Tech Sketches LLC

Engineering Management Services

Need help scaling your startup's engineering team?


About me

πŸ“New York, NY
πŸ”Ÿ A decade of startup experience

  • Founder & CEO @ Dream Museums

  • Director of Engineering @ Welcome
    (Acquired by Optimizely)

  • Senior Software Engineer @ VTS
    (Joined at Series A, currently $1.7 billion)

  • Co-founder & CTO @ Farmplicity
    (Acquired by Sunfarm Food Service)

  • Triple Major @ Washington University STL


Dream Museums

Founder & CEO

Dream Museums is my current project. I'm learning iOS development and bootstrapping the whole company. I've been working on it full-time for 6 months but am open to consulting work now that the app is in a more steady state.


Welcome (Acquired by Optimizely)

Director of Engineering

  • 4 years of growing from Senior to Lead to Director

  • Oversaw the NY Engineering team of over 20 engineers

  • Mentored engineers and managers weekly to develop career goals

  • Hired and promoted engineers to meet demands of the business

  • Streamlined processes with best practices for communication, software quality, and customer requirements


VTS ($1.7B Real Estate Software)

Senior Software Engineer

  • 4 years of company growth from Series A,B,C + Merger while company 7x'd headcount

  • Tech lead for broker products which accounted for over 80% of daily active users

  • Led recruitment process and grew engineering team from 10 to over 30

  • Started VTS engineering blog which helped hiring


Services offered

  • Department plan based your desired engineering culture

  • Efficient + impactful operating framework: standups, code reviews, meeting best practices, task tracking

  • Develop a hiring plan for Head of Engineering

  • Develop a hiring plan for Software Engineers

  • Vet engineering candidates

  • Coaching for engineering leadership


Other value props

  • I can be your interim Head of Engineering while we look for right candidate

  • Keep your CTO focused on technical challenges while I focus on management

  • My long tenures give unique insight on long-term decision-making

  • I can give you candid, actionable feedback that your coworkers won't