CTO|VP Engineering

EDUCATION

• Master of ScienceInformation Technology / eBusinessCarnegie Mellon UniversitySchool of Computer Science
• Bachelor of ScienceNeuroscienceUniversity of California, RiversideSchool of Natural & Agricultural Sciences
• DiplomaHuntington Beach High SchoolDwyer Middle SchoolHuntington Christian School

EXPERTISE

• Performance Engineering for High Volumes
• Recruiting -> Training -> Team Building
• Multi-Million CAPEX & OPEX Control
• P&L, Balance Sheet, Forecasting, ROI
• Design + Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Technology Budgets, Governance / Compliance, Roadmaps
• SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, DESIGN.md, ARCHITECTURE.md
• Python, C#, R, Ruby, React, Tailwind, TypeScript, SQL
• Agentic workflows, text embedding, fine-tuning LLMs, MCP

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Behavior.todayCo-Founder / CTO of health-tech SaaS; data dashboards for Applied Behavior Analysis.
• Last10K.comCo-Founder / CTO of wealth-tech SaaS; top paid mobile app in Apple App Store (2022)
• Revenut.comBuilt open source / FOSS mobile + web app and API for SaaS revenue forecasting.
• CE.UCI.eduTenured 10-year teacher for Division of Continuing Education.

EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE

1. 2024 – Present

   Fractional CTO

   |AmarKota.com

   Working with early-stage startups through participation in renowned global accelerator programs and developing entire tech stacks.
2. 2022 – 2023

   Chief Architect

   |Finfare, Inc.

   Owned end-to-end multi-product architecture, roadmap and $3M budget for single-page application (SPA), microservices, analytics platform with AWS cloud architecture.
3. 2019 – 2022

   Enterprise Architect

   |The Pacific Financial Group

   Reporting to Chief Product Officer, responsible for $2M budget of onboarding 30+ person onshore + offshore DevOps and SecOps with AWS.
4. 2017 – 2018

   Vice President, Technology

   |Training Consultants

   Reporting to CEO, responsible for $1M budget of all technology + cloud / Azure changes that will serve new exam restructure set forth by regulating authority.
5. 2017 – 2018

   Chief Technology Officer

   |California Southern University

   Reporting to University President, managed $1.5M P&L for software engineering, DevOps, QA, business intelligence, product management and technical support of student learning and back-office systems hosted on Microsoft Azure.
6. 2010 – 2015

   Senior Manager, Product Development & Technology

   |Ria Financial

   Reporting to General Manager, managed $5M P&L by hiring 11 engineers to create ‘Payment-as-a-Service’ global money transfer platform on Microsoft Azure.

ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

1. 2005 – 2015

   Teacher

   |University of California, Irvine

   Object-Oriented Analysis & Design teacher for the Division of Continuing Education
2. 2007 – 2009

   Systems Architect

   |Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company

   Hired and led a team of developers in the creation of proprietary Risk Management applications.
3. 2006 – 2007

   .NET Engineer

   |MySpace.com

   Lead developer for Localization and Video teams.
4. 2000 – 2006

   Senior Systems Analyst

   |UnitedHealth Group

   Lead web developer for pharmacy benefits website, RxSolutions.com