Technology leader and consultant with expertise in software engineering, solution architecture, security, plus AI theory and practice. Extensive experience solving complex problems efficiently, on projects ranging from government platforms to cutting-edge startups. Hands-on generalist who gets stuff done. Career Highlights: - Currently Director of the Footbag Hall of Fame, running an open-source software project for the sport. The new Footbag Worldwide website is hosted on AWS, in development now with the help of Claude Code. Have a look at the GitHub repo (follow link in my Experience section). - Recently I worked on a distributed HPC team, improving LLM inference performance for accelerator chips. For this team I also designed MyTorch, a drop-in replacement for PyTorch that runs ML workloads on cloud GPUs without having to change a single line of code. - Led the software team for the award-winning 4DWX meteorology platform at NCAR. - Professor of object-oriented software design (also C++ and Java) at the University of Colorado. - Co-founder of the Software Federation consulting firm, delivering solutions for clients for 11 years, before moving to New Zealand. - Principal Solutions Architect at Inland Revenue NZ. Credentials: - MS in Computational Linguistics (AI focus), Carnegie Mellon University - BS in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University (with distinction) Recent Certifications: - AWS Solutions Architect - Associate - AWS ML Specialty - CompTIA Security+ Languages: - English (native) - Spanish (fluent) - Brazilian Portuguese (fluent) - French (conversational) Open to AI engineering and solutions/software architect roles globally, or consulting in Tauranga, NZ. Available for contract or full-time. I bring deep experience, up-to-date knowledge, and I get stuff done. Dual citizen of the USA and New Zealand.…Technology leader and consultant with expertise in software engineering, solution architecture, security, plus AI theory and practice. Extensive experience solving complex problems efficiently, on projects ranging from government platforms to cutting-edge startups. Hands-on generalist who gets stuff done. Career Highlights: - Currently Director of the Footbag Hall of Fame, running an open-source software project for the sport. The new Footbag Worldwide website is hosted on AWS, in development now with the help of Claude Code. Have a look at the GitHub repo (follow link in my Experience section). - Recently I worked on a distributed HPC team, improving LLM inference performance for accelerator chips. For this team I also designed MyTorch, a drop-in replacement for PyTorch that runs ML workloads on cloud GPUs without having to change a single line of code. - Led the software team for the award-winning 4DWX meteorology platform at NCAR. - Professor of object-oriented software design (also C++ and Java) at the University of Colorado. - Co-founder of the Software Federation consulting firm, delivering solutions for clients for 11 years, before moving to New Zealand. - Principal Solutions Architect at Inland Revenue NZ. Credentials: - MS in Computational Linguistics (AI focus), Carnegie Mellon University - BS in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University (with distinction) Recent Certifications: - AWS Solutions Architect - Associate - AWS ML Specialty - CompTIA Security+ Languages: - English (native) - Spanish (fluent) - Brazilian Portuguese (fluent) - French (conversational) Open to AI engineering and solutions/software architect roles globally, or consulting in Tauranga, NZ. Available for contract or full-time. I bring deep experience, up-to-date knowledge, and I get stuff done. Dual citizen of the USA and New Zealand.WWWW…