Current Role

Ripple

Customer Solutions Director   ·   New York, NY   ·   Aug 2025 – Present

I advise banks on digital-asset strategy and build the reference architectures and demos that move institutional tokenization, custody, and payments onto the XRP Ledger.

  • Advise 10+ banks across GSIB, national, and regional tiers on digital-asset strategy spanning network selection (XRPL vs. Ethereum vs. Canton), custody (self-custody vs. qualified), and key management (HSM vs. MPC).
  • Built the reference architecture for a leading asset manager's tokenized fund-of-funds POC with partner Ctrl Alt, using an XRPL Multi-Purpose Token (MPT) design to compose multiple tokens from one issuer and enable future confidentiality.
  • Proposed migrating a tokenization platform from an off-chain mirrored source of truth to an on-chain XRPL source of truth, adding permissioned domains for streamlined credential management.
  • Built 6 reusable demos on Ripple products in the Customer Solutions Exchange — an iOS app on Ripple Custody, a stablecoin / tokenized-deposit engine (Ethereum & XRPL), and a Custody-to-core-banking event-log interpreter.
  • Ran an onsite technical enablement session with a global custody bank's engineering leadership; the tokenized-deposit engine closed the demo and helped win a multi-million-dollar, 3-year deal.
  • Channel customer and partner requirements back to Ripple Product and Engineering to help shape the Ripple & XRPL institutional roadmap.
2020 – 2025

Amazon Web Services

Senior Solutions Architect   ·   New York, NY   ·   Sep 2020 – Jul 2025

Trusted technical advisor to ~20 enterprise accounts, partnering with their engineering teams to raise performance and accelerate adoption of emerging technologies — including blockchain and AI.

  • Advised ~20 enterprise accounts ($1M–$25M annual spend); partnered with engineering teams to improve system performance 5–10× and helped secure a $40M, 3-year blockchain partnership.
  • Designed and delivered 40+ developer workshops, live code demos, and reference implementations (including blockchain and NFT-marketplace builds) to accelerate enterprise adoption of emerging technologies.
  • Built private XRPL node infrastructure and agentic AI POCs that query multi-network ledger data and perform abstracted wallet operations.
  • Authored public technical publications and tutorials; reviewed 100+ customer architectures and code samples with hands-on feedback on cloud-native best practices and security.
  • Channeled developer feedback to AWS service teams, contributing to 10+ features including EBS Snapshots and Claude on Amazon Bedrock; mentored Solutions Architects and Technical Account Managers.
2016 – 2020

Travelers

Tech Lead / Developer   ·   Hartford, CT   ·   Feb 2016 – Aug 2020

Led the move from legacy financial systems to modern, event-driven API platforms — and built a developer-community habit along the way.

  • Led a team of 6 developers driving digital transformation from legacy financial systems to modern API and event-driven architectures, anchored on a partner-integration API platform handling ~70% of insurance transaction volume.
  • Organized an innovation club, developer workshops, and hackathons reaching 1,000+ participants.
Developer Evangelism & Content

Talks & Writing

A decade of growing developer ecosystems — on stage, on air, and in writing. Talks have drawn 5,000+ views on YouTube.

Speaking

Education

Quinnipiac University

MBA & BS in Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management   ·   Hamden, CT   ·   2015

  • Competitively selected for a 4+1 BS+MBA program, balancing graduate coursework throughout the undergraduate years.
  • International coursework in France, Hungary, Italy, and Switzerland, focused on working across cultures in a corporate setting.
What I do

Skills

Blockchain & Digital Assets

XRPL (xrpl.js / xrpl-py, JSON-RPC), tokenization, institutional DeFi, ETH/Solidity, custody, and key management.

AI & Applied LLMs

Agentic AI, LLMs & fine-tuning, MCP, Amazon Bedrock & SageMaker — applied to ledger data and developer tooling.

Developer Relations & Advocacy

Tech evangelism, conference speaking, workshops, hackathons, developer education, and community building.

Institutional Finance

Tokenized RWAs, stablecoins, deposits & funds, and collateral (Ripple Prime); CLARITY & GENIUS Acts.

Programming, Cloud & APIs

JavaScript/TypeScript (React, Node.js), Python, C#, AWS, serverless & event-driven architecture, REST, webhooks, WebSockets, and SDKs.

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect — Professional · SAFe Certified Scrum Master.

Off the clock

Chasing mountains

When I'm not on a ledger, I'm usually on a summit.