I'm a founder, engineer, and developer relations executive. I spent eight years as a leader in Twilio's dev rel organization, ultimately helming it as VP. After a sabbatical, I dove deep into AI as an engineer. I built a handful of product concepts and sold one. In 2025 I spun up Implausible AI: hands-on AI coding bootcamps for execs.
I've spent the last 18 months learning about AI by building various product concepts. Some were relatively simple, like a screen time ranking service. Others were more complex, like my privacy-forward inbox-based AI agent which used only local models.
The most successful was BetterSeat, a consumer AI agent travelers use to get the best possible seat on their next flight. Building a browser-based consumer agent which interacts with third parties was fascinating - marketing a travel product, less so. I sold BetterSeat in early 2025.
This summer I started Implausible AI, my consulting business focused on hands-on AI coding bootcamps for execs and investors. I began publishing a weekly newsletter too, with original analysis.
Along the way I spoke at DevRelCon NYC about how the developer PLG playbook is evolving. I also regularly volunteer at my favorite SF meetup, AI Tinkerers.
Throughout my eight-year tenure I helped Twilio 20x its developer community, growing from 600k to over 12 million. That fueled Twilio's growth from $167 million to $4.15 billion in annual revenue.
As leader for Twilio's Developer Education and Developer Enablement orgs, my earlier work at Twilio focused on the adoption and implementation phases of a developer's journey.
Highlights include: building our automation-forward docs infrastructure; launching and scaling Superclass (Twilio's first-party training program) and TwilioQuest (gamified training platform); founding a skunkworks program which launched v1.0 of Twilio's CLI; sending code submitted by the Twilio developer community to space; crafting and delivering more live demos than I can remember
I started my career at Accenture in Washington, D.C. where I spent all day, every day writing PL/SQL scripts. I became a Python developer at my next job, leading that consultancy's Python practice while also organizing the DC Django meetup.
I was an early adopter of Docker. When I realized other developers around me wanted to learn it too, I started giving talks and running workshops. After I created O'Reilly's first Docker video course, I joined Twilio as its first Developer Educator hire.
In 2019, while working at Twilio, I launched Gator: a Slack app for distributed teams which I still operate. Over 10,000 coworkers have sent 300,000 messages with Gator.
University of Virginia - B.A. Computer Science and Foreign Affairs