Director AI/ML Engineering · The Unnatural Group

AI/ML Engineer
& Company Builder

16 years building production AI/ML systems, scaling engineering orgs from 2 to 200+, and turning zero-to-one ideas into nine-figure outcomes. Currently architecting arbitrage trading infrastructure at a $2B+ prop trading firm. Always in the code.

Get in Touch → See My Work

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20+

Years Engineering

$125M

Exit (Fonteva)

98%

Eng Retention

200+

Team Scaled To

8×

Inc 5000 Honoree

About

High school dropout.
CTO. Founder. Engineer.

I didn't take the traditional path. I dropped out of high school, taught myself to code, and spent the next two decades building things that matter — from production AI/ML pipelines processing millions of daily transactions to SaaS platforms serving enterprise clients at scale.

As co-founder and CTO of Fonteva, I built the engineering org from 2 to 40+ engineers with 98% retention over 10 years, invented patented virtual container technology, grew the company to $35M ARR, and drove a $125M acquisition by Togetherwork. I also founded inTown, a civic tech company that reached $2M annual profit bootstrapped with zero outside funding.

Today I lead AI/ML engineering at a prop trading firm managing $2B+ — building the arbitrage infrastructure from scratch and taking it from zero to $1M monthly run rate in 5 months. I believe the best engineering leaders never stop shipping.

↗ Career Timeline

Director AI/ML Engineering

The Unnatural Group · 2024 – Present

Founder & CTO — inTown

Civic tech · $2M profit · 12 cities · 2021–2024

Co-Founder & CTO — Fonteva

$35M ARR · $125M exit to Togetherwork · 2012–2021

Sr. Technical Architect — Wipro

Apple iTunes, Blackboard · 2009–2012

Patent Holder

USPTO US20150363179A1 · Virtual Containers

Expertise

What I Build

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AI/ML Production Systems

LLM deployment, RAG architectures with knowledge graphs, LSTM-based pricing models, and real-time ML pipelines with sub-50ms latency for trading and ad-tech.

Python PyTorch LangChain Neo4j Pinecone

🏗️

High-Throughput Infrastructure

Streaming architectures handling 50K+ concurrent requests at 99.95% uptime. Real-time data pipelines for trading signals, ad data, and municipal services.

Kafka Flink ClickHouse AWS Kubernetes

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Full-Stack Products & SaaS

End-to-end application development — multitenant SaaS, payment facilitation, partner ecosystems, and developer platforms processing $500M+ in annual transactions.

FastAPI Next.js Celery Rust Terraform

Experience

Where I've Made Impact

2024 — Present · Director AI/ML Engineering

The Unnatural Group

Built AI/ML engineering from scratch at a $2B+ prop trading firm. Recruited a team of 6, secured $10M in investment to re-architect market data processing, and reduced inference latency from 4 seconds to sub-50ms — unlocking arbitrage strategies at scale.

$0 → $1M/mo run rate in 5 months · $12M+ projected FY2026

2021 — 2024 · Founder & CTO

inTown

Founded and bootstrapped a civic tech company to $2M annual profit with zero outside funding. Built a team of 9 engineers delivering AI-powered municipal infrastructure to 12 city governments with 92% autonomous resolution rate.

Profitable year one · 100% eng retention over 3 years

2012 — 2021 · Co-Founder & CTO

Fonteva → Togetherwork

Joined a 5-person consultancy, built it into a SaaS platform with $35M ARR and 180+ employees. Invented patented virtual container tech, grew engineering from 2 to 40+ with 98% retention, and drove a $125M acquisition.

$125M exit · #1 Salesforce ISV globally · $500M+ txns/yr

2009 — 2012 · Senior Technical Architect

Wipro (Apple, Blackboard)

Led technical architecture for enterprise Service Cloud implementations serving Fortune 500 clients including Apple's iTunes division. Designed event-driven architectures supporting 10M+ monthly interactions.

Apple iTunes tooling · 70% faster report generation

Open Source

What I Ship in the Open

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PyPiper

Streaming data framework for real-time workflows with Apache Kafka, Avro serialization, Flink, and ClickHouse. Schema-driven pipelines built for ML workloads.

Python

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