Engineering leader for state and local public technology
I learned this work inside California government and carried it into statewide workforce services, transit data, housing, energy, utilities, and social services. I lead teams, set architecture, and write code for public systems that make decisions clearer and leave people with more agency.
Senior engineering leadership, full time. VP, Head of Engineering, Director, or principal-level roles in state, local, and mission-forward public-interest organizations, where I can lead people and stay close to the architecture.
Fractional or interim engineering leadership, civic systems diagnostics, and public-data quality work. One or two days a week on an ongoing basis, or most of a week for a fixed interim term.
I led engineering from a 400-file prototype into a bilingual statewide decision service, built its program-level evidence, and did the 2023 data modeling that began the state's migration to Credential Engine's CTDL standard.
Resident services, caregiver background checks, regulatory energy data, certification workflows, licensing, and claims systems.
Plain-language quality scorecards for public GTFS feeds, drawn from a curated registry of more than 2,100 feed records concentrated in the United States and Canada with reviewed cohorts across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. It prioritizes rider-facing fixes, scores realtime only when a usable feed is configured, and publishes a read API, GitHub Action, and read-only MCP server. Feed records are not necessarily distinct agencies.
I designed and deployed a California housing-permitting prototype that screens a bounded statewide ADU, JADU, and SB 9 baseline across 541 recognized jurisdictions and produces a printable handoff for local staff. Woodland remains the deep synthetic packet fixture; no applicant, planner, or jurisdiction has validated it.
I designed and built a working local-first alpha that turns conditions, repair requests, responses, and captured media into a source-aware repair trail and deliberate review copy—without a project-operated tenant-case database. It has only synthetic examples and is not ready for real legal matters.
Leadership scale without losing the technical thread.
I came up inside California government and later led a 22-person engineering structure through three Directors. I’m looking for state, local, or mission-forward public-interest work where organizational leadership and hands-on technical judgment both matter. I am not considering federal contracting roles.
I'm open to senior engineering leadership and principal-level technical work in state, local, and mission-forward public-interest organizations. I am not considering federal contracting roles.
If you need an engineering leader who helps people grow and still writes code, I'd like to talk.
Notes from the work: engineering leadership, accessibility, public systems, and AI people can inspect.
I moved from principal engineer to managing managers without wanting to leave the architecture behind. The harder lesson was how to stay accountable without making myself the route every important decision had to travel.
I built GTFS Scorecard to turn transit-data findings into repairs. It taught me that civic technology earns trust through explicit judgment, honest unknowns, preserved evidence, and proof that a change reached the source.
A career pivot cannot launder surveillance and military-AI work into moral authority or create a claim on anyone’s trust.
I’m also open to mission-forward public-interest organizations. I am not considering federal contracting roles.