📍 Santa Barbara, CA · CTO · Product Leader · AI Research

20+ years leading product and engineering from founding to scale — Director of Technology at Ask.com (IAC) and OneRiot (acq. Walmart Labs); co-founded IMRSV (acq. Kairos) and Evidation Health ($1B+ digital health, millions of users). Led cross-functional orgs spanning product, engineering, infra, security, data science, and TPM. PhD in CS (AI & Epidemiology) with 18 publications (~3,000 citations), 10 patents, and 18+ conference talks. TechStars mentor, angel investor, and startup advisor. Currently building multi-modal health foundation models and LLM-driven workflows.

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• ✈️ LayoverQuest — Turn your layovers into adventures. LayoverQuest helps travelers discover interesting stopover ci...
• 📑 Tiny Markdown Render — Tiny Chrome Extension that Render Markdown as clean HTML
• 📝 AppleNoted — Lightweight IMAP4rev1 encrypted server to edit/sync Apple Notes across devices
• 👨‍💼 Candidates Manager — A clean, low-touch candidate tracking system powered by LLM
• 👖 /meet — Create Google Meet links instantly with a Slack command
• 🤖 Timelog Bot — Simple time/project tracking via Slack Bot
• 📨 Tri@ge — Intelligent, keyboard-driven email client for Gmail
• ⛓️ Coworker — Flexible GitHub App to orchestrates automated multi-agent PR reviews using LLM agents
• 💬 Health Chat — ChatGPT-like health app that guides users through health-related questions and validates response...
• 👥 ResourceFlow — Web-based resource and budget privacy-first planning tool
• 📝 Blog Copilot — Mobile-first PWA for managing a blog via Jekyll/GitHub Pages
• 📑 Slack Channel Summarizer — Slack Function to Summarize the content of a Channel
• 📆 Google Tasks to Calendar — Intelligently Schedule Google Tasks on your Calendar
• 🔐 Simple Passphrase Generator — Simple Chrome Extension that Generates Random Passphrases
• 📚 Morning Reads — Generates a daily digest of TLDR Tech articles in both EPUB and email formats
• 🛍️ HelpMeBuy — Apple-inspired web application to help users find their perfect washing machine
• 💾 APImock — Simple but convenient mock API server
• 🗓️ Calendars — Useful Calendars to be added to my Google Calendar
• 🧑‍⚖️ OSS Audit — Open Source Software Auditor
• 🔎 Private Golinks Server — Hosted Golinks Server via DNS

• VS Extension for Coworking — Next-gen IDE will have to be built around LLMs/human interaction. I am experimenting with what that may be. Code, graphs, explanations on the edges. The machine writes the code but the human architects it and is in the know.
• Claude Cowork — Pair programming with AI agents — how multi-agent collaboration is changing the way code gets written.
• OpenClaw — Open-source personal assistant with memory, personality and initiative. Trying to run my own on a cheap Fly.io machine and interact with it via Telegram.
• Requirements as Code — Encoding requirements so AI agents can follow them — moving from natural language specs to machine-verifiable constraints.
• Fine-tuning LLMs for corporate codebases — Context management at scale — exploring how to fine-tune models on proprietary code without leaking sensitive data.

• The 10,000 Hour Reset - you need side projects (Mar 14, 2026)
• SaaS will suffer in 2026 (Feb 24, 2026)
• Teladoc and COVID Paved the Way for AI Doctors (Feb 23, 2026)
• Securing OpenClaw via Proxy (Feb 10, 2026)
• Startups Are Now Just MVPs for Tech Giants (Feb 7, 2026)

➡️ More on the blog

• Co-Founder & CTO at Evidation Health (2013–present) — Digital health platform connecting millions of users to research and health insights with AI across every product. Own engineering, produ...
• Co-Founder & CTO at IMRSV / Immersive Labs (2011–2013) — Computer vision startup — real-time face detection and audience analytics for digital billboards. TechStars NYC 2011.
• Director of Search Technology at OneRiot (2009–2011) — Real-time social search engine indexing and ranking content shared across social networks.
• Director of Technology, Answers at Ask.com (2006–2009) — Search technology, NLP, classification and spam detection for a top-5 US search engine.

• 28 publications · ~3,000 citations · 10 patents
• Notable venues: PLoS ONE, KDD, WWW, IEEE ICSC
• Google Scholar · Full list

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