// technical fellow & solutions architect
Building AI Agents That Let Small Teams Do Big Things
I help early-stage startups scale to 100M+ calls without the 100-person overhead. Enterprise architecture on a shoestring budget — backed by 40+ years of building and scaling systems.
// about
Background
I'm a hands-on product and engineering executive with over four decades of experience building software systems — from bare-metal infrastructure to cloud-native platforms to AI-powered automation. My career spans enterprise architecture, startup CTO roles, and engineering leadership across fintech, e-commerce, and developer tools.
I've built and led globally distributed, 100% remote engineering organizations, and I'm a strong believer that the best teams are built on mentorship, trust, and asking the right questions — not micromanagement.
These days, I'm focused on the intersection of AI agents and startup efficiency. I believe small, well-tooled teams can outperform organizations ten times their size when they leverage intelligent automation strategically. This conviction led me to build Kaigents, a production-grade substrate for operating AI agent teams in complex enterprise environments.
Based in Pasadena, California — and outside of my primary role — I remain passionate about working with founders and engineers to design and build AI agent systems that handle the work of entire departments, letting humans focus on the creative, strategic work that actually moves the needle.
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What I Work On
AI Agent Engineering
FeaturedDesigning and building autonomous AI agent systems that handle complex workflows — from LLM orchestration and tool use to RAG pipelines and multi-agent coordination.
System Architecture
Crafting scalable, maintainable architectures for products that need to grow. Microservices, event-driven systems, and cloud-native infrastructure designed for real-world load.
Data Engineering
Building data pipelines and ML infrastructure that turn raw information into actionable intelligence. From ETL to real-time analytics to ML model deployment.
Engineering Leadership
Building and scaling engineering teams that ship great software. Mentorship, technical strategy, and creating cultures where engineers do their best work.
// projects
What I'm Building
Kaigents
ActiveGA v1.0.0. A production-grade, Kubernetes-native substrate for operating AI agent teams. Built for low TCO on AMD Ryzen AI hardware with durable execution via Temporal.
Impact
Provides the enterprise-grade visibility, durability, and governance needed to move AI agents from prototype to production at scale.
KaiManager
ActiveGA v1.0.0. The management layer for Kaigents. Provides first-class surfaces for agent personas, quality gates, and process health monitoring.
Impact
Enables non-technical process owners to manage and govern AI agent teams with production-grade visibility.
KaiCatalog
ActiveGA v1.0.0. The curated tool registry for the Kaigents ecosystem. Features 40+ pre-vetted MCP servers with security posture ratings and air-gapped support.
Impact
Reduces tool discovery and deployment time from hours to seconds for enterprise AI agent teams.
KaiCLI
ActiveGA v1.0.0. The operator interface for Kaigents. A unified command-line tool for managing MCP tools, personas, and platform health.
Impact
Provides a powerful, scriptable interface for platform engineers and AI operators to manage agent substrate.
TeamKnowl
ActiveGA v1.0.0. A Kubernetes-native, Git-driven knowledge base platform. Features an Obsidian-like experience with sharded indexing and S3-compatible storage (CEPH) for AI + Human teams.
Impact
Enables horizontally scalable, self-healing shared memory for autonomous AI agents and engineering teams.
CodeKnowl
ActiveGA v1.0.0 / Launch Ready. On-prem, local-first codebase analyst that provides a structured relationship store and knowledge base for high-parallelism AI agent workflows.
Impact
Provides deep codebase understanding with citations, enabling AI agents to reason accurately about complex systems.
AI Agents for Startup Automation
ActiveA suite of autonomous agents handling operational workflows from customer support triage to internal knowledge management.
Impact
Reduces operational overhead by 40%, letting lean teams punch 10x above their weight.
AMD Ryzen Monitoring in Linux
ActiveHigh-performance Rust CLI tool for real-time AMD Ryzen AI NPU telemetry and AI workload optimization.
Impact
Enables hardware-aware AI workload scaling for edge and local processing.
// contact
Let's Connect
I'm always interested in talking with founders building ambitious products, engineers solving hard problems, and anyone thinking about how AI agents will reshape how we work.