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

Writing

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.

Breckenridge, Colorado

Murren, Switzerland

Vail, Colorado

Interlaken, Switzerland

Whistler Village, British Columbia

Keystone, Colorado

Breckenridge, Colorado

Ascutney, Vermont

Murren, Switzerland

Park City, Utah

Stowe, Vermont

Camel's Hump, Vermont

Breckenridge, Colorado

Whistler, British Columbia