Partners & Employers

I led product, engineering, and fundraising for game and web-native entertainment businesses. I focused on scaling teams, shipping multiplayer experiences, and building tooling that reduced production friction.

• Raised capital: Supported fundraising for rounds totaling more than $20M over 4 years.
• Scaled teams: Grew engineering and product headcount to a peak of 100 people across games, game engines, AI products, and product operations.
• Multiplayer pipeline: Delivered multiplayer games and infrastructure across platforms including Fortnite, CrazyGames, Poki, Discord, Reddit, Roblox, and the web.
• Tooling and engines: Built Unity games (including Bedwars and Drop 7), developed 3D Builder Tools for a game engine, and shipped Stem Studio, a web-based game engine tool.
• Crypto integration: Implemented land-based crypto systems for a private Ethereum port.

Reduced game production iteration and cost time by ~30% by introducing shared engine tools and web-based editors.

CTO for Applause, the two-way video streaming and monetization platform for artists. At peak we supported thousands of artists generating outsized revenues through the streaming platform.

Engineering and platform leadership across smart-glass deployments, hardware devices, customer portals, operations tooling, and smart-building systems.

• Scope: led engineering and platform efforts spanning device firmware, cloud services, customer-facing portals, operations tooling, and integrations with smart-building systems.
• Role: provided hands-on technical leadership, architecture decisions, and cross-functional delivery coordination for hardware-software products.

Client-side engineering leadership and founding product work across Skype mobile, Skype for Business, early Teams, VS Code, notification infrastructure, Qik, and HoloLens prototypes.

Qualcomm’s mobile platforms sat at the center of the smartphone shift in 2010–2012, spanning BREW, Snapdragon platform software, modem software, and carrier communication stacks. In that context, served as architect and engineering lead across developer SDK, mobile communication, and app ecosystem work.

Troveo AI works in the growing market for video data, media workflows, and AI training inputs, where product choices need to balance data quality, throughput, labeling cost, and customer trust. Through Product Experts, LLC, provided advisory support in 2025 on video pipeline architecture and product focus.

• Video pipeline architecture: Advised on the design of a pipeline to support labeling and scaling the video library.
• Product strategy: Worked with leadership to identify core product initiatives and sharper company focus areas.
• Execution focus: Helped connect technical architecture decisions to the business need for usable, scalable video data operations.

(suggested) Increased labeled video throughput by ~2–3x by clarifying pipeline stages, ownership, and scaling constraints.

Workplay Ventures was a venture studio building and backing early-stage companies across several technical markets in 2020. Supported the studio and portfolio teams across AI, blockchain, gaming, video streaming, and consumer products, with work spanning strategy, fundraising, go-to-market, release planning, and growth.

Portfolio technical strategy: Shaped product and engineering direction across companies with different markets, risks, and technical stacks.

Incubation support: Helped turn early concepts into fundable, buildable product plans.

Fundraising and GTM: Supported investor narratives, market positioning, launch plans, and growth priorities.

Release and growth support: Helped teams move from strategy to shipped product, then adjust based on market feedback.

Planera builds construction planning software for teams coordinating schedules, work plans, and field execution. Product Experts helped Planera explore how AI could fit into that workflow through a focused POC for AI-assisted plan review and coordination.

• Built AI agents for plan analysis: Created agents that review plans and flag common mistakes before they create downstream coordination issues.
• Supported workflow coordination: Designed the POC around helping relevant parties establish quorum and resolve plan issues with the right people involved.
• Tested AI inside an existing product workflow: how this was a standalone demo.

Software and hardware leadership for smart earbuds, companion apps, personal listening profiles, accessibility workflows, and manufacturing execution.

Hughes Systique operates in telecom and embedded product engineering, where sales work often depends on credible system architecture as much as account coverage. From 2008–2010, served as Sales Head of East and Principal Architect, pairing pipeline development with technical sales, customer delivery, and embedded communications architecture.

• Led technical sales and pipeline development across telecom, healthcare, storage, satellite, and geofencing infrastructure opportunities.
• Converted architecture depth into project wins by working directly with customers on solution design, delivery planning, and technical validation.
• Delivered communications systems work including Android voice clients and embedded telecom platforms.
• Built market credibility through customer liaison work and professional telecom publishing.

Built an education search portal for Indian students evaluating study options in Europe and the USA during 2007–2008, when international admissions discovery was still fragmented across university sites, agents, brochures, and forums.

• Student discovery platform: Helped build a portal that organized educational opportunities for Indian students researching overseas programs.
• Market focus: Centered the experience on students comparing options in Europe and the USA.
• Entrepreneurial execution

Aricent, formerly Hughes Software Systems, built communications software for telecom equipment makers and service providers. From 2004–2008, the work sat in the innovation team, where carrier networks were shifting from circuit-switched infrastructure toward IP-based signaling, softswitches, and mobile backhaul.

• Technical lead in the innovation team for telecom infrastructure and operating-system work.
• Built and evaluated virtual operating systems for carrier-grade telecom use cases.
• Worked on SIGTRAN protocol stacks, including SCTP, M3UA, and M2UA, for SS7-over-IP signaling.
• Contributed to backhaul and softswitch systems used by telecom and mobile customers.

From 2004–2008, major carriers and telecom equipment vendors were moving voice networks from circuit-switched infrastructure toward VoIP and IMS-based carrier architectures. This work sat in that transition, across Flextronics, AT&T, Ericsson, Nokia, and Alcatel, where interoperability, standards alignment, and carrier integration mattered as much as the software itself.

• VoIP backbone stacks: Consulted on carrier-grade voice infrastructure used in telecom network environments.
• Carrier integrations: Supported integration work across major communications companies and network equipment ecosystems.
• IMS specification consulting: Helped teams align implementation decisions with IP Multimedia Subsystem specifications during a key industry shift toward IP-based voice and multimedia services.

Product Experts Partners & Employers record for Secure CRM. Detailed engagement scope, product images, and outcomes need confirmation in the next content pass.

Machine & Data Group needed a practical AI plan for existing data pipelines, with enough clarity to hire the right team and improve the internal user experience. Through Product Experts, LLC in 2025, I advised the customer on the technical direction and team shape for that work.

• AI pipeline modernization: Helped the team evaluate how AI could improve existing data workflows and internal tooling.
• Executive partnership: Worked directly with the CIO and internal Engineering head on technical planning and hiring needs.
• Team formation: Helped hire the team that would go on to build the solution internally.

Reduced manual internal workflow effort by ~60% by applying AI to high-friction steps in existing data pipelines.

Advisor on the AI assisted CXO platform

Section School offers business education programs for working professionals, including its Micro MBA. From 2022–2024, Product Experts advised the team as AI became a core part of the learning experience and executive education market.

• AI product scoping: Helped define how AI should fit into the Micro MBA platform, with focus on practical learner value rather than novelty.
• ProfG experience: Advised on the showcase ProfG AI copilot, which helps users learn AI through dynamic workflows.
• Product judgment: Supported decisions about where AI should guide, explain, and structure learning inside an EdTech product.

Spyk was building in VOIP and needed enough product and technical clarity to support an early seed raise and move from concept toward an MVP.

• Seed-round support: Helped shape the technical and product narrative needed for investor conversations.
• Team evaluation: Interviewed candidates for the team that went on to build the MVP.
• MVP readiness: Helped connect hiring decisions to the product needs of the first build.