Experience &
Milestones.
From enterprise AI drive-thrus and security architectures to early-stage SaaS ventures. Fully codified from day one.
Part Owner & V1 Lead Architect at Automotive AI Platform Venture (Genubi)
Chicago, IL
Spearheaded and delivered the production-ready V1 rebuild of the flagship AI coaching, analysis, and evaluation platform for automotive dealerships. Engineered a 5-service monorepo leveraging React Native with native audio background persistence, async FastAPI backends, Next.js dashboards, and Gemini AI (165+ commits, 40+ automated CI/CD pipelines live on GCP Cloud Run under a 99.5% uptime SLA). Upon successful V1 delivery, transitioned from active lead software engineer to Part Owner operating under a 12-month maintenance & advisory agreement.
Founder & Principal Architect at VMG Systems
Chicago, IL
Formulated and operate an elite technical consulting practice built around the 'Clean Slate' methodology: 100% Terraform-codified infrastructure, zero ClickOps, async Python services, and comprehensive observability. Built and dogfood a 10-service self-hosted AI operating system as an experimental proving ground for client builds. Advising multiple startups and growth-stage enterprises on migrating high-cost unmanaged SaaS stacks to modular, async, fully observable cloud-native platforms.
Enterprise IAM Solutions Architect at Leading Enterprise Identity Platforms (IAM)
Remote / Chicago, IL
Designed, federated, and audited high-scale secure authentication systems and user-identity lifecycles for fortune-level enterprises. Configured complex custom OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows, SAML federation hubs, and fine-grained API authorization tokens. This deep security background is the foundation of the strict 'Security on Day 1' protocol built into every single VMG Systems engagement today.
Core Technology Advisor at Fortune 100 Global QSR Brand
Chicago, IL
Pioneered architectural contributions to the Automated Order Taker (AOT), a flagship AI-powered drive-thru voice recognition platform. Deployed across 14,000+ locations globally and patent-pending. Directed video ethnography research pipelines, edge-to-cloud analytics integrations, and optimized real-time speech processing topologies that improved automated order accuracy to 82%.
Patent Filed: Voice recognized data analysis at USPTO Patent Core
Chicago, IL
Filed core utility patent outlining a proprietary, low-latency framework for processing voice-recognized real-time audio inputs to trigger automatic corrective systems in business execution pipelines. Deployed aspects of this core IP in both drive-thru AI structures and active venture backends.
Director of Technology at Specialized Research & Video Analytics Firm
Chicago, IL · Singapore · Hong Kong
Directed full-scale technical design and operations for a specialized video analytics and ethnographic research firm servicing high-profile Fortune 500 accounts. Spearheaded video collection pipelines for a Global QSR Brand's Innovation Center Laboratory, supervising deployments across key markets in South-East Asia.
B.S. Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Chicago, IL
Awarded First Place at the UIC Engineering EXPO for the design and firmware implementation of an innovative 'Wireless Price Tag Display' system.
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