Background

Two decades of shipping — the full record, with dates and numbers.

Timeline

2023 — present

Wand Technologies (acquired by Krea · Forbes AI 50) — CTO. Second exit. Built the custom Metal drawing engine behind an Apple Design Award–nominated AI art app, and led the $4.2M-seed startup through acquisition.

2018 — present

Hermetic Ventures — Founder. Studio shipping apps, games, and AI agents for a global client base; building ExpertFounder, an accelerator for technical founders shipping AI products.

2011 — 2022

Apps & games played by millions — Founder and engineer across a run of hits: Rapper Run to #3 on the US App Store (Gameplay.fm), the Battle Camp graphics engine (40M+ installs), Beat Fever to #1 in Music Games (WRKSHP), Apple's iOS 11 Files partnership at Box, and the #1 AI dash cam at Driver.

2009 — 2010

Xpert Financial (now Coinbase) — CTO. First exit. Patented the nation's first FINRA- and SEC-approved electronic trading system for private securities; raised $1.9M from Tim Draper.

2007 — 2009

Apple — Working on the Xcode Team at Apple writing sample code and programming guides for vImage and OpenCL.

Class of 2008

Brown University — BA, Computer Science. Sold my first software (DormInform) to the university as an undergraduate.

Stack & craft

Swift · SwiftUI · UIKit · Objective-C · Metal · MetalKit · Core ML · Core Animation · iOS · visionOS · Unity · Flutter · Node.js · Claude Code · Codex · OpenAI · Gemini · Midjourney · Flux · Stable Diffusion · LlamaIndex · llama.cpp · LLM pipelines · zero-to-one · team building · fundraising ($6.1M+ raised) · two exits · M&A

Noted

“Probably the best presenter of the day” — Reuven Cohen, Forbes, 2012.

One-pager

A single-page bio with the numbers, for forwarding: download the bio (PDF).

Get in touch

I'm heads-down building ExpertFounder and advising a small number of companies. I keep an open inbox for hard problems — if you think I should hear about one, write me.