Sheet 03 · Portfolio

Products I've built.

Before you trust someone with your product, it helps to see their work. These projects include companies I've founded, open-source software I've contributed to, and the product team I led at Datadog.

Timber acquired by DatadogFeb 2021
Observability Pipelines team led15 people
Vector core contributor4+ years
Newest launchUplevel, 2026
Selected work

The product, and my part in it.

Some of this work was mine from the first line of code. Some was a team effort. Here's what each product does and where I was involved.

Project 01 · Real estate platformNew · 2026

Uplevel

From a property listing to a buyer conversation.

Role
Founder, CTO, builder
Stack
Rust, PostgreSQL, TypeScript
Status
New for 2026
uplevelre.com ↗

Real estate agents need to get listings in front of buyers and follow up when someone shows interest. Uplevel brings property listing data, campaigns and contacts together so agents can manage that work in one place.

As founder and CTO, I built the product end to end in Rust, PostgreSQL and TypeScript. It's an example of the work I take on for founders: turning a business workflow into a product, from the data underneath to the screens people use.

Project 02 · Email marketingNew · 2026

Howdy

Email marketing with a choice of delivery provider.

Role
Founder, CTO, builder
Stack
C# on .NET, TypeScript
Scale
Lists of millions of recipients

Howdy lets teams create campaigns and manage lists of millions of recipients. They can connect different email delivery providers while keeping their campaigns and contact lists in the same application.

I founded and built Howdy, using C# on .NET for the application and delivery engines, and TypeScript for the interface. Separating campaign management from delivery gives customers a choice about how their mail is sent.

howdy.app ↗
Project 03 · Observability

Observability Pipelines

Tools for managing observability data, built on Vector.

Role
Senior engineer, then engineering manager
Tenure
From February 2021 · 4 years
Team
15 people

After Datadog acquired Timber in February 2021, I joined as a senior engineer and later became engineering manager of the Observability Pipelines team. The product builds on Vector to help teams manage the data they use to understand their systems.

During my four years at Datadog, I led a team of fifteen. My work included the backend API, dashboards, architectural choices and many of the product decisions. That experience informs how I plan a product for both its first release and the team that will maintain it.

Observability Pipelines at Datadog ↗
Project 04 · Open source

Vector

Open-source software for collecting and routing system data.

Role
One of the first five team members
Contribution
Core contributor, 4+ years
Built
Backend GraphQL API, instance observability
Stack
Rust, GraphQL

I was one of the first five people on the Vector team. The software collects, transforms and routes the data teams use to monitor their systems. Over more than four years as a core contributor, I built its GraphQL backend API and the tools for understanding what a running Vector instance was doing.

That work helped form the foundation of the enterprise product at Datadog. Vector is open source, so you can explore the project and its code.

github.com/vectordotdev/vector ↗
Project 05 · Logging platform

Timber Technologies

The company behind Vector, acquired by Datadog.

Role
Engineer, project lead
Led
Greenfield log product on Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Stack
Go, TypeScript
Exit
Acquired by Datadog, February 2021

At Timber, I worked on the admin area and dashboards for its logging platform. I also led a new logging product built in Go and TypeScript, using Amazon CloudWatch Logs for storage.

Alongside the engineering work, I led many of the discussions with Datadog ahead of its acquisition of Timber in February 2021. I then joined Datadog to continue building on that work.

timber.io, now vector.dev ↗
Project 06 · Real estate platformAcquired · 2021

Naberly

Architecture for a US real estate platform.

My work
Full-stack architecture
Acquirer
intelliAgent, a Fathom Holdings subsidiary
Acquired
March 2021
Fathom announcement ↗

Before building Uplevel, I designed the full-stack architecture for Naberly, a US real estate platform.

Fathom Holdings' subsidiary intelliAgent acquired the platform in March 2021, with plans to use its technology to support agents and build a national real estate portal.

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