I'm a founder and investor based in New York. I've lived in Seattle, Buenos Aires, and Los Angeles. I've spent over 20 years building products and leading engineering teams, from startups to public companies.
Current
Founder & CEO, Cowboy (2025 - ) Building the OS for AI agents: an open, agentic operating system built on a Python-native L1. An Uncommon Projects incubation.
Partner, Uncommon Projects (2020 - )
Seed-stage fund focused on early-stage startups. Investors in Granola, Captions, Photoroom, BeReal, and many others.
Adjunct Professor / Course Director, Harvard Medical School (Fall 2026) Co-teaching a class on startup innovation focused on new technologies in healthcare, product ideation, fundraising, and operations.
Experience
CEO, Unusual Circumstances / Sitch (2023 - 2025) Built AI-powered matchmaking. Raised $9M to help people find meaningful connections.
VP Engineering, Uniswap Labs (2022 - 2023) Led engineering for the largest decentralized exchange.
Senior Director of Engineering, Snap Inc. (2016 - 2022) Led engineers across multiple product areas at Snapchat, from Security to Messaging, Memories, Snap Kit, Creative Tools and Music.
CTO, Whisper App (2012 - 2016) Built and scaled the most popular anonymous social network.
Founder & CEO, Inaka (2008 - 2014) Founded mobile and Erlang development consultancy. Acquired by Erlang Solutions.
VP of Product, Visto / Good Technology / BlackBerry (2004 - 2007) Early mobile infrastructure work before smartphones took over.
Software Developer, Microsoft (1997 - 2000) Started my career working at Visual Studio (C#, VB.Net).
Other
Board Member, 826LA (2020 - 2023) Nonprofit supporting students with creative and expository writing skills.
About
- Private Pilot
- Fluent in Spanish
- BS Computer Science, Auburn University, 1997