I'm a software engineer and engineering leader based in Coquitlam, BC. I've spent the last seventeen years building software at startups, and the last nine leading engineering teams.
I'm Head of Engineering, Sportsbook at Betr, where I lead nine engineers across two product teams working on large-scale, cross-platform systems. As a side project, I run Saltr Labs, building custom AI employees for businesses: digital teammates that take the repetitive busywork off a team's plate so people can focus on the work only they can do.
I also build my own products. Rinkflow is an AI-powered practice planning app for hockey coaches, who are mostly volunteers juggling full-time jobs and families and spending hours piecing together plans from scratch. And for fun, I build little side projects like Furmous, a silly AI pet-portrait store I made to make my kids laugh that accidentally turned into a real, working store, payments and all.
I care about building software that solves real problems for real people. I believe the best products come from engineers who stay close to the users and close to the code. I think AI is going to fundamentally change how software gets built, and I'm proving that out at Betr and through my own products.
When I'm not writing code or in 1:1s, I'm coaching my kids' hockey and soccer teams.
A joke for my kids, taken way too far. How modern AI tooling snowballed a silly side project into a live store taking real payments (furmous.com) in about four weeks, and the sharp edges I hit on the way.
I cold-emailed hundreds of hockey associations leading with "AI-powered," and it was quietly costing me the exact customers I most wanted. People want to buy a solution, not a technology.
Our Coquitlam U11 A3 Comets won a contest to play a game at Rogers Arena as part of the Canucks Minor Hockey Weekend.
What happens when you coordinate multiple AI agents on a single problem instead of working with just one.