Experience
2023 — Now
New York, NY
Leading a 50+ person technical organization supporting Meta's core infrastructure engineering — AI/ML, compute, storage, and cloud — across one of the industry's most heterogeneous fleets: millions of servers, multiple GPU architectures, thousands of interconnected services, and diverse data center designs serving 3.35B+ daily active users.
✪ Drove Meta's public cloud strategy and execution, developing the technical feasibility and financial analysis that established the business case for multi-cloud expansion across AWS, Oracle, Google Cloud, and emerging neoclouds—a strategy now central to Meta's infrastructure scaling approach
✪ Delivered next-generation service management platforms to power AI inference at scale—enabling model orchestration, deployment lifecycle, and unified control plane capabilities for Meta's most critical AI workloads
✪ Led infrastructure enablement for heterogeneous compute at unprecedented scale, supporting the rapid adoption of new hardware architectures (including Nvidia, AMD and custom silicon), novel data center designs such as rapid deployment structures (tents), and multi-region AI training clusters—enabling Meta to compress traditional multi-year buildout timelines to months
✪ Shaped Meta-wide strategy to make infrastructure fully operable by AI agents, enabling a shift from manual, fragmented operations to intent-driven, agent-executed workflows
✪ Rebooted and led a company-wide capacity and efficiency program, aligning cross-company engineering and finance teams on measurement frameworks and unlocking significant cost savings for the company
✪ Built and scaled a high-performing technical organization, recruiting and developing multiple directors and senior technical leaders while creating strong partnerships across 3,000+ person engineering organizations
✪ Served on a cross-Meta technical leadership council; primary author of new career expectations for individual contributors, managers, and directors
2020 — 2023
Menlo Park, CA
Led a 160+ person team, responsible for Meta's online data platforms, privacy infrastructure, and security systems, ensuring safe, secure, and compliant data access, across infrastructure handling hundreds of billions of daily requests serving nearly 4 billion monthly active users.
✪ Co-authored Meta's Privacy Safeguards framework, defining the technical requirements and controls to fulfill the company's FTC consent agreement—establishing the foundation for compliant data handling across all Meta products
✪ Designed and launched Meta's Privacy Review system, a systematic review process for all new product changes ensuring privacy-by-design principles are enforced before features reach users
✪ Drove cross-functional alignment across Core Data (databases, caches, worldwide distribution), Central Security (threat resilience, secure-by-default platforms), and Privacy Infrastructure (safe data access and processing environments)
✪ Established trusted x-company partnerships across engineering and legal stakeholders to navigate complex privacy and security requirements and drive clarity and decisions
✪ Scaled and led the organization through a period of significant regulatory focus, delivering critical compliance programs on tight timelines
✪ Built and quadrupled the team during rapid growth (scaling to 160+), recruiting multiple directors and developing senior technical leaders
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Menlo Park, CA
Shaped Meta's cloud infrastructure, the compute platform powering Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other products serving 3B+ users.
✪ Drove development of Meta's next-generation cloud platform, focused on worldwide scale, efficiency, reliability, and developer productivity
✪ Led programs spanning IaaS, Functions/PaaS, cluster management, service management, fleet-wide monitoring and observability, and performance optimization
✪ Established measurement frameworks connecting platform investments to developer productivity gains and time-to-market improvements
2016 — 2018
Greater Seattle Area
Led technical product management for Office 365's core platforms and infrastructure, driving the transformation from a product serving hundreds of millions of users to a data and AI platform.
✪ Launched Microsoft Graph API, enabling third-party developers to build on Office 365 data and insights
✪ Built eventing and data processing infrastructure powering machine learning and AI-driven productivity experiences
✪ Owned identity, authentication, security, and membership technologies for enterprise customers and tenants
✪ Developed deployment infrastructure for flighting new features across the Office 365 fleet with compliance-first approach
✪ Led developer evangelism efforts to onboard internal teams and external partners onto the platform
2009 — 2016
Greater Seattle Area
Led technical product management for Windows storage technologies scaling from tablets to data centers—powering devices, enterprise clouds, and Microsoft's own hyperscale services.
✪ Created unified, cloud-connected storage experience on Windows, giving users seamless access and protection for their data across locations; negotiated business development deals with third parties
✪ Enabled OS settings, apps, and data roaming for 800M+ Windows 10 users by building large-scale cloud sync services on Azure and OneDrive
✪ Delivered Resilient File System (ReFS) and Storage Spaces—foundations of Microsoft's Software-Defined Storage portfolio—building a $1B+ ecosystem with major enterprise OEMs
✪ Drove significant Azure COGS savings through improved hardware utilization
✪ Led enablement of SoC storage technologies (eMMC, UFS, SD) powering Surface, Xbox, HoloLens, and third-party devices
Education
Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
University of Oklahoma