Now

I'm currently a Director of Engineering for the payroll product at Humi.

Side Product:

• I'm writing an Open Source book called: Kubernetes The Fun Way
• I teach remote skills at various organizatons with buildingremoteteams.com

What I Love To Do

I bring together cross functional teams that are just starting (or need a reboot) and launch products/businesses that create measurable value for the company. Once things are established, I put a team in place to grow it further so I can do it all over again. :D

What I've Done

• Engineering Manager at Zapier building incredible internal solutions for complicated data problems.
• As CTO at Triage.com - Lead a team of 13 full-stack engineers, data scientists, and product managers to launch the first free AI based dermatologist. It has since been used over 500k times.
• As co-founder and VP Product/Business Development at Aerial.ai, I designed a product and business model from a technical paper, and landed $120k of POC contracts with Amazon, Samsung, iRobot, Sony and more within 6 months.
• (Exit) As co-founder of Willowbee.ca - Designed and built the most advanced Canadian “will and testament” application in Canada, launching the marketing campaign, resulting in an acquisition a year later.
• A founder of GalasAtHome.com - Started a livestreaming agency from scratch that generated $200k in 10 months and I spent only 15 hours a week on it.
• I teach Remote Skills on the O'Reilly Learning Platform

Previous Consulting

• The Remote CTO - I worked with founders and teams all over the world to get their products back on track.
• Building Remote Teams - Helping teams hire remote teams while building a healthy team culture

Podcasts

• Building Remote Teams Podcast - A podcast for founders on how to build remote teams… with less drama. I started this BEFORE Covid and BEFORE remote was cool.
• Built in A Day Podcast (inactive)Jevin Maltais and Joe Mellin are two experts in quickly determining if startup ideas are destined for success or abject failure. Now they turn their powers towards your idea! Listeners submit ideas they are working on and in each episode an idea is tested!