsell on it. Now helping chart where the platform goes beyond government. Defined the release standard the company runs on: an agent ships when it can prove its work.

2024TO 2025

CO-FOUNDER

8090.AI · MENLO PARK · JUN 2024 → JUN 2025

Co-founded the company in June 2024 on the Software Factory thesis, where AI agents write enterprise software. Models then could not check their own work, so we built the test data and checks by hand. $4M in contracts in 12 months with 5 people. I ran product, customer engineering, and hiring.

2022TO 2024

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT

HIRO SYSTEMS · SAN JOSE · FEB 2022 → JUN 2024

Bitcoin developer platform. Grew users 20x, cut developer onboarding from 5 days to 5 minutes, and built paid plans for its APIs and indexers. Won the Engineering Moonshots award.

2020TO 2022

SR. PRODUCT LINE MANAGER

VMWARE · SAN FRANCISCO · JAN 2020 → FEB 2022

Launched Azure Spring Apps Enterprise with Microsoft: 40+ customers and $1.5M in its first 30 days. Ran product strategy for the Streaming Runtime.

2014TO 2019

PRINCIPAL PRODUCT MANAGER

PIVOTAL · SAN FRANCISCO · APR 2014 → DEC 2019

Took Spring Cloud Data Flow from an internal pivot to a $10M+ revenue line, with 10x adoption in under two years. Product work on Cloud Foundry and cf push, which let a developer in any language deploy with one command.

2010TO 2014

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT

SUMMA · PITTSBURGH · JUL 2010 → APR 2014

Legacy modernization and continuous delivery for regulated enterprises.

2008TO 2010

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

FEDEX · PITTSBURGH · JAN 2008 → JUL 2010

Enterprise service bus, edge compute, and business process systems.

2006TO 2008

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

CAMO · WOODBRIDGE · JUN 2006 → JAN 2008

Data applications for US and Canadian government.

2004TO 2006

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

COGNIZANT · CHENNAI · JUN 2004 → JUN 2006

Migrated mainframe systems to web.

EDUCATION
CARNEGIE MELLON · MSIT · 2013
MADRAS UNIVERSITY · EE · 2004
LOCATION
MENLO PARK · CALIFORNIA