i'm a CTO and founding engineer.
i make things. mostly websites.
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SoftCole
my grandmother was a special-education teacher who started SoftCole with our family and built Type to Learn, one of the first typing games. my mom narrated it. my dad dropped a crate of my Legos in front of his microphone to make its game-over sound. i was four or five, watching the grownups play in the computer room. that's when i learned that making things and playing were the same thing.
patch.com
in the summer of '08, i moved to New York City, and started my first job as the first front-end engineer at a startup that was building a yet-unnamed network of local news sites. we ended up calling it Patch, and later sold it to AOL.
kickstarter.com
a few of my friends started building a new website that would let artists raise money from their communities to fund their creative projects. as a maker myself, i was thrilled to help, so i joined them as the twelfth employee and third engineer.
jukely.com
once Kickstarter was established, i was looking for new ways to empower artists, and one of my friends had started a company designed to bring people out to live music events, with a particular focus on discovering bands at the beginning of their careers. it began as an iPhone app, so they brought me on to build their website as the lead web engineer.
abacus.com
from my experience at Kickstarter, i knew that once creative projects got to a certain point and spun into their own companies, they needed a whole suite of supporting software. i was glad to help build financial products for young companies.
actblue.com
during the 2016 election, i got involved with all-virtual volunteer groups of technical folks that were building technology to help progressive campaigns win elections. in 2017 i started looking for a way to do that work full time, and i found ActBlue, a non-profit tech company that builds a fundraising platform for progressives, which perfectly fit both my background and my ideals.
Lemontree
once i had worked in political fundraising for a full election cycle (and helped elect a president!), i wanted to build a non-profit tech company from day one. so i joined Lemontree as the founding engineer, and built a platform that connects people to free food in their communities. what started as a small NYC helpline helped over a million people in 11 regions in 2025. i became CTO in June 2023, finished that role in May 2026, and now serve as an advisor.