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I'm an AI & Automation addict!

Welcome to my profile! I’m the Head of GMs at Leland and a former consultant at Boston Consulting Group. I work on growth and operations and spend much of my time building automation that removes manual work from our team’s day-to-day processes. At Leland, I built an AI-powered email pipeline that fully manages inbound messages. The system classifies emails, drafts replies, and routes them to the right teammates through Slack. I’ve also helped design automated sales workflows that support lead qualification and customer communication for our bootcamp business. My perspective comes from building these systems as a non-technical operator. If you’re a founder or business professional who wants to start using tools like Claude and workflow automation platforms to reduce manual work, I’d be happy to share what I’ve learned.

Welcome to my profile! My background spans building Ed-tech startups and running educational programs at industry leaders in the technical training space. I specialize in helping founders and professionals harness AI tools to elevate their careers. My experience includes running workshops and creating educational content to cohorts of professionals looking to apply AI to their roles. Additionally, as an Author at Pluralsight, I develop courses on AI for Design and Software Development, and coach dozens of aspiring authors. I'm passionate about guiding you through your AI journey. Let's connect and explore how I can help you achieve your goals!

I help people and teams build with AI — from first prototype to production. I've spent a decade building AI at companies like Amazon, Uber, and a Y Combinator startup I co-founded as CTO. My edge: I don't just use AI tools, I train the models underneath them — LLMs, text-to-video, voice — so I can teach you how these systems actually work, not just which buttons to press. Some things I've built: AI voice agents that automated thousands of business phone calls per month (taken from an empty repo to paying enterprise customers), the post-training behind user-facing video-generation features like Pikaffects, and today, the reinforcement learning behind code-generation models — the kind that power tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. Here's what we can do together: build LLM apps, chatbots, AI agents, and RAG pipelines; set up AI automations and workflow automation that remove manual work; master prompt engineering and get real leverage from ChatGPT, Claude, and agent coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor; go deeper with fine-tuning and open-source models (Hugging Face) when off-the-shelf isn't enough; and pressure-test your stack and architecture before mistakes get expensive. And because I teach from the model up, what you learn stays useful as the tools and models keep changing. Whether you're a founder building an AI startup, an engineer adding AI to your product, or a non-technical builder starting from no-code tools — tell me what you want to build, and let's ship it.

I’m the founder an AI consulting and implementation firm that helps businesses identify where AI can create real value and then builds the systems to make it happen. I work directly with business owners and teams to diagnose operational problems and turn the right opportunities into working agents, automations, applications, and integrated workflows. I’ve built and shipped AI systems across a variety of industries: • A vision AI tool that reduced quote times aerospace maintenance and repair • Automated sales and marketing outreach that's generated a millions in revenue pipeline • Lead intake, qualification, and responder agents in real estate, healthcare, and home services • System-wide agentic systems that span CRM, Project Management, and accounting • Model training for a music education technology startup I’ve also helped teams evaluate models, prototype new AI products, and turn ideas that started on a whiteboard into systems running in production. My perspective is also shaped by 15 years of helping organizations adopt new processes and technology. That’s why I tend to start with how the business actually works rather than with an AI tool. The technology matters, but the real test is whether the solution improves the business and whether the people doing the work actually use it.

Welcome to my profile! As an AI Automation Expert and AI Research and Development Specialist, I have a wealth of experience in helping tech teams enhance productivity through innovative AI solutions. With a background in developing AI-based products and integrating automation into existing workflows, I've successfully coached over 100 individuals to leverage AI tools for maximum efficiency. My expertise spans from creating technical content and conducting workshops to guiding companies in adopting AI technologies seamlessly. If you're looking to optimize your processes and harness the power of AI, let's connect and explore how I can assist you in achieving your goals!

I'm a first adopter of AI tools. I'm an investor and a startup founder with exclusive access to some of the earliest builders in the space. And I have a really bad sleeping habit and addiction to Twitter. All of that means that when you have a conversation with me about AI, I guarantee that we will bring you to an understanding at a foundational level about whatever you're trying to achieve and bring you to an advanced mastery that will last moving forward. Whether you want to... get better use out of chat applications, understand how to use agent tooling like Claude Code or Codex CLI, build your own agents with a framework like Mastra, understand whether a product like OpenClaw is just hype... or if you want to dig into your specific workflows, either in your personal life or for professional productivity, we can cover it all. Whenever I coach or teach about AI, I talk about all of our strategies and tactics being both portable and durable. Portable in that they don't require being tied down to any given tool but work as the tools change, and durable in that they're strategies and understanding that will last as models update and products evolve.

I've spent the last several years working hands-on with AI at AWS and Poolside, where I helped enterprises take foundation models from experimentation into production. At Poolside, I identified the opportunity for sovereign AI in early 2025, built the first on-prem prototype myself, and went on to lead the resulting product line across product strategy, engineering, deployment, and customer delivery. We grew it to ~$3M ARR and 40+ deployments, including highly secure government environments. I also build with AI extensively outside of work. I built Pinpoint Alpha, an AI-powered market analytics SaaS with 12 production Python pipelines, and Keel, an open-source agent harness focused on secure and governed agent execution. I can help with everything from figuring out where AI actually adds value to LLM APIs, agents, RAG, evals, prompting, cloud architecture, AI-assisted coding, and getting an idea from a blank page to a working product.

I am an AI Automation and Implementation expert and the lead curriculum developer for Leland's AI Builder Program. I have personally trained hundreds of people on AI. I can help you build an AI system in Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini that will run your personal life and make you money in your business. I've trained groups of 100+ business professionals, MBA students, and job seekers on exactly what AI is, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to use it more powerfully. I know how to take this complex technology and simplify it to understandable concepts and actionable builds that will help you feel confident that you can master AI. Let me help you get caught up on AI and using it effectively today!

Welcome to my profile! With extensive experience in talent acquisition and a deep understanding of AI and machine learning, I am well-equipped to guide you through the complexities of building with AI. My background includes roles at top companies like a16z, Meta, Intuit, and Zoom, where I specialized in recruiting and developing AI talent. As the Principal at Hollestelle Holdings, I have partnered with industry leaders such as Allstate, Cisco, and RingCentral to create tailored growth strategies. I am currently pursuing a Master's degree in coaching to further enhance my ability to support your journey. Let's connect and explore how I can help you achieve your AI ambitions!