Cloud | Mobile | Edge

About

What I Build

Microsoft Azure MVP and software architect building edge and hybrid cloud demos across Azure, AWS, and local infrastructure. As a Microsoft Azure MVP, I build practical edge and hybrid cloud demos that run across Azure, AWS, and local private cloud infrastructure. My basement lab combines custom Tenstorrent servers with NVIDIA-enabled and general-purpose systems so I can test the same workload across multiple deployment paths. I focus on reusable architecture patterns, especially event-driven edge inference and cloud feedback loops. I also share these patterns through conference talks, community sessions, and hands-on demo walkthroughs.

How I Got Here

I have spent nearly two decades in technology, but I did not start in software. I studied physics and joined an autonomous underwater vehicle team in my final year, where I was asked to model sonar behavior and then help implement the controller code in C. That shift from mathematical modeling to shipped software changed my career direction. I started at a solar power installer working on web pages and batch jobs, moved into insurance building a rating engine, then spent a decade in consulting across mobile, web, services, cloud, and IoT, including six years running my own practice under QiMata Technologies and a stretch authoring Azure courses for Pluralsight. After a run as CEO of a healthcare technology startup, I returned to EPAM Systems, where I now lead enterprise strategy and modernization programs across Microsoft cloud, data, AI, and edge platforms. The lab work on this site is where those platforms get proven before they show up in a customer architecture.

Experience

  • Principal Consultant, EPAM Systems (2024 to present)

  • Chief Executive Officer, Total Wellness Innovation (2023 to 2024)

  • Principal Consultant, EPAM Systems (2019 to 2023)

  • Author, Pluralsight (2018 to 2021)

  • Independent Consultant, QiMata Technologies LLC (2015 to 2021)

  • Senior Consultant, Magenic (2012 to 2015)

  • Software Engineer, Infinity Insurance (2011 to 2012)

  • Application Developer, Cardinal Energy (2009 to 2011)

Life Outside the Lab

My wife has been steady support through every late-night build, outage drill, and camera test in the lab. She keeps me grounded and reminds me to enjoy the process, not just the outcome. Shadow, our dog, is the unofficial lab companion and quality-control supervisor during recording and deployment days. The pace of this work is possible because home is a place of support, patience, and humor.

Shadow resting in the lab space Shadow resting in the lab while I tune another demo pipeline.

Shadow waiting for a snack near the kitchen Shadow making sure no snack break gets skipped.

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Last updated: September 25, 2026