Build to production
Ship systems operators can trust.
Cloud architecture and hardened backends first. AI agents and private retrieval when the work demands it — evaluated as a security problem, not a demo.
Cloud Security · Infrastructure · AI Systems. Founder of Cipher Projects and SumoSign.
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One standard across all three: software that ships and compounds.
Ship systems operators can trust.
Cloud architecture and hardened backends first. AI agents and private retrieval when the work demands it — evaluated as a security problem, not a demo.
Senior technical partnership without theatre.
Fractional CTO and advisory for founders and leadership teams — architecture, delivery, and enough operator presence to keep decisions honest.
Selective stakes in software and infrastructure.
Backing early-stage companies where build capacity and systems judgment matter — investor and operator, not a spectator seat.
Read the operating layer.
Vision in writing. Durable facts in the machine file.
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