Director of Product Management and Technology Leader specializing in AI,
Observability, and Security. Driving product strategy for Elastic's
Observability suite while serving as a core maintainer for FastMCP, the most
popular framework for building AI tools. Proven track record of leading
technical products to significant business outcomes, including a $200M exit
as CTO of Verve Industrial Protection.
Direct the Data Ingest portfolio — OpenTelemetry Collector, EDOT SDKs and Profiling, Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agent. These are the tools customers rely on to move petabytes of data daily into Elasticsearch and Elastic Cloud.
Regular ElasticON keynote speaker, presenting roadmaps across GenAI, Search, Observability, and Security.
Led Elastic's largest product launch in a decade — Elastic Serverless — at AWS re:Invent in December 2024.
Member of Elastic's AI Guild, responsible for accelerating the adoption of GenAI technologies across Elastic's product portfolio.
Senior Technical Product Manager — Security
Amazon
Remote · Madison, WI
Led product management for a 120-person business unit with teams across Toronto, Seattle, and India.
Protected Amazon customer data from nation-state adversaries using high-security devices built on Amazon-custom silicon, firmware, and operating systems.
Directed development, procurement, delivery, and support for hardware deployed to 500,000+ Amazon employees and contractors across 100+ countries.
Chief Technology Officer
Verve Industrial Protection
Madison, WI
Grew a software business from 5 employees to more than 80 across engineering, product, IT, and support.
Launched a turnkey security, observability, and data-lake product for critical infrastructure — trusted by Berkshire Hathaway, Baxter Pharmaceuticals, Duracell, and others.
Delivered against key sales and market objectives leading to a $200M+ acquisition by Rockwell Automation, forming the foundation of its cybersecurity portfolio.
Technical Product Manager
Ivanti (RES Software)
Remote · Madison, WI
Served as the sole Technical Product Manager providing Application Whitelisting expertise to US Federal Agencies implementing the DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program across five million endpoints.
Accelerated project delivery, transforming it from one year behind schedule to three months ahead of schedule.
Principal Consultant and Services Product Manager
Tech Data (Avnet)
Remote · Madison, WI
Coordinated delivery of Identity and Access Management, Security Information and Event Management, Patch Management, and Vulnerability Management services into key business partners and customers.
Endpoint Security Specialist
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI
Endpoint Security in compliance-heavy environments covering Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS), Payment Card Industry (PCI), and Select-Agent bio-hazard programs.
Personal projects and open-source
py-key-value
A top-1000 open-source Python library with more than 2 million downloads per day. Abstracts 15+ key-value and KV-compatible stores (in-memory, Redis, Valkey, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, and more) behind one consistent async interface.
FastMCP — core maintainer
One of two core maintainers for the most popular Python framework for Model Context Protocol. Architected and delivered Tool Transformation, MCP Sampling capabilities, Storage, and the MCP server-wrapping composition model.
OSS contributions (Dec 2024 – present)
19 PRs in LlamaIndex (DuckDB, FlashRerank, performance); 7 PRs in PydanticAI (MCP support, Dynamic Tools, Tool Calling); additional PRs in litellm, docling; 2 ES|QL query-planning PRs in Elasticsearch.
Log4Shell Detection
Open-sourced a Log4j detection tool with 90% fewer resources, 99% less time to run, and zero false positives. Used by more than 150 companies.
National Vulnerability Database error coordination
Coordinated with NIST to identify and correct thousands of errors in the National Vulnerability Database.
Microsoft Bug Bounty
Public recognition and a $3,000 bug bounty for a private vulnerability disclosure to Microsoft.
Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities
Privately disclosed several major vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerShell Core and Windows Defender Application Control.
IBM BigFix vulnerabilities
Privately disclosed several major vulnerabilities in IBM BigFix software. Earlier public CVEs include CVE-2016-0214, CVE-2017-1222, and CVE-2017-1466.
BigFix C3 Content
Principal maintainer of open-source Inventory, Security, and Compliance content for IBM BigFix. Used by hundreds of organizations managing 10 million+ endpoints.
Certifications
ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
BigFix Platform Professional
CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner
Intel Security Product Specialist — ePO
MaaS360 (MDM) Cloud Administrator
Microsoft Certified Security Expert: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure (Charter Member)
Microsoft Certified Security Expert: Windows Server 2012r2
Microsoft Windows IoT for Device Builders
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 — Mission Critical and Hybrid