About

Twenty years ago I started my career on COBOL mainframes, migrating a county appraisal system — one million property records — from legacy architecture to modern code. It took five years. I learned what it means to build something that matters, under constraints that demand precision.

Since then, I've built QA departments from scratch, led distributed teams shipping mobile banking for 12 financial institutions with zero critical production issues, and created an AI-powered investigation platform that prevented $2M+ in annual fraud exposure at a major entertainment company.

Now I'm building the testing infrastructure for the AI era.

What I'm Working On

At my current role at a cybersecurity company, I created the Directive Platform — a three-component, spec-driven test engineering system that closes the loop from Jira ticket to passing test to coverage gap analysis. The signature innovation is behavioral contract testing — custom Playwright matchers that validate non-deterministic AI outputs against behavioral contracts, not exact strings.

While the industry debates "how do you test AI?" at conferences, I have expect(response).toMatchAiSchema() running in CI against live AI endpoints. 118 tests. 8 custom matchers. 25-prompt adversarial suite.

Side Projects

Echo Reborn — I built a full K-12 Learning Management System serving 63 schools and 22,000+ students. Built in ~100 days as a gift to a national education network when their commercial LMS contract was cancelled. No commercial LMS supports multi-outcome assessment — so I built one. Next.js, React, Supabase, FERPA-compliant.

CasianaAI — My own AI-native test intelligence platform. NLP engine for natural language to test generation, self-healing tests, predictive failure prevention. Named after my daughter, Casiana.

The Thread

Every role, the same move: assess the landscape, find the gap, build what doesn't exist.

• No QA department? Built one from zero.
• No AI investigation tooling? Built the platform, found $2M in fraud.
• No behavioral contract testing for AI? Invented it.
• No LMS for multi-outcome assessment? Built one for 22,000 students.

The throughline isn't QA. It's building what doesn't exist yet.

Personal

I live in Austin, TX with wife, daughter, cat and pup. I care about compounding systems, honest self-assessment, and work-life balance — not because I work less, but because I build systems that make focused hours count.