I build Whelk: private AI and agents that run on hardware you own.

Whelk is open core, private by default, and secure by design. It scales from one phone to a whole team on your own server. Mentorship & Advisory is where I sit with founders and CTOs at the hard calls. The essays are field notes from both.

Before this: Chief AI Officer and CTO at BuildOps through its unicorn round, public-company CTO at Weedmaps, and VP of Engineering at ShopKeep (acquired by Lightspeed for $440M).