Founder and CTO who scaled Evernote to 150M users and helped lead Livongo's IPO and ~$15B merger with Teladoc
View on LinkedInI am a hands-on tech leader with 30 years of experience in the industry, engineering big, secured systems of various sorts before moving into VP and CTO roles for nearly two decades. I have led engineering, IT, and Security at Evernote and Livongo, growing teams to ~130 and ~180 people, respectively. I stayed sharp as the de facto lead data engineer for all warehouse/lake/etc. systems at both companies while executing management tasks.
After receiving degrees from Stanford and UC Berkeley, I designed and built multiple secure platforms used by tens of millions of people, including cryptographic authentication infrastructure used by government and military agencies (at CoreStreet), knowledge management for more than 150 million global users (Evernote), and remote chronic disease management with >3 billion records (Livongo, then Teladoc). I joined Livongo to lead the 15-person engineering and IT teams, which were building software to help 14,000 people with diabetes. Over four years, we grew to 180 team members serving more than half a million people living with diabetes, hypertension, prediabetes, and behavioral health conditions — culminating in an IPO and merger with Teladoc Health.
I am passionate about utilizing my expertise to help early-stage companies build teams from the bottom up and mentor first-time CTOs or heads of engineering to help them navigate common challenges. I enjoy solving complex data challenges, particularly medical technology security concerns, and guiding teams/organizations through releasing and scaling.
