- Tech advisor for early startups on hiring, building MVP, scaling architecture, engineering roadmaps - Fractional CTO & engineering leadership services for early stage VC-backed startups - Tech due diligence & post-close integration for PE firms and strategic acquirers - Tech consulting for SMBs to increase efficiency, grow revenue, and solve businesses challenges https://hwconsulting.tech/

- helped the founder create a product engineering strategy and product roadmap - recruited the founding lead engineer, built a globally distributed small engineering team of 4 - advised on MVP system architecture and helped create a generative AI engineering strategy along with system architecture

- Partnered with AI research, data science, technical writing, data engineering, and other Search teams to build and launch Search AI Overview feature. Led my teams in textualization, RAG, and quality evals - Owned multiple high profile Search teams with search traffic up to 4% of all Google Search - Championed a lean product development paradigm that focuses on metric-driven early, frequent experimentations, and fail-fast. It resulted in experimenting with 5x more product ideas and 83% faster time spent to discard ideas without growth potential in a year. - Developed growth strategies and 3-year roadmaps with cross-functional stakeholders in each team owned

- Advise NachoNacho on software engineering and product development. - Helped create and scale cloud system architecture on AWS

- Contributed to the long-term (5+ years) product roadmap for Sonder - Created and grew strong cross-functional partnerships with product, design, operations, finance. Led my engineering org that successfully supported the growth of 2 of the 4 business domains at the company. - Created and executed a tech strategy with xFN, xDomain stakeholders that built a product-ecosystem which connected the booking, access, operational task management, and supply chain management systems into a connected platform. It created 22% of operational efficiency and cost-savings. - Led and drove the company-wide effort to create an SOP for the software procurement process that was adopted by the senior leadership team (C-suite + SVPs). - Successfully championed and drove the adoption of a low-code product development paradigm that allowed teams to build high-impact products with 78% less costs and 75% shorter time to delivery

- Drove the engineering initiative to shift the architecture from a monolith to microservices in order to sustain the growth and the scale of the product. - Raised the engineering output by an average of 20% across all 4 teams by revamping development processes, building the right sub-culture for each team, and mentoring and elevating the right leaders-in-training. - Rebuilt the engineering career rubric for the entire engineering org from the ground up which resulted in much-needed clarity in leveling, expectations, and processes. - Partnered closely with the recruiting team in engineering IC and leadership recruiting efforts across all teams in the US and Canada. Built the Montreal product engineering office from the ground up.

- Led and drove the growth of the ML-based farm land valuation product by 10x in 1 year - Closely collaborated with data science, product, and QA to re-architect and rebuild the data pipeline that supports model training and retraining on AWS. Reduced new data processing time from 2 weeks to 1 day. - Grew the engineering team by 5X and built out a QA team of 3