The work
I build the function
that didn’t exist yet.
My career has been a steady climb up the technical ladder: support, then solutions engineering, then building enablement functions from scratch. The through-line is the “from scratch” muscle. I keep walking into rooms where the function doesn’t exist, and building it.
Technical Support → API Support → Solutions Engineering → Strategic SE → Technical Enablement → Sales Engineering
Where I’ve done it
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PlayerZero
early-stage startupSales Engineer
Technical pre-sales at an early-stage startup — which means wearing every hat: demos, POCs, solution architecture, competitive positioning, and whatever the deal needs that day. The build-it-as-you-go room I do my best work in, and easily the most fun I’ve had doing it.
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Docker
GTM orgTechnical Enablement
Enablement for the whole go-to-market org — AEs, BDRs, SEs, TAMs, implementation engineers. Launch readiness, training, competitive intel, onboarding, and AI-governance / security-and-compliance enablement.
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Finch
Solutions Engineering
Technical pre-sales and the bridge between what engineering built and what the field needed to say about it.
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Sauce Labs
Strategic Solutions Engineering
Deeper technical sales motion — translating dense technical material into something a revenue org could actually use.
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HelloSign
later acquired by DropboxSolutions & API Support → SE
A favorite chapter. Grew from API support into solutions engineering as the company scaled toward acquisition.
Things I build for fun
- AI-agent tinkering: a Gmail triage agent and an Instagram content agent for my triathlon coaching.
- This site — built with a Claude Code instance running in Docker Sandboxes. Meta, and on-brand.